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Adios, Gabo
(Photo: 1964, Mexico City: The author, Sergio Munoz, at bottom left; Gabriel Garcia Marquez second from right; Carlos Fuentes back row right). Gabriel García Márquez, the leading Spanish language...
View ArticleMexico Earthquake 2014: Strong Quake Rattles Capital
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Friday. The U.S. Geological Survey calculated its magnitude at 7.5 and said it was centered near the Pacific resort of...
View ArticleNew MRSA Superbug Emerges In Brazilian Patient
By Bahar Gholipour, Staff Writer Published: 04/17/2014 02:15 PM EDT on LiveScience A new, highly drug-resistant type of the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) recently caused a...
View ArticleThese 13 People Were Killed By The War On Drugs. Their Lives Were The Cost Of...
This story was first published in April 2013. America's long drug war has produced countless tragedies, ruined lives and led to parentless children, as well as the deaths of drug warriors, nonviolent...
View ArticleHere's Everything You Need To Know About Why We Celebrate Weed On 4/20
This article was originally published on April 20, 2009, and has been reposted each year since. Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist, routinely plays with the surviving members of the...
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Assad and His Friends Brag About Winning
Reuters TV/Reuters Three years, 150,000 deaths, and 9 million Syrian refugees later, is the civil war in Syria starting to turn a corner? Bashar al-Assad and Hassan Nasrallah, his buddy in Lebanon who...
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Britain's Youngest Parents Are 12 And 13 Years Old
A 13-year-old and his 12-year-old girlfriend have reportedly become Britain's youngest parents. The Sun reports that the baby, who was born last weekend, was conceived last summer when the girl was...
View Article13th Body Pulled From Snow In Everest Avalanche
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of...
View ArticleTranscending Complacency on Superintelligent Machines
As the Hollywood blockbuster Transcendence debuts this weekend with Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman and clashing visions for the future of humanity, it's tempting to dismiss the notion of highly...
View ArticleUkraine Calls 'Easter Truce' As Washington Urges Moscow To Rein In Separatists
By Pavel Polityuk and Aleksandar Vasovic KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine, April 19 (Reuters) - The Ukrainian government said it will not attack pro-Russian separatists over the Easter weekend as its U.S. ally...
View ArticleWhite House Threatens New Sanctions, Russia Says U.S. Treating Moscow Like...
SLAVIANSK/DONETSK, Ukraine, April 18 (Reuters) - A day after an international deal in Geneva to defuse the East-West crisis in Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists vowed not to end their occupation of...
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Kate Middleton Accessorizes Her Blue Poppy Spring Dress With A... Fighter Jet?
Kate Middleton and Prince William's royal family tour of Down Under just keeps getting better and better. The couple spent Saturday in Brisbane, Australia without Prince George in tow. Even though we...
View Article4 French Journalists Held Hostage In Syria Freed
PARIS (AP) — Four French journalists held hostage in Syria for 10 months have been released, officials said Saturday, the latest batch of reporters to be freed in what has become the world's deadliest...
View ArticleYes, A Woman Is 'Giving Birth' To A Painting In This Very NSFW Video
Oh, performance art. You never cease to amaze us. The latest instance of eye-opening art spectacle comes to us courtesy of Swiss artist Milo Moire. During this year's Art Cologne fair in Germany, she...
View ArticlePapua New Guinea Earthquake: Strong Quake Strikes Off Coast, Tsunami Warning...
SYDNEY (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck off the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The magnitude-7.5 earthquake was...
View ArticleSouth Korea Ferry Relatives Vent Outrage At Officials
JINDO, South Korea (AP) -- The informal briefing by a South Korean coast guard rescuer started calmly enough. He stood on a stage in front of relatives of those missing from a sunken ferry, explaining...
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What Type Of Pot Smoker Are You?
Like snowflakes or THC crystals*, no two pot smokers are truly the same. But even in a group as diverse as marijuana users, certain patterns do emerge. For example, does your pot use lead to endless...
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Holy Days, Blood Moon Nights And A Dragon: Week In Photos, April 13 - 20
Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this...
View ArticleGabriel García Márquez's Complicated Relationship With His Hometown
ARACATACA, Colombia (AP) — Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his homeland had a relationship as conflicted as any in the Nobel laureate's twisting and impassioned novels. Colombia inspired and dismayed Garcia...
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Clowns Without Borders Brings Its Act To Conflict Zones To Let Kids Just Be Kids
Clowns, acrobats, aerial artists and refugee camps. One of these things is not like the other. But nonprofit Clowns Without Borders is looking to upend that line of thinking. From conflict zones to...
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