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Facebook brings WiFi to country of 1.2 billion
Facebook says one of its new internet proliferation projects is up and running in India, a country of 1.2 billion people.
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NFL players petition league to look at marijuana as painkiller
A group of retired football players and medical professionals are petitioning the NFL to consider marijuana as an alternative to prescription painkillers.
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Florence Henderson, “The Brady Bunch” mom, dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Florence Henderson, who went from Broadway star to become one of America's most beloved television moms in "The Brady Bunch," has died, her manager and her publicist said. She was 82. Henderson died Thursday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after
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The two men who almost derailed New England’s first colonies
There is no holiday more American than Thanksgiving – and perhaps none with origins so shrouded in comforting myths.
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Top U.S. civilian honor goes to 21 athletes, artists, others
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest civilian honor to 21 groundbreaking actors, musicians, athletes and innovators who inspired him over the years and "helped make me who I am." "Everybody on this stage has touched me in a very powerful, personal way,
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Famed pianist, 92, to perform in Boston after heart surgery
BOSTON (AP) — World-renowned pianist Menahem Pressler is returning to Boston to play his heart out in the city that kept it beating. Pressler is performing next week with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, returning to the city where he underwent a rare, life-saving procedure to repair an aneurysm in his aorta.
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An American tradition: New book on Thanksgiving reminds us of the ties that bind
For most Americans, Thanksgiving is about what author Melanie Kirkpatrick calls the three Fs—family, feasting, and football. But, beyond the well-worn story about that first feast shared by pilgrims and Indians in 1621, few of us know the history of the holiday—or how deeply it is woven into
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Smithsonian now mentions Clarence Thomas, but only in Anita Hill footnote
(CNSNews.com) – In response to a letter from lawmakers demanding to know why Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is not included in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian responded that it has added a caption to Anita Hill's representation in the museum.
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