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Life expectancy in US down for second year in a row as opioid crisis deepens
Life expectancy in the US has declined for the second year in a row as the opioid crisis continues to ravage the nation. It is the first time in half a century that there have been two consecutive years of declining life expectancy. Drug overdoses killed ...[Read more]
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The Year the Open Internet Came Under Siege: 2017 Year in Review
The fight between the Federal Communications Commission’s choice to abandon the principles of net neutrality and the majority of Americans started early in 2017 and continued into the very last month of the year. But even with the FCC’s bad vote ...[Read more]
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China: US Has No Right to Act as Human-Rights Judge
Chinese officials have slammed the U.S. Treasury Department for sanctioning public security official Gao Yan, insisting that the United States has no right to act as a "human-rights judge." ...[Read more]
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How the US Swindled Russia in the Early 1990s
Due to a historic data-dump on December 10th, the biggest swindle that occurred in the 20th Century (or perhaps ever) is now proven as a historical fact; and this swindle was done by the US Government, against the Government and people of Russia, and it c ...[Read more]
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A Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted
Federal officials on Tuesday ended a moratorium imposed three years ago on funding research that alters germs to make them more lethal. Such work can now proceed, said Dr. Francis S. Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, but only if a sc ...[Read more]
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State of Fear: How History’s Deadliest Bombing Campaign Created Today’s Crisis in Korea
As the world watches with mounting concern the growing tensions and bellicose rhetoric between the United States and North Korea, one of the most remarkable aspects of the situation is the absence of any public acknowledgement of the underlying reason for ...[Read more]
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Tongue-in-Cheek Memes Quick to Follow Revelations Over US Undercover UFO Program
It emerged the other day that the Pentagon, following directives of the US Congress, launched a decade ago an off-the-books investigation into “unidentified aerial phenomena,” commonly referred to as UFOs, according to media reports. ...[Read more]
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Trump had fewer deportations than Obama’s first year
Despite President Trump's tough-on-immigration rhetoric, there were around 177,000 fewer deportations this year than in 2009, Obama's first year in office. That number is lower than any year during Obama's presidency, according to Immigration and Customs ...[Read more]
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$200bn to reconstruct war-torn Syria – the US and its partners should pay
With Syria’s nearly seven-year war now virtually over, the process of rebuilding the devastated country comes to the fore, with the financial cost of that effort put at $200 billion. Who pays for it? ...[Read more]
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Trump to Putin: US was glad to save many lives in Russia by helping foil major terrorist attack
The White House says President Donald Trump and the intelligence services were pleased to have helped thwart a terrorist plot in Russia that “could have killed large numbers of people.” “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia called President Donald ...[Read more]
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US Training New Militants to Counter Russia in Syria
US instructors are training new military formations in the Syrian province of Al Hasakah in order to counter Russia, first Deputy Chairman of the Russian upper house Committee on Defense and Security Frants Klintsevich said Saturday. ...[Read more]
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