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A bill that was threatened with veto has passed through the house (while attached to a defense bill) that will increase the coverage of hate crimes to include anti-gay crimes. This has been supported by Obama and will go to the senate in a few days. The question is, despite republican protests that it is attached to a defense bill, will it go through the senate and become part of the law?
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Some Somali Pirates attempted to raid a large ship they spotted. Little did they know that it was actually a French Navy Destroyer. They were captured and there fate are yet to be decided. Every year apparently out of the pirates captured only a few face trial due to legal reasons, weird.
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A couple of days ago, we discovered that Iran was hiding a second uranium enrichment plant, a place where they could make weapons grade nuclear materials. New reports suggest that they are going to send the already made uranium to Russia before the inspection. Whether they try to hide some other materials not disclosed in Geneva will be up to the Russians to tell us.
Iran agreed on Thursday in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection in the next two weeks and to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium to Russia to be turned into fuel for a small reactor that produces medical isotopes, senior American and other Western officials said.
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We all heard a while ago that Sarah Palin had written a memoir called, very appropriately, Going Rogue, had already made it to the best seller list, and it doesn't even come out until November 17th. Somehow it even managed to pass up acclaimed author Dan Brown's latest book, The Lost Symbol. How did she d this while resigning from being the governor of alaska, and trying to cover up (no thanks to the press) her daughter's baby, apparently tried to make it seam like it was her's?
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A newlaw has been passed that has made it illegal to text while driving. Personally this should have been a law that forbade anyone to text while driving, because it really takes more of your attention away from the road than making calls did.
Driving while talking on hand-held cellphones has been banned in seven states, including California, and texting while driving has been banned in 18 states. Seventeen states have made it illegal for school bus drivers to use cellphones while driving.
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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the communist taker over of the largest country population wise in the world. Since there founding in 1949, they have transformed themselves into the modern war-torn economic powerhouse that they are today. Chinese dissident Harry Wu said this
Wu, now 72, believes the Chinese people will eventually cast off communism as citizens in the Soviet Union did.
A somewhat reliable source has disclosed that the 60th anniversary is apparently the debt forgiving anniversary, hope they are right.
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A new Fossil, named "Adri" (where did they find that random name?) was recently unearthed in modern day Ethiopia. The statistics on the size of the body are quite surprising, considering that my mother is actually taller than them.
The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.
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