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New York Governor Pledges Action After Revelations Of Nail Salon Work Conditions

Monday, May 11, 2015

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced the creation of a task force to investigate and tackle abuse in the state's more than 2,000 nail salons. The announcement Sunday comes just days after The New York Times ran a two-part series alleging rampant underpayment, unsafe living and working ...

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Whole Foods Tries To Shake 'Whole Paycheck' Rep With Cheaper Spinoff

Friday, May 08, 2015

The company hopes to attract millennials, saying the yet-to-be-named stores will "feature a modern streamlined design, innovative technology and a curated selection."

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Report: Record 38 Million People Displaced Within Their Country

Thursday, May 07, 2015

The report says the citizens are internally displaced due to conflict or violence. Since they're homeless in their own country, they lack benefits refugees who left the country might receive.

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Recovery Begins For Small Businesses Hit By Baltimore Riots

Monday, May 04, 2015

Stores in Baltimore are welcoming customers back Monday as the National Guard begins to move out. But the small mom-and-pop stores in the neighborhood are in for a long road to recovery.

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In Baltimore, The Curfew Ends And Residents Observe A Day Of Reflection

Sunday, May 03, 2015

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake lifted the citywide curfew and Maryland's governor declared Sunday a day of prayer and peace.

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Baltimore Police Hand Freddie Gray Investigation Report To Prosecutors

Thursday, April 30, 2015

The Baltimore Police Department says the van transporting Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who suffered a serious spine injury while in police custody and later died, made one more stop than previously thought.

Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said the stop was made at the corner of Fremont Avenue ...

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Google Experimenting With Patent Marketplace To Combat Trolls

Monday, April 27, 2015

In the most straightforward of language, Google announced its very own patent marketplace on Monday. "We invite you to sell us your patents," reads the first sentence of the blog post announcing the news.

It sets the tone for what Google says will be a no-frills, no-runaround, very transparent ...

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Google's New Search Algorithm Stokes Fears Of 'Mobilegeddon'

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Google has a lot of algorithms. And the company updates them on a regular basis. But one update that started rolling out Tuesday has tech writers across the Internet warning of a coming "Mobilegeddon."

The change is only taking place on Google searches made on smartphones. The results will favor ...

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Twitter Now Allows Users To Receive Direct Messages From Any User

Monday, April 20, 2015

Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET: Twitter responds to harassment questions

"Communicating with people you may or may not know in real life just got easier," says Twitter Senior Software Engineer Nhu Vuong in a blog post announcing a change to Twitter's direct messaging system. The new feature gives users ...

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WikiLeaks Makes It Easy To Access Hacked Sony Pictures Information

Thursday, April 16, 2015

WikiLeaks has posted a searchable archive of more than 170,000 emails and 30,000 private documents belonging to Sony Pictures Entertainment. The movie conglomerate reacted angrily to the news on Thursday, saying that it condemned the indexing of stolen employee and other privileged information.

The data was hacked in November ...

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Adrian Peterson To Be Reinstated By NFL

Thursday, April 16, 2015

The NFL has announced that Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson will be reinstated Friday as "an active NFL player and may participate in all scheduled activities with the Vikings."

Peterson was suspended in November for the rest of the 2014 NFL season after he was accused of ...

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SpaceX Launches Successfully, But Rocket Doesn't Survive

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

After a one-day delay due to weather, SpaceX successfully launched a resupply mission to the International Space Station. In a tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote, "Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station."

Much more difficult was trying to land the used booster rocket, Falcon 9, on a floating ...

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White House Says It Will Remove Cuba From List Of State Sponsors Of Terrorism

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

The Obama administration announced Tuesday it will remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a major step in normalizing relations between the two countries. The announcement comes just days after a meeting between President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro at a summit in Panama.

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Airplane Makes Emergency Landing After Worker Trapped in Cargo Hold

Monday, April 13, 2015

In a statement posted to its blog, Alaska Airlines said that Flight 448, traveling from Seattle to Los Angeles, returned to Seattle-Tacoma International after being in the air for just 14 minutes. Alaska Airlines said "immediately after takeoff" the pilot "reported hearing banging from beneath the aircraft."

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Storm Clouds Delay SpaceX Spacecraft Launch

Monday, April 13, 2015

Updated at 4:50 p.m. ET.

SpaceX has delayed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft by a day, after fast-approaching storm clouds moved into Cape Canaveral, Fla., according to the AP. In a tweet, SpaceX said the next opportunity for a launch will be Tuesday at ...

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Study Finds The Poor Subject To Unfair Fines, Driver's License Suspensions

Thursday, April 09, 2015

A new report says an issue highlighted recently in Ferguson, Mo. — that tickets and fines disproportionately burden people of color and the poor, and lead to their incarceration — is not limited to Missouri.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area finds that ...

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Icy Traffic Jam On Lake Superior Has 18 Ships Stuck

Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Pickup truck-size ice chunks have left the freight ships stuck in Lake Superior. The U.S. and Canadian coast guards have sent in icebreakers to help the ships get through.

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For The Modern Man, The Sweatpant Moves Out Of The Gym

Wednesday, April 08, 2015

High-end sweatpants are becoming a staple in an increasing number of men's wardrobes. It's part of a global fashion trend called "athleisure," where gym clothes find their way out of the workout room.

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An Edward Snowden Statue Was Replaced By A Hovering Snowden Image Last Night

Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Yesterday in a Brooklyn park, anonymous artists erected a large bust of Edward Snowden, who leaked National Security Agency documents. Animal New York has details:

"While most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn on ...

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How Do You Like Los Angeles' New Parking Signs?

Monday, April 06, 2015

In Los Angeles, it's really not the traffic, it's the parking.

Every Angeleno has endured that nerve-wracking search for a spot, circling and circling and circling city blocks. Then, when you finally find a space, you've got to solve the logic puzzle that LA parking signs can sometimes be.

For ...

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