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AP

A 6-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm and burned to the ground, police said. The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2

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Businessinsider.com/

BP is also fitting out ships to serve as floating hotels that can be moored by imperiled marshes, saving time and sparing workers watery commutes of up to two hours from land. The "flotels" will cost about $200,000 a day to operate...

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Businessinsider.com/

In his morning note, Gluskin-Sheff's David Rosenberg provides (without too much comment), these two economic growth charts. Note that both are year-over-year charts, so the latest results show growth flagging...

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Market-ticker.denninger.net/

There you have it - a federal official from the USCG threatening local and county officials with federal charges for protecting the inland waterways and acting to close State waters. So much for state sovereignty - are we a federation of states or a

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globalresearch.ca

For the third time in five months, a critical event has occurred in Statoil’s well 34/10-C-6 on Gullfaks, during drilling of a side track. The last event occured this Wednesday afternoon, at 3.47 pm, when the well was destabilized. Statoil immedia

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Washingtonsblog.com/

Let me understand better what you’re saying. If that is true that it is coming up form that seabed, even the relief well won’t be the final solution to cap this thing. That means that we’ve got oil gushing up at disparate places along the ocean floor

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Nakedcapitalism.com/

Prevailing attitudes are the logical and inevitable result of financial firms, taking an increasingly predatory posture toward their customers. Borrowers are responding in kind, by taking a cold-blooded and legalistic look at their agreements with...

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John Schmitt, Kris Warner, and Sarika Gupta

The US currently incarcerates a higher share of its population than any other country in the world. A reduction in incarceration rates just to the 1993 level would lower correctional expenditures by $16.9 billion per year, with the large majority o

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