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 The witty and acerbic Rachel Maddow turns her analysis towards the unending growth of the national security state in the US.
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 Putting U.S. military forces into law enforcement roles is against the letter and spirit of Posse Comitatus, which prohibited the use of military force for law enforcement.
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 The Florida ACLU says separate schooling for boys and girls is in violation of federal and state law.
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 In a high-risk situation, Australia's options are to align with the U.S. and thus accept military burdens, or commit to Asia (viz. China).
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 Special forces operators can learn lessons learned by the ancient Greeks, from nearly 4,000 years ago.
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 Poor sanitation infrastructure, coupled with under-regulated anti-biotics, makes India a veritable crucible of drug-resistant bacteria.
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 Mongolia claims the fossil was stolen and wants it returned.
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 Claims T-Rex fossil may have been illegally smuggled from Mongolia.
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 Drawing a line connecting Elizabethan England to Obama's America: Faith vrs the Sovereign State.
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 The largest and fastest-growing 'minority' group in the U.S. remains the Hispanic community. It registered an increase of 3.1 percent since 2010.
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 A study of more than 1,500 years of tree-ring data and hundreds of years of fire-scar records were gathered from Ponderosa pine forests in a study.
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 Abri Castanet might contain the earliest wall art ever discovered, a new study suggests.
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 Sulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of Sweden.
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 Sixty-four years ago this week, Israel at last became an independent country after thousands of years. While it was lionized by the U.S. press of the day, does its reputation still stand?
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 Foreign interests are involved in a hydro-electric project in the highlands of Guatemala. Indigenous people of the region have risen up against it, pitting them against a government with a history of violence.
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 Today marks the day that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, dedicated a church at Nowa Huta despite opposition from the erstwhile Communist government and its Soviet masters. President Obama should take heed.
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 A cooperative venture involving Spain, Portugal and their former colonies plans on providing solar panels and computers to 80,000 schools in Latin America.
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 Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who are now fervent supporters of Barack Obama, once belonged to the notorious domestic terrorist group known as The Weathermen.
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 Responding to the threat posed to the Great Lakes by non-native fish, Big 10 rivals University of Michigan and Michigan State are joining forces to create breeding grounds for native fish such as sturgeon and walleye.
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The new species lived from 2 to 4 million years ago in Kenya
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First radiocarbon dates for unusual jar and log coffin interments on exposed ledges
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 GW anthropology professor Jeffrey Blomster's research featured in PNAS journal.
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 Research reconciles competing theories about the origin of the domestic horse.
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 George Jewett was a pioneer, perhaps without knowing it, in 1890s Michigan. Resisting racism, he excelled on the playing field and life.
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 A Chinese diplomat, inspired by Christian teachings, defied his superiors to give visas to Jews who otherwise would have been exterminated.
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Deep sediments are unparalleled record of biotic changes over past 200,000+ years
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Interdisciplinary work yields new, easier, less destructive way to examine diets of ancient peoples by using dental calculus
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 Just 200 years after the heroic and fatal stand of Leonidas and his 300 Spartans against an onslaught from Persia, Greece would again face down invaders bent on destruction.
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Wales praised 'Pacem in Terris' as a "great thing" and "in tune with modern thinking."
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