Inspector General Report Shows DEA Covering Up Its Role In A Shooting That Left Four Foreign Citizens Dead

Here's the latest on how we're winning the Drug War, stripped of the DEA's deceit and spin by the Office of the Inspector General. The report [PDF] takes a look at three incidents the DEA was involved with in Honduras during 2012. The...

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World-First Trials Have Been Launched to Treat Parkinson's And Blindness With Embryonic Stem Cells

In a world first, surgeons in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou are planning to inject stem cells derived from human embryos into the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease with the aim of treating their debilitating symptoms.

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Paul Allen showed off his new rocket-launching plane today, and it’s BIG

The aircraft has a 385-foot wingspan and is powered by six Boeing 747 engines.

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The biggest companies in tech have united to urge Donald Trump not to pull out of a landmark agreement on climate change

Twenty-five of the world’s biggest corporations have made a last-minute pitch to President Donald Trump urging him not to reconsider plans to withdraw the United States from a landmark international agreement on climate change.

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Antarctic ice crack takes major turn

One of the biggest icebergs ever seen is a step closer to forming on the edge of the Larsen C shelf. The fissure, which threatens to spawn one of the biggest bergs ever seen, has dramatically changed direction. "The rift has propagated a further 16km, with a significant apparent right turn towards the end, moving the tip 13km from the ice edge," said Swansea University's Prof Adrian Luckman. The calving of the berg could now be very close, he told BBC News.

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Expert Asserts That Universal Basic Income Would Eliminate Poverty

Rutger Bregman, a basic income advocate gave a TED Talk on Universal Basic Income and how pulling people out of poverty will give them more choice in life.

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The Dutchman

Steve Goodman

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