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Lawyer: Florida Owes Zimmerman $300K 27 Aug 2013 | 01:33 pm
Looks like George Zimmerman has taken time out from visiting gun factories and speeding in Texas to take care of more legal business: He plans to ask the state of Florida to reimburse him for up to $3...
Hedge Fund Chief Dumps JCPenney for $490M Loss 27 Aug 2013 | 01:02 pm
After buying a huge stake in JCPenney and backing a disastrous revamp that has left the chain floundering, Bill Ackman has decided he's done with the company. The Pershing Square hedge fund Ackman run...
Russian Lawmaker: Ban Gays From Giving Blood 27 Aug 2013 | 12:39 pm
As a follow-up to Russia's internationally condemned anti-gay law, a senior lawmaker wants to bring back the country's ban on gay people giving blood. Mikhail Dyegtyaryov says the move would help stem...
Missing 'Into the Wild' Teen Found Dead 27 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
The father of an Arizona teenager whose body was found yesterday evening near his abandoned SUV in the woods of southern Oregon says his son was "a young man who had a broken heart." The body of Johna...
Russia Meteor Had Steamy Past 27 Aug 2013 | 11:39 am
The colossal meteor that exploded over Russia earlier this year had been with other celestial bodies before, scientists say. Analysis of fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor—the biggest to hit Earth in...
Anti-Vaccine Megachurch at Heart of Measles Outbreak 27 Aug 2013 | 11:17 am
A Texas megachurch whose founder has linked vaccines to autism is now hosting vaccination clinics after being linked to at least 21 cases of measles. The outbreak began when a person who was infected ...
3 New Mexico Counties Now Have Gay Marriage 27 Aug 2013 | 05:43 am
An Albuquerque judge has ordered the clerk of New Mexico's most populous county, Bernalillo County, to begin issuing marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples, ruling today that New Mexico's const...
Every Student Fails Liberian College Admission Exam 27 Aug 2013 | 05:15 am
There will be no new students at the University of Liberia next year. That's because every single student who took the admission test—all 25,000 of them—failed the exam, the BBC reports. University sp...
Why Big Tobacco Is Getting Hooked on E-Cigs 27 Aug 2013 | 04:49 am
The American e-cigarette business is booming: It's expected to make more than $1 billion this year, and sales are projected to overtake those of real cigarettes by 2047. Big tobacco is probably fine w...
US Needs to Dump Its Entire Terrible Education System 26 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm
People talk a lot about how to fix our educational system—but the only real answer is to get rid of it, or at least its traditional components, writes research professor Peter Gray on Salon . Gray, an...
