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Adult Coloring Books Test Grown-Ups’ Ability to Stay Inside the Lines

Public libraries and other spaces are offering coloring-book sessions for grown-ups, and eight of the top 20 selling books on Amazon are coloring books for adults.

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191 Million US Voter Registration Records Leaked In Mystery Database

A whitehat hacker has uncovered a database sitting on the Web containing various pieces of personal information related to 191 million American citizens registered to vote. On top of the concomitant problems of disclosing such a significant leak to that many people, no one knows who is actually responsible for the misconfiguration that left the data open to anyone.

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German code-breakers expose huge credit card flaw, companies continue keeping silent

There’s never been a riskier time to use plastic to pay for your holiday shopping. A couple of German security experts found a new flaw in payment terminals – the very thing designed to protect your information – that allows hackers to steal all your money.

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In the age of Amazon, used bookstores are making an unlikely comeback

Used bookstores, with their quintessential quirkiness, eclectic inventory and cheap prices, find themselves in the catbird seat as the pendulum eases back toward print. In many cities, that’s a de facto position: They’re the only book outlets left.

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Californian’s ballot initiative would require legislators to wear logos of top 10 contributors

You can tell who sponsors NASCAR drivers by the patches on their jumpsuits. So why not do the same for politicians?

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Russia launches alternative to Visa and Mastercard

The “Mir” card – a name that could be translated both as “peace” and “world” – was issued by a string of banks, among them Gazprombank, Rossiya bank and others blacklisted by the West following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last year.

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Oxford student behind Cecil Rhodes campaign wants French flag banned on campuses

The Tricolour is a “violent” symbol, comparable to the Nazi swastika, says
Oxford University student activist

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The encryption delusion

Weeks after the Paris and San Bernadino attacks, authorities have yet to disclose evidence that the terrorists used encryption.

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Pablo Iglesias: How the leader of the leftist Podemos party upset Spain's elites to reach the brink of power

The brief meeting in April between Pablo Iglesias, leader of Podemos – the insurgent force in Spanish politics – and King Felipe, the country’s youthful king, was always going to create headlines. It came a little more than 18 months after the formation of the leftist party which surged in opinion polls after Iglesias and his colleagues called for a “new Spain”.

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Hundreds of migrants storm Spanish border with Morocco

Two migrants have been killed after around 400 attempted to cross in to Spain
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Spain’s Anger Management

Is this the dawn of a new era in Spanish politics, as some suggest? Judging from the results of last Sunday’s election, we can safely say that the old era has, at least, been dealt a severe blow.

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Pawnshops Emerge as Solid Lender in Post-Austerity Spain

Lax lending and deadbeat borrowers nearly brought down the Spanish banking system a few years ago. That’s why the remnants of some of the failed banks are resorting to a time-honored form of loans with can’t-miss collateral: pawnshops.

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Assault on Indian workers strains ties with Saudi Arabia

Three men from Kerala, who filmed their brutal treatment at the hands of their Saudi Arabian employer, will return to India in the next few days, the government has said. However, the growing number

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South American left in retreat as economic crisis deepens

In perhaps the biggest turnabout, voters in Venezuela, where the region's leftward shift began, handed the opposition a landslide victory in congressional elections - its first nationwide legislative win since the U.S.-bashing Hugo Chavez won the presidency in 1998.

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Over 3,000 US Prisoners Released Early Due to Software Bug

Software bugs in the past have caused the destruction of rockets, the deaths of innocents, the collapse of economies, and other very distressing incidents. A newly reported glitch, however, is both amusing and alarming. A software glitch has set more than 3,000 prisoners free far ahead of the full-term of their sentences in the Washington State Department of Corrections.

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44 Percent Of Democrats Support Taking Refugees From A Fictional Country

Public Policy Polling, which is known for adding questions in surveys to exploit Republicans who are less informed, recently found that 30% of Republican voters would support bombing Agrabah, a fictional country in the Disney film Aladdin.

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Rwanda votes to give President Paul Kagame right to rule until 2034

EU and US condemn extended powers and say he should step down to ‘foster a new generation of leaders’

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Americans are drinking themselves to death at record rates

In 2014, there were 9.6 deaths from these alcohol-induced causes per 100,000 people, an increase of 37 percent since 2002.

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1950s U.S. Nuclear Target List Offers Chilling Insight

It lists many targets for “systematic destruction” in major cities, including 179 in Moscow (like “Agricultural Equipment” and “Transformers, Heavy”), 145 in Leningrad and 91 in East Berlin. The targets are referred to as DGZs or “designated ground zeros.” While many are industrial facilities, government buildings and the like, one for each city is simply designated “Population.”

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Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA

Security researchers believe they have finally solved the mystery around how a sophisticated backdoor embedded in Juniper firewalls works.

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Drunk people account for 70% of weekend emergency room visits in UK city

Drinking binges are now a scientifically measurable phenomenon.

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Poll: 30% of GOP voters support bombing Agrabah, the city from Aladdin

Public Policy Polling also found that about 54% of the Republicans they polled support banning Muslims from entering the US, as Donald Trump has proposed

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Preliminary results: Slovenians reject same-sex marriage law

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenians rejected a same-sex marriage law by a large margin in a referendum on Sunday, according to preliminary referendum results. The results released Sunday by authorities show 63 percent voted against a bill that defines marriage as a union of two adults, while 37 percent were in favor. The results were incomplete, but were unlikely to change significantly in the f

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Politically correct universities 'are killing free speech'

British universities have become too politically correct and are stifling free
speech by banning anything that causes the least offence to anyone,
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Two countries had no idea they were in Saudi Arabia's Muslim coalition to fight terrorism

Earlier this week Saudi Arabia announced a new 34-country coalition of Muslim nations to fight terrorism, but two of the key countries have said they had no idea they were involved. The countries from Asia, Africa and the Arab world were combining their efforts to combat extremism, according to the Saudis, who have faced mounting pressure to step up efforts in addressing the threat of extremism.

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Congress Slips CISA Into a Budget Bill That¡s Sure to Pass

The privacy-mangling CISA bill will likely now be passed into law without debate, as a part of a larger piece of budget legislation.

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Poland Ousts Head of NATO Training Center in Nighttime Raid

Poland’s government replaced the head of NATO’s training facility in Warsaw after Defense Ministry officials and military police entered its provisional office after midnight on Friday." data-ephemeral="true

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UK male university numbers continue to fall behind

Women aged 18 are 35% more likely to start a degree course than their male counterparts, Ucas claims

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The Surprising Explanation How "That Infamous Ford Truck" Ended Up In ISIS Hands

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Lettuce is ‘three times worse than bacon' for emissions and vegetarian diets could be bad for environment

Eating a healthier diet rich in fruit and vegetables could actually be more harmful to the environment than consuming some meat, a US study has claimed. Lettuce is “over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon”, according to researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University who analysed the impact per calorie of different foods in terms of energy cost, water use and emissions

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EU Border-Control Proposal Runs Into Resistance

A European Union proposal to give Brussels the last say on policing the bloc’s external borders is facing growing opposition ahead of an EU leaders’ summit this week on the continent’s migration crisis.

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Lights out for Rio 2016? Main power supplier pulls Olympic bid

Longtime Olympic power provider Aggreko has pulled out of a tender to supply generators for the games in Rio de Janeiro next year, the spokesman for Rio 2016 told Reuters, dealing a major blow to organizers rushing to secure an energy source for the world's largest sporting event.

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Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-focused Librem 13 laptop

Snowden is "really excited" about security-by-isolation and privacy-respecting Qubes OS.

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Inside Britain's Sharia courts dispensing 'justice' across the UK

A forthcoming book by Machteld Zee offers an unprecedented insight into the secret world of Britain's so-called Sharia courts after she was allowed access to them over three days in 2013.

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Russian Frigate Uses Firearms to Prevent Collision With Turkish Vessel

The crew of the Russian "Smetlivy" destroyer was forced to use firearms on Sunday to prevent a collision with a Turkish seiner vessel in the northern part of the Aegean Sea, according to Russia's Ministry of Defense.

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World Leaders Just Agreed To A "Historic" Climate Accord... Which Is Non-Binding And Has No Enforcement Language

Great news! The "greatest threat to future generations of the world" has apparently been solved. World leaders Saturday adopted an historic international climate accord in Paris, the first-ever agreement to commit almost every country to fight climate change. However, as we knew all along and just got confirmation, the 31-page pact does not have binding language or a mechanism to force countries t

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Beijing continues to suffer from pollution, but Delhi's air quality is one-and-a-half times worse | Environment

While Beijing residents continue to struggle through a period of unusually high air pollution, similarly high smog levels are a fact of life for many in different parts of the world where Beijing-style warning systems aren&;t in force.

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Paul Ryan says U.S. taxes on small businesses is 44.6 percent,” versus 15 percent in Canada

Shortly after his election as House Speaker, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis) spelled out his agenda for Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren. A key concern is tax reform, Ryan said during the Nov. 4, 2015 appearance on Van Susteren’s "On the Record" show. "We have to reform the U.S. tax code if we want to create more economic growth and more jobs," said Ryan, who was chai

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EU plans border force to police external frontiers

Brussels is to propose the creation of a standing European border force that could take control of the bloc’s external frontiers — even if a government objected. The move would arguably represent the biggest transfer of sovereignty since the

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EU Unveils Standing Border Force That Will Act "Even If A Government Objects"

"The move would arguably represent the biggest transfer of sovereignty since the creation of the single currency."

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Two detained in Finland over ISIS executions in Tikriy

The National Bureau of Investigation says that two Iraqi brothers have been detained in Finland on suspicion of terrorism-related murders in Iraq. They suspect that they were members of the extremist group ISIS.

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German court lets off 'Sharia police' patrol in Wuppertal

A German court rules that Islamists who patrolled a city's streets as "Sharia police" did not break the law and will not be prosecuted.

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Donald Trump: British police officers warn about growing ISIS radicalisation in London

BRITISH police officers have sensationally backed Donald Trump’s controversial claim that parts of the country are no-go areas because of growing Islamist extremism.

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Sweden:Six in ten jobless will be foreigners by 2017

UPDATED: Sweden's Employment Agency (Arbetsförmedlingen) has predicted that 60 percent of unemployed people living in Sweden will be foreign-born by 2017, while the jobless rate for Swedes is set to shrink.

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Spanish police arrest two suspected of recruiting for Islamic State

Spanish police on Tuesday arrested two people suspected of recruiting fighters for Islamic State in the Canary Islands and the northeastern region of Catalonia, bringing to 100 the number of suspected Islamist militants detained this year.

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4 injured in blast at Moscow bus stop

At least four people have been injured in a blast at bus stop in central Moscow, according to police and medical sources.

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Beijing smog ‘Red Alert’ issued: Schools and businesses to completely shut down as Chinese capital issues first ever ext

Beijing has issued its first ever “Red Alert” over the city’s smog, and the Chinese capital will now go into shutdown in an attempt to protect people from the deadly air. Red alert is the highest possible state of caution that can be declared. It is the first time ever that it has been declared in the capital. The warning means that schools will have to shutdown and construction and other industry

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Marine Le Pen’s landslide victory sends shockwaves through France

Far right triumphs in French poll A landslide victory of Marine Le Pen’s National Front party in the first round of French regional polls has sent shockwaves through France’s mainstream parties, which appear seemingly helpless at stopping the