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Weird News
No More Cadbury Chocolate For You
Anneliese Mahoney | January 27, 2015After a lawsuit from Hershey's, Cadbury Chocolate will disappear from U.S. shelves.
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News
Clergy to North Miami Beach Police: #UseMeInstead for Target Practice
Alexis Evans | January 27, 2015Clergy responds to Florida police using mugshots as target practice with #UseMeInstead on Twitter.
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Weird News
Dumbest Laws in the United States: Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin
Marisa Mostek | January 27, 2015Check out this week's installments of the dumbest laws in the U.S., courtesy of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota,...
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Energy and Environment
Near Space is Choked With Debris That We Put There
Franklin R. Halprin | January 27, 2015What can be done about the vast amounts of space debris that fill near space and threaten to crash...
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Cannabis in America
Legal Marijuana: The Fastest Growing Industry in America
Alexis Evans | January 26, 2015As more states legalize marijuana, the industry has been growing like crazy.
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Crime
Nearly All Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities Report Drops in Violent Crime
Kevin Rizzo | January 26, 2015Nearly all of the Most Dangerous Cities over 200,000 on Law Street’s Crime in America rankings followed the national...
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Crime
Paterson, NJ and Richmond, CA Report Major Drops in Violent Crime
Chelsey D. Goff | January 26, 2015Violent crime among the nation’s mid-sized cities is on a steady decline, according to the most recent data released...
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Crime
Not All of America’s Safest Cities Followed Trend of Declining Crime
Anneliese Mahoney | January 26, 2015In the latest Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, the FBI reported a nationwide violent crime decrease of 4.6 percent...
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Society and Culture
HeForShe: Emma Watson Does It Again
Morgan McMurray | January 26, 2015Emma Watson, representing UN Women and the HeForShe campaign, spoke for gender equality in Davos on Thursday, January 23.
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Schools
Oxford University Press Bans the Mention of Pork and Pigs
Joseph Perry | January 26, 2015Oxford University Press bans its authors from mention pork, pigs, and the like to avoid offending Jews and Muslims.
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World
Right-Wing Groups in Europe: A Rising Force?
Michael Sliwinski | January 25, 2015After the economic crisis and the influx of immigration, right-wing groups are on the rise in Europe.
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Weird News
Weird Arrests of the Week
Anneliese Mahoney | January 25, 2015Check out the top 5 weird arrests of the week.
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Society and Culture
‘Invisible Boyfriend’ May Be the Saddest Thing Ever
Alexis Evans | January 23, 2015Invisible Boyfriend app creates fake boyfriends to get parents of the backs of singles.
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News
ISIS Video Validity Questioned After Ransom Deadline Passes
Alexis Evans | January 23, 2015Japan's deadline to pay $200 million ransom passed. Experts question the ISIS video while world waits.
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Entertainment & Culture
Streaming Music: Good Business or an Attack on Artists?
Noel Diem | January 23, 2015Streaming music is a new fad in the music industry, but what effects will it have?
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Law
Squatters: What Are Their Rights?
Alexis Evans | January 23, 2015What you need to know when it comes to squatter's rights and how to protect yourself from adverse possession.
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Health & Science
Can Meditation Change Your Brain?
Ashley Bell | January 22, 2015Meditation has all sorts of helpful benefits, including improving our brains.
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Politics
The Jones Act: Outdated or Vital?
Chris Schultz | January 22, 2015The Jones Act is up for debate in Congress right now. What will they decide?
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Society and Culture
Misogynists Are At it Again, Now With T-Shirts!
Hannah R. Winsten | January 22, 2015The Meninists are here. And they're NEVER GETTING LAID.
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News
Protesters Interrupt SCOTUS Over Campaign Finance
Anneliese Mahoney | January 22, 2015Protesters from 99Rise interrupted SCOTUS over the Citizens United decision; seven people were arrested.
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Humor
Doctor Who? Teen Tricks Hospital For an Entire Month
Ashley Shaw | January 22, 2015A teenager impersonated a doctor for a month before the hospital caught him. What took them so long?
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Education
Obama’s College Rating System: Will it Fix Our Higher Education Problems?
Valeriya Metla | January 21, 2015The Obama Administration's plan to rank colleges hopes to fix our higher education problems.
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Schools
William Mitchell College of Law Launches Hybrid Online Legal Program
Brittany Alzfan | January 21, 2015Just this month, William Mitchell College of Law launched a new and unique legal education experiment.
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Sports
Deflategate: Patriots Caught Deflating AFC Championship Game Footballs
Alexis Evans | January 21, 2015Looks like Patriots' coach Bill Belichick has found himself at the center of yet another cheating scandal.
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News
SOTU All About the Middle Class, But Who Exactly is That?
Anneliese Mahoney | January 21, 2015The SOTU focused on the middle class, but does Congress even agree on who that is?