2015年10月5日 星期一

2015-10-06 U.S. Spotlight


AL.com
   
Alabama sends message: We are too broke to care about right and wrong   
AL.com
Alabama might as well just send an invitation to the Justice Department. Come on in guys. Come on down. No need to reply with an RSVP. Because we know you'll be here. How could you resist? Because Alabama just took a giant step backward. Take a look ...


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Up close with LG's dual-screen, dual-selfie camera phone   
The Verge
LG announced the new V10 smartphone late last night, and we just got our first close look at the brand new device here in New York. It's the first phone in a new series of "V" phones, and it comes with a fairly new design. Gone are the curved displays ...

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Breitbart News
   
Obama Pulled John Kerry and Samantha Power From Netanyahu UN Speech   
Breitbart News
Breitbart News has learned that President Obama called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power into a video conference before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Speech to the United ...


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Dominant and dangerous   
The Economist
IF HEGEMONS are good for anything, it is for conferring stability on the systems they dominate. For 70 years the dollar has been the superpower of the financial and monetary system. Despite talk of the yuan's rise, the primacy of the greenback is ...


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Noisey (blog)
   
Investigating the Conspiracy That Says Avril Lavigne Was Killed off and ...   
Noisey (blog)
When Avril Lavigne released the video for the hyper-kawaii trainwreck of a track “Hello Kitty” two years ago, fans were confused. Aside from the claims of cultural appropriation—Billboard were just one of many publications to assert that the track ...

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ThinkProgress
   
Why The Vatican Is Being So Weird About The Pope's Meeting With Kim Davis ...   
ThinkProgress
UPDATE: A day after this post was published, the Vatican announced that the meeting between Kim Davis and Pope Francis “should not be considered a form of support of her position.” Their statement did not clarify the original impetus for the meeting ...

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The model minority is losing patience   
The Economist
MICHAEL WANG, a young Californian, came second in his class of 1,002 students; his ACT score was 36, the maximum possible; he sang at Barack Obama's inauguration; he got third place in a national piano contest; he was in the top 150 of a national ...


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NFL Week 4 game picks: Panthers stay perfect; Saints rebound   
NFL.com
Early in the year, Tyrod Taylor was considered a third-stringer -- he wasn't even the primary backup in Buffalo. EJ Manuel and Matt Cassel (now behind Weeden in Dallas) were supposed to be competing for what is now Taylor's gig. On that note .

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Chron.com
   
Lost photo of Jesse James, assassin Robert Ford is found, authenticated   
Chron.com
Lois Gibson, forensic artist and analyst for the Houston Police Department, claims Wednesday she'd identified an image of one of America's most notorious outlaws, Jesse James. Now an undated tintype photo, purportedly of James seated beside his ...


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Obama Condemns 'Routine' of Mass Shootings, Says US Has Become Numb   
New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama's rage about gun massacres, building for years, spilled out Thursday night as he acknowledged his own powerlessness to prevent another tragedy and pleaded with voters to force change themselves. “So tonight, as those ...


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