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Rand Paul denounces 'new entitlements' in emerging health bill...
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Paul denounced as “new entitlements” two core elements of the Republican bill in both the House and Senate: a refundable tax credit to help people buy insurance and a “stabilization fund” of money to help bring down premiums.

10 High-Paying Blue-Collar Jobs...
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We often associate big paychecks with business suits or if you work in tech t-shirts and hoodies. But many blue-collar workers earn lofty salaries. Forbes looked at U.S. BLS data to identify 10 lucrative blue-collar positions, and we excluded any manage

2 Top Newspaper Stocks to Buy in 2017...
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As print circulation declines, these two newspaper stocks are executing their digital strategies well.

Political Disorder Syndrome - "Refusal To Reason Is The New Normal"...
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Authored by Daniel Henninger, op-ed via The Wall Street Journal, Public Theater should cancel its Trump assassination play... But it won’t. James T. Hodgkinson, who on Wednesday shot Republican Rep. Steve Scalise and four others, posted this on his

$13K DIY electric car made from recycled parts has 380+ mile range...
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In a bid to highlight what he calls "hybrid recycling," Eric Lundgren converted a '97 BMW into an electric car that has a longer driving range than the Tesla Model S P100D.

Human Brain Discovered to Operate in 11 Dimensions --"Multiverse-Like Structures a World We Never Imagined”...
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"We found a world that we had never imagined, said Henry Markram, director of Blue Brain Project. "There are tens of millions of these objects even in a small speck of the brain, up through seven dimensions. In some networks,...   

These 25 Billion Galaxies are Definitely Living in a Simulation...
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A team of astrophysicists from UZH has simulated the formation of the entire Universe, producing a catalog that will help unlock the secrets of the "Dark Universe". The post These 25 Billion Galaxies are Definitely Living in a Simulation appeared first on

How to backup life on Earth ahead of any doomsday event...
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It's happened before: why we need to plan for the next doomsday event that could wipe out much of life on Earth. Shutterstock/solarsevenThere are ten asteroids that the space organisation NASA said this month have been been classified as potentially h

Where cigarette smoking's damage is done... down to your DNA...
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Scientists have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes DNA damage, which leads to lung cancer. Now, for the first time, scientists created a method for effectively mapping that DNA damage at high resolution across the genome.

Bats are global reservoir for deadly coronaviruses...
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Finding could help researchers to better predict where these viruses are likely to make the jump from animals to people.

10 most exciting PC games spotted at the PC Gaming Show 2017...
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This year's PC Gaming Show featured games from triple-A giants to finely-tuned indie darlings ready to dazzle.

Gates Foundation commits up to $300 million to global polio eradication effort...
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Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates announced Monday that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged up to $300 million towards a three-year effort to fully eradicate polio around the world. The announcement came at the Rotary Internati

Ataribox Teaser Could Be for Atari's Next Console; No E3 2017 Reveal...
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Ataribox teaser may hint at Atari returning to the console market.

We are LESS than two decades away from finding alien life, expert says...
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According to astronomer Chris Impey, scientists are likely on the verge of detecting microbes on another planet, with candidates such as Europa thought to contain some of the ingredients. He suggests the chance of finding intelligent life soon is highly unlikely

Putin says Kremlin critic McCain 'lives in Old World'...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), known for his anti-Kremlin rhetoric, lives in the "Old World" and that Russia and the United States must work together on common challenges.

McCain says his confusing questions resulted from tiredness...
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Sen. John McCain suggests he was tired when he questioned fired FBI director James Comey, a performance that lit up Twitter and other social media sites with unsparing criticism.

5 Trends That Are Destroying The Middle Class In America...
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Authored by Michael Snyder via The American Dream blog, The middle class in America has been shrinking for decades, and our leaders seem powerless to do anything about it. Two years ago, the middle class became a minority in this country for the first tim

Putin on Russia Conspiracy Theories: ‘Have You All Lost Your Senses over There?”...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin mocked conspiracy theories linking President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and his own government, asking NBC News' Megan Kelly whether Americans had "all lost your senses over there."

Putin gives new election-hacking theory during Megyn Kellys NBC debut...
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In an interview with Megyn Kelly, Vladimir Putin again denied meddling in the 2016 presidential election and peddled the conspiracy theory it was really the work of the US intelligence community. “There’s a theory that Kennedy’s assassin

In Ramadan Massacre, Egyptian Christians Killed for Refusing to Renounce Their Faith in Jesus...
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As more and more details emerge concerning Friday’s Ramadan attack on a busload of Christians on pilgrimage, the more it becomes evident that these 29 martyrs died solely because they were Christians.

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