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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – In a move that could make it harder for its users to remain anonymous, Google said it would start combining nearly all the information it has on its users.
This could mean, for instance, that when users search via Google, the company will use their activities on sister sites like Gmail and YouTube to...
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Kids! Aren’t they adorable? Their cherubic little faces, their big dreams, their boundless energy — oh, and the way they gang up on helpless peers, kicking them in the face repeatedly while yelling racial slurs.
Such was the case in Bridgeport, a Chicago neighborhood, where six teens filmed themselves assaulting a 17-year-old...
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A mom and her boyfriend have been sentenced to life in prison…another goes on trial today.
A building that once housed a daycare center and later became a “swingers’ club” in Mineola, Texas turned into a house of horrors for four children who were forced to perform sex acts on others and each...
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Black and white twins Hayleigh and Lauren Durrant proudly hold their new sisters Leah and Miya — who incredibly are also twins with different colored skin.
Their mixed-race parents Dean Durrant and Alison Spooner repeated the miracle after a seven-year gap.
When the first set of twins arrived in 2001, the couple was...
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Women have slowly but surely made their way into the corporate world over the last few decades. Still, only 18 women are running Fortune 500 companies. These female CEOs have broken the gender barriers in business, but not without many years of hard work, rejections, and slow promotions. Here are the 10 most successful female...
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“The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama’s America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of those who have...
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Whoever it was that hit me in the back with a sledgehammer and then poured gasoline in my sinuses last night had better hide…. I have retained the services of Jack Bauer to hunt your ass down and take you out with extreme prejudice!
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The percentage of overweight children in the United States is growing at an alarming rate, with 1 out of 3 kids now considered overweight or obese.
Many kids are spending less time exercising and more time in front of the TV, computer, or video-game console. And today’s busy families have fewer free moments to prepare...
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A hermaphrodite is an organism that has reproductive organs normally associated with both male and female sexes.
If you pass Norrie on the sidewalk, you won’t be able to tell if she is a man or woman.
The 49-year-old walks through her barefoot and wearing a dress. She is flat-chested, has an Adam’s Apple,...
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‘Bloggers Beware’
That was the headline on a conservative blog following a $2.5 million judgment this month against blogger Crystal Cox in a defamation case tried in federal court in Oregon. It’s a case followed closely in both the blogosphere and in the traditional media, as it highlights the proliferation of blogging,...
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My God, whom I praise, do not remain silent, for people who are wicked and deceitful have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.
In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
They repay me...
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SAN FRANCISCO — A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets.
Out of work two years, her unemployment benefits exhausted, in danger of losing her apartment, Casey applied for a job in the pharmacy of a Boston drugstore. She was offered $11 an hour. All she had to do was pass a background check.
It turned up a 14-count...
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An Allen realtor pleaded guilty on Dec. 8 to a felony harassment charge after accessing an ex-employee’s Facebook account and using it to send insulting messages to her friends.
James Patrick Delagarza, 41, owns First Premier Realty, a real estate agency that sells homes in Allen, Anna, Frisco, Garland, McKinney and Plano. He...
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Apparently there is an app in the Apple App Store, imaginatively called “Driver’s License,” that allows users to create phony driver’s licenses for the purposes of entertaining themselves and others (because there is nothing funnier than a bogus form of ID). But at least one U.S. Senator thinks the app can be...
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I am thinking about the term ‘stalking’. It’s a word that was once used only to describe when a person physically hid in the bushes of their target stalkee, literally followed them home, went through their rubbish etc. Recently however, it has managed to nudge its way into everyday usage. Along with ‘perving’,...
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Lady Gaga may be rich as hell, but she hates paying taxes just like the rest of us.
The self-confessed tight arse says it still “hurts” to pay expensive bills and sign big cheques, despite the size of her bank balance.
During a recent appearance on Ellen, Gaga revealed that she had to get “wasted” before she...
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