* Giuliani says Obama is to blame for the latest shootings in Ferguson, calls Brown's death “a justifiable homicide." * Protests in Ferguson—or fear thereof—drove huge spike in Missouri gun sales. * NASA launches four spacecraft to study the give-and-take of the Earth and sun'
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* Two officers shot outside the Ferguson Police Department during night of protest. * White millennials appear to be no less prejudiced than the rest of the white population. * Critics who say Empire uses the worst of black stereotypes forget that black characters are free to be flawed. * Republicans startled by PR
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* Towelette that washed up in Western Australia being tested to see if it came from lost flight MH370. * Utah reinstates firing squad as backup to lethal injection. * Lebanese TV host pulls the plug on a sexist Islamic scholar after he tells her to "shut up." * Review of the
* US calls Venezuela a national security threat and sanctions top officials. * Isaac Herzog emerging as genuine threat to Netanyahu in Israel's March 17 elections. * Bill Clinton's portraitist reveals that he worked some of Lewinsky’s stained dress into the official portrait. * See also: George W. Bush&
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* Obama tells a crowd in Selma, "We know the march is not yet over." * Selma today is a place expected to carry perhaps more symbolic weight than any small city can bear. * Senator Lindsay Graham reveals he has never sent an email. * For media geeks: War stories from
* White supremacy is the machinery of Galactus which allows for the potential devouring of everything you own. * Federal agencies, especially DOJ, launch quiet resistance against FOIA reform. * Ballooning campaign contributions to judges fly under the radar, despite growing attention to money in politics. * Oil company won't let youth
* Justice Dept. investigation finds endemic civil rights abuses in Ferguson PD. * Related: For evidence of racial bias in Ferguson PD, look to an impartial judge: radar guns. * Fellow opposition leader Navalny blames Russian government for Nemtsov murder. * Russia accuses the US of stoking mass protests and financing opposition movements within
