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Strong quake hits Taiwan; 160 pulled alive, many trapped
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on moon, dies in Florida
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Pope, Russian patriarch to talk about persecution of Christians
Julian Assange claims total vindication with UN panel ruling
Clinton, Sanders fight to make 'establishment' the dirtiest word in politics
Family of murdered ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller speaks out
Michigan emails show officials knew of Flint water disease risk
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Strong quake hits Taiwan; 160 pulled alive, many trapped

Posted: 05 Feb 2016 04:14 PM PST

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan early Saturday, toppling at least one high-rise residential building and trapping people inside. Firefighters rushed to pull out survivors.

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on moon, dies in Florida

Posted: 05 Feb 2016 04:35 PM PST

MIAMI (AP) — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13's "successful failure" and later devoted his life to exploring physics, the mind, and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens, has died in Florida. He was 85.

Progressive candidates make progress on defining progressivism

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Pope, Russian patriarch to talk about persecution of Christians

Posted: 05 Feb 2016 04:01 AM PST

The patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church will take part in an historic first meeting with the Roman Catholic pontiff on Feb. 12 because of the need for a joint response to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, the Orthodox Church said. Senior Orthodox cleric Metropolitan Hilarion said that long-standing differences between the two churches remain, most notably a row over the status of the Uniate Church, in Ukraine. "The situation shaping up today in the Middle East, in North and Central Africa, and in some other regions where extremists are carrying out a genuine genocide of the Christian population, demands urgent measures and an even closer cooperation between the Christian churches," Hilarion said.

Julian Assange claims total vindication with UN panel ruling

Posted: 05 Feb 2016 08:57 AM PST

LONDON (AP) — A little-known United Nations human rights panel has sided with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his long-running battle with Swedish and British authorities, saying he should be allowed to walk free from his embassy hideaway and compensated for the years he has lost.

Clinton, Sanders fight to make 'establishment' the dirtiest word in politics

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Family of murdered ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller speaks out

Posted: 04 Feb 2016 05:34 PM PST

Michigan emails show officials knew of Flint water disease risk

Posted: 04 Feb 2016 04:35 PM PST

(Reuters) - Emails between high-ranking Michigan state officials show they knew about an uptick in Legionnaires' disease and it could be linked to problems with Flint water long before Governor Rick Snyder said he got information on the outbreak. A spokesman for Snyder rejected the report by the liberal group Progress Michigan on Thursday. Emails obtained by the group show Snyder's principal aide, Harvey Hollins, was made aware of the outbreak and a possible link to the use of Flint River water last March.