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The Reportage Festival in Sydney, Australia is a well-known Vivid exhibition that displays the powerful work of some of the world's best photojournalists and documentary photographers. But this year, the New South Wales government has gotten involved by telling the curators what they can and cannot display, stirring up many photographers and anti-censorship advocates in the process. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, ...
By Eric Larson1 day ago The Westboro Baptist Church can add another group to its "hate" list: hackers. The Christian fundamentalist group, notorious for its "God Hates Fags" protests, launched a website on Monday called GodHatesOklahoma.com, just hours after a mile-wide tornado hit the town of Moore, Okla., and killed 24 people. The site didn't last long. Whatever content was originally published — ...
FitzSimmonds also told Tribbett that sex education has caused the spread of sexually transmitted diseases: "I believe that we don't recognize the causal effect between the type of sex education that we've been giving and the spread of STDs. We focus on things like abortion, cause it's a big pressure thing. I go into schools 15-20 times a year, I run a non-profit ...
Sheesh, he's actually criticizing the disaster relief funds his state has gotten and is saying the way things are set up disproportionately hurts the more populous states like NY and NJ. I guess since he's not running for a 3rd Senate term he feels okay lobbying against aid for his own state. O_o Video Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn (R) on Sunday said that the ...
Three more people were arrested Saturday in connection with last week's grisly killing of British soldier Lee Rigby, police said. The men were being held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. Police did not detail how they were allegedly tied to the killing, nor did they release their identities, saying only that the men -- ...
NATO approved their deployment to Turkey in December Jordan, which shares borders with war-torn Syria, said on Sunday it is in talks with "friendly countries" to deploy Patriot missiles on its territory after a similar move by Turkey. "Jordan wishes to deploy Patriot missile batteries in order to boost its defence capabilities and help protect the country," Information Minister Mohammad Momani told a news ...
Grant Acord will be charged as an adult and also faces 6 counts of manufacturing and possessing a destructive device A US teenager who intended to blow up his school will be charged with attempted aggravated murder after six bombs were found in his bedroom, a prosecutor said late Saturday. Grant Acord, 17, planned to attack his school in Oregon in a plot "forged ...
(Reuters) - Depending on your point of view, U.S. General Keith Alexander is either an Army four-star trying to stave off a cyber Pearl Harbor attack, or an overreaching spy chief who wants to eavesdrop on the private emails of every American. Alexander, 61, has headed the National Security Agency since 2005, making him the longest-serving chief in the history of an intelligence ...
Meet Extreme GOP candidate for Governor of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli's dream running mate: Extreme GOP candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia, E.W. Jackson.
Nora Eisenberg: "...It goes by different names — Burn Pit disease, Gulf War 2 Syndrome, Iraq and Afghanistan War Lung Injury, Post-Deployment Illness — but what veterans and contract workers who have it, and the small cadre of physician-scientists dedicated to understanding and treating it, agree on is that, like Gulf War Illness, its cause is wartime toxic exposure. An inhalational injury, it attacks ...
Yesterday, Sen. Vitter of Louisiana offered up an amendment to permanently drop anyone ever convicted of a violent crime from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Democrats in the Senate obliged him. The amendment is for a farm bill, which is currently being debated in the Senate. Says Greenstein: The ...
Two rockets hit Hizbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut yesterday, marking a dangerous new phase in Syria's civil war. The attack on the Beirut suburb of Chiyah was limited in scale - four Syrian labourers were wounded and some windows were smashed - but its implications could be far reaching. It was the first time the Hizbollah-dominated area has been attacked, sparking fears that ...
Here's a photo of the rapids above the American Falls. I used an extreme f-stop and the dim morning light to slow the shutter which created the effect of the wood in perfect clarity while the water has a dreamy motion blur.
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And the Republican field is likely to keep growing: state Sen. Joni Ernst, Secretary of State Matt Schultz and Iowa GOP Chairman A.J. Spiker have expressed interest in the race. Mark Jacobs, a wealthy former oil executive who heads an education nonprofit, has also popped up at local GOP events in recent weeks and met with the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Democrats, meanwhile, ...
Nice, right? Anyway, here's my thesis: Raiders of the Lost Ark is not an action-adventure movie about an archaeologist who plays by his own rules and saves the day. Instead, the film is an exploration of Marion Ravenwood's crippling drug addiction. An addiction that was born from her unhealthy relationship and continued association with Indiana Jones. Is it true? Who cares. Can I prove ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) brushed away a question about Latinos working in his administration during a roundtable discussion at The Union League in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday, telling the moderator, "If you can find us one let me know": MODERATOR: Do you have staff members that are Latino? CORBETT: No, we do not have any staff members in there. If you can ...
More: $40 for Case of Bottled Water? 'Preying' on Oklahoma Tornado Victims Investigators with the Oklahoma Attorney General's office have already uncovered evidence of businesses taking advantage of the recent tornado's devastation by price-gouging in the weather-ravaged region, including a grocery store accused of charging consumers $40 for a case of water. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt told ABC News that 30 investigators from ...
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