Tornadoes rip through Michigan... / Is That The 'Death Star' Suckling on the Sun? / Iran food stockpiling grows as grain ships near port / IMF approves Greek bailout / Savanah Georgia region shaken by mystery ‘boom’ noise / Section of White Cliffs of Dover fall into English Channel / Indonesia’s Lamongan volcano awakens from sleep after 114 years / When the money runs out: cases of HIV, TB, and malaria explode in Greece, ‘health system near collapse’ / Alaska Aleutian Island Cleveland volcano explodes for third time in a week / Earthquake swarm’ shakes New Brunswick village- like ‘a bunch of dynamite going off,’ resident says /

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'H-Bomb' Asteroid To Skim Past Earth In 2013

An asteroid with the destructive power of an H-bomb will narrowly miss Earth next year, scientists have said. The 50m-long space rock will whizz past our planet on February 15, 2013, at a distance of just 15,000 miles. That's closer than the orbit of many commercial satellites. Scientists say there is no chance that we will be hit by Asteroid 2012 DA14 but such a possibility cannot be ruled out in years to come. If it did smash into Earth the force of the explosion would destroy an area the size of Greater London. The asteroid was spotted last month by scientists in a Spanish observatory after they searched an area of the sky where asteroids are not normally seen. Dr Gerhard Drolshagen, a near-Earth object observer from the European Space Agency's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) office said, at roughly...
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Is That The 'Death Star' Suckling on the Sun?

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Salehi: If Israel strikes Iran, it will meet its end

If Israel decides to conduct a military strike on nuclear sites in Iran, it will be the end of the Jewish state, said Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbhar Salehi on Thursday. “If Israel ever, ever makes this mistake, that will set the time for the end of Israel. The Israelis are well aware of this,” said Salehi, during an interview with Danish television TV2. The Iranian foreign minister stressed that in the case of an Israeli attack on Iran, the Islamic Republic "will be responding very forcefully." Earlier Thursday, the Iranian foreign minister met with Hamas leader...
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Iran food stockpiling grows as grain ships near port

LONDON/HAMBURG - Vessels carrying at least 360,000 tonnes of grain are lined up to unload in Iran, Reuters shipping data showed on Thursday, a sign that Tehran is succeeding in stockpiling food to blunt the impact of tougher Western sanctions. Iran has been shopping for wheat at a frantic pace, ordering a large part of its expected yearly requirement in a little over one month and paying a premium in non-dollar currencies to work around toughened Western sanctions and avoid social unrest. Food shipments are not targeted under western...
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Maryland Senate votes to tax the rich
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IMF approves Greek bailout

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CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher

More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them. Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an “Internet of Things” — that is, wired devices — at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm. “‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,” Petraeus enthused, “particularly to their effect on...
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New Law Clears the Way for Airports to Drop T.S.A. Screeners

WASHINGTON — A new law makes it easier for airports to replace federal screeners with private contractors, and several airports, after years of passenger complaints, are lining up to make the change. The law was welcome news to Larry Dale, president and chief executive of Orlando Sanford International Airport, who said his airport’s request to opt out of using Transportation Security Administration officers last year was denied by the federal government. Mr. Dale said his desire to use private screeners in place of T.S.A. personnel was...
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CBO Undermines Obamacare Claims for the Second Time this Week

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that Obamacare will cost taxpayers $1.76 trillion, double the $900 billion price tag advanced by the president, and could lead businesses to cut off coverage to 20 million Americans, according to a report released Wednesday. From the Washington Examiner: The CBO released its latest cost estimate of Obamacare’s spending provisions showing that the law will cost $1.76 trillion through 2022. But even that doesn’t capture the law’s true price tag. Since Obamacare will not be fully...
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Proposal in Arizona would require presidential candidates to fill out a new standardized form before running.

PHOENIX – Arizona officials have jumped back into the debunked birther controversy over President Barack Obama's birth certificate and his eligibility to hold office, endorsing a proposal that requires presidential candidates to swear that...
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Chinese schoolgirls commit suicide in attempt to travel back in time

Girls may have been influenced by time travel-related TV shows.
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Savanah Georgia region shaken by mystery ‘boom’ noise
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Section of White Cliffs of Dover fall into English Channel

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Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano unleashes 9 low-level emissions
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Indonesia’s Lamongan volcano awakens from sleep after 114 years
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When the money runs out: cases of HIV, TB, and malaria explode in Greece, ‘health system near collapse’
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Alaska Aleutian Island Cleveland volcano explodes for third time in a week
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Earthquake swarm’ shakes New Brunswick village- like ‘a bunch of dynamite going off,’ resident says

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