Tides have wiped out two more homes on Washaway Beach, according to a report by KING5’s Drew Mikkelsen. A blogger who has been chronicling the
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The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies
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You often hear claims, sometimes from pundits who should know better, that nobody predicted a sluggish recovery, and that this proves that mainstream macroeconomics is
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Seattle, I’m going tip my cap. I hope you appreciate that we bow before you here in the largest city in the country, and we
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My constituents are just flabbergasted that the NFL continues to enjoy a tax exempt status… On these issues of having a hateful name for a
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An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe.
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Earlier this evening, St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch held a long, self-serving press conference to disclose that the grand jury he decided to make
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It will soon seem strange that once it was possible to go into a Chick-fil-A or a Denny’s and not see calories on menus and
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DISPATCHER: La Porte 911, what is the address of your emergency? DUPONT SUPERVISOR: We have a possible Casualty 5, is what my medics are telling
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We are outraged by the lack of intergovernmental cooperation.. We are a sovereign nation and we are not being treated as such. We will close
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery John Oliver details how lotteries promise big returns to state legislatures but don’t deliver.
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