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Man Who Stole Drugs and Killed Father With Them Gets Praise, Suspended Sentence from English Judge

The elderly father wasn't physically ill, but after the death of his wife and dog didn't want to live anymore, so his son stole morphine and insulin from a pharmacy and gave them to his father so he would die. The judge was impressed by the

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Inside the Sexual Harassment Process of Congress, With John Conyers

U. S. Representative John Conyers, 88, a Democrat from Michigan, has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women who formerly worked on his staff. BuzzFeed has a story about a particular case with documents showing the process Congress uses to secretly settle such cases using public funds, with the

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Australia Voters Support Same-Sex Marriage, 62-38

The nationwide vote is expected to lead to legislation in Parliament to legalize same-sex marriage in all of Australia. Conservatives in Parliament are planning to offer amendments to try to protect religious freedom, but observers expect same-sex marriage to be legalized before the end of 2017.

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Garrison Keillor Calls Himself Conservative, But Not Necessarily the Right-Wing Kind

The former host of A Prairie Home Companion says he misses card games, broadsheet newspapers, and pre-post-modern rock-'n-roll, among other things.

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Al Hunt: Joe Biden in 2020

The longtime liberal columnist thinks the longtime politician may have a shot in 2020, at age 78. So does Joe.

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Cops Don’t Even Have To See Alleged Driving Violation To Give Ticket

Cameras at certain intersections in Wichita, Kansas are being monitored from City Hall, and then someone at City Hall is telling a cop on the road what the driver did and where the car is. "I hope people don't perceive this as 'Big Brother',"

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Missing Cat Found 120 Miles From Home, A Year Later

Romeo once visited the Bush compound on Walker Point in Kennebunkport, Maine, but that's not nearly as far away from his home as Skowhegan, where he turned up recently. A microchip implanted in the cat helped a veterinarian figure out where the cat's normal veterinarian was

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Selling Recreational Marijuana Still Illegal in Maine

The Maine House of Representatives upheld a veto by Governor Paul LePage of a bill that would have provided a mechanism to sell marijuana in Maine for recreational purposes. It's legal to grow marijuana in Maine and to sell it for medicinal purposes, but not to sell it