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The 2018 winter Olympic games, held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, have provided an invaluable opportunity to cool down the diplomatic tensions which have threatened to boil over into outright war over the last year. President Donald Trump's hardline stance on North Korea, coupled with the totalitarian state's growing nuclear capacity,…
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This weekend, Bollywood fans were shocked to hear that Sridevi Kapoor had passed away at the age of 54. She was often considered to be Hindi cinema's first "female superstar" and was arguably the most popular actress of her era during the '80s and '90s. At first, her death was…
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For years, we've heard people - mostly parents - go on about the detrimental effects of video games, and have put up with individuals complaining that no good ever comes from playing violent first-person shooters. However, it seems there might be at least one person for whom video games provided…
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It would not be an overstatement to say that, at one point, it genuinely seemed like we were on the brink of nuclear warfare. While the rest of us watched on, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un were busy exchanging school-yard insults through the media and threatening to blow up each…
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Though opinions are divided on the matter, the death penalty still exists in a nunber of states across the US. Inmates who are sentenced to die can be executed in a number of different ways depending on which state they're convicted in - from electrocution to hanging to firing squad…
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The fashion brands you associate yourself with, the hair gel you use and the ripped muscles on your arms might account to nothing if you don't have the right facial hair. Having a beard, a moustache, or – god forbid – an unsightly soul patch can make all the difference.…
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If there's one thing that's universally true for all human beings, it's that every single one of us - someday - are going to meet our end. It might seem a depressing thing to think about, and it's certainly not a fact that we should spend too much time dwelling…
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For years now, the subject of gun control has been a divisive one in the USA. And, in the wake of the Parkland school shooting on February 14th, the debate on the matter has only become more heated. "To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on…
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On the morning of Wednesday, February 21st, 12-year-old Amy Martinez went about her usual routine. She got up, had some breakfast, and began her journey to the Lathrop Intermediate School, where she attends seventh grade. Unbeknownst to her, however, she almost wouldn't get to her intended destination. As she was walking along…
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There have been a lot of entertaining moments at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un impersonators crashed the opening ceremony to show they're not enemies; they're BFF's. A teenage U.S. snowboarder overslept after a late night of watching TV, and still won Olympic gold,…
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As president, Donald Trump has struggled to play the role of consoler-in-chief. After calling a pregnant widow, she said he couldn't remember her dead husband's name and "made her cry even worse." After Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico, he bashed the Mayor on Twitter and hurled paper towels at the…
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When you ask teachers why they do what they do, more often than not, they come back with a very similar answer. They speak of their love of imparting knowledge, of knowing that they've made a difference in a child's life, of being there for that magic lightbulb moment where it all clicks…
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Welcome to 2018, the year where literally everyone claims to be a time traveler. Since the turn of the year, there has been a notable rise in people telling us that they're from the future and giving us some scary predictions. First of all, there was the guy who claimed to…
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There's a dating site for everyone these days - and I mean everyone. Do sexy feet excite you? Time to hit up a foot fetish site. Feel like you're not up to scratch in the looks department? Ugly Schmucks is the one for you. Already dating someone else, but looking to…
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A local sheriff has revealed how an armed officer who was assigned to the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week, stood outside of the building while the shooting happened and did not intervene. Broward County Sheriff Scott Isreal confirmed that Deputy Scot Peterson has resigned…
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In recent history, medicine has progressed in leaps and bounds. In fact, in little over a hundred years, we've gone from being a species that performed haphazard operations without anaesthetic to an advanced race that has essentially eradicated many of the world's most deadly diseases. However, every now and then,…
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On the morning of January 13th this year, 42-year-old Kathleen Dawn West was found lying face down across the street from her house. She was partially clothed, had her cellphone next to her body, and a bottle of absinthe balanced on top of her. She had died of blunt force…
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Someone planning the murder of their parents to get to their riches is a familiar story. Not because it happens all the time, but because there are so many plays, novels and movies made about the subject. While it's a compelling story to follow in fiction, we don't expect that…
