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Police gunfire kills Hofstra University student, official says

A Hofstra University student who died during a confrontation between a home invasion suspect and authorities was killed by police gunfire, a Nassau County, New York, police spokeswoman said Saturday.
Winning numbers for largest Powerball jackpot are ...

The million-dollar questions have been answered. What are the Powerball numbers, and have any winning tickets been sold?
Bright explosion on moon visible from Earth, NASA says

A meteoroid struck the surface of the moon recently, causing an explosion that was visible on Earth without the aid of a telescope, NASA reported Friday. But don't be alarmed if you didn't see it; it...
Cell phone made me a theater vigilante

I have the great privilege of writing the theater column for The New Criterion, the arts-and-culture journal founded by New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer and pianist Samuel Lipman in 1982. Some...
Eyeing $600M Powerball jackpot? You have better chance of death by lightning

The multi-state Powerball jackpot has risen to $600 million, with a cash value of $376.9 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association.

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Report: Syria's Assad vows 'no dialogue with terrorists'

LIMA - Proposed peace talks for Syria would not curb "terrorism" in the country and it is unrealistic to think they would succeed, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published in an Ar...
Ax hovers over food stamp program as costs grow

By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC NewsA heated battle is brewing on Capitol Hill over cuts to the food stamp program, with lawmakers quoting Bible verses at each other and benefits for millions of...
Why sign up for a one-way Mars trip? Three applicants explain the appeal

A one-way trip to Mars sounds like something you'd wish on your worst enemy — so why would more than 78,000 people from around the world pay up to $75 for a chance to die on another planet?"I can sa...
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Winning ticket for huge Powerball jackpot sold in Florida

Do you have the lucky ticket? A winner for the huge Powerball jackpot was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., a Florida Lottery official confirmed to NBC News early Sunday.The winning Powerbal...

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Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit

Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city b...
Say Hello to the 100 Trillion Bacteria That Make Up Your Microbiome

Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
36 Hours in Texas Hill Country

Just west of Austin you’ll find the Hill Country, an area home to Comfort and Welfare, the echoes of Willie and Waylon and the tension between rural and refined.
Op-Ed Columnist: Hard of Hearings

Don’t worry, people. If you missed the heated hearing on the I.R.S. held by the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday, we have a complete rundown.
Opinionator | Draft: The Role of a Dictionary

Good writing may exceed the boundaries suggested, if not intended, by dictionary definitions.

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NTSB investigators focus on 'fractured rail' in Connecticut train collision

CNN - Found 2 hours agoAre you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport. (CNN) -- Federal investigators ruled out foul play in a commuter train derailment in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that l...
North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row

Reuters - Found 1 hour agoSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast on Sunday, a day after launching three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said, ignor...
IG letter to Geithner: Targeting not among top concerns

CNN - Found 12 hours ago(CNN) - Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that the IRS inspector general was reviewing the office that handles tax-exempt applications, but a letter from October...
Brief panic as blanks fired during Cannes TV show

CBS News - Found 8 hours agoTelevision footage showed Auteuil and Academy Award winner Waltz — a member of the Cannes festival jury — scrambling from the seaside stage with dozens of others as a v...
Flesh-eating bug victim gets bionic hands

CNN - Found 9 hours ago(CNN) -- Flesh-eating bacteria amputee Aimee Copeland now uses the latest technology in prosthetic hands to chop vegetables, pick up tiny items like Skittles, and comb and iron...

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Particle vs. Antiparticle

Leo Kouwenhoven is a professor of physics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He ended the 75-year hunt for the Majorana fermion—a particle that is its own antiparticle—by creati...
Advertisement: Snag-a-Sidekick With Eaton's Claw O-Matic

Research shows that taking short breaks can actually enhance your productivity level. That's why Eaton is excited to offer you an opportunity to boost your efficiency while learning so...
Doctor Who, Season 7, Part 2

In Slate’s Doctor Who TV Club, Mac Rogers discusses the Doctor’s travels via IM every week with the show’s bloggers and fans. This week he’s chatting about the season finale &qu...
The Longform Guide to Elephants

Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitter. Have an iPad...
Advertisement: The Week's Top IT Stories: 03/29

Every week, Eaton scours the Internet to bring you the top five industry headlines of the moment. This week, American Express confirmed its website was hacked, RIM announced a new strategy...

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Weekend Reading: Internet Crime Sleuths, Celebrity Psychics, Eurovision’s Hope

Banks may fail and currencies crumble, but while there is a Turkish back-up dancer sawing herself out of a robot costume, there is hope.
The Real Girl in the Blue Beret

I knew that my in-laws had celebrated a D-Day anniversary with her in France, but they are dead now, and all I had was her address.
Backblogged: Our Five Favorite Sentences of the Week

To put it into an equation: Microphones + Crooning + Nazis + Radio + Bing Crosby + $50,000 = Silicon Valley.
The “Office” Finale

I laughed during the “Office” finale, I cried during the “Office” finale. And really, maybe that’s all you want from a finale: closure and emotion. There have been severa...
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Cell-Phone Smashing of 2013

Should everyone follow Williamson’s lead and throw the offending cell phone? Of course not: theatregoing would turn into a Hobbesian state of nature, or, worse, the L train after midnight.

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The Week in News, As Seen Through the Photographer's Lens

The Week in News, As Seen Through the Photographer's Lens...
It's Time to Stop Obsessing Over Facebook's Profitability

It's Time to Stop Obsessing Over Facebook's Profitability...
Joe Klein: Would-Be Democratic Mayors Threaten to Return NYC to Horrors of 90s

Joe Klein: Would-Be Democratic Mayors Threaten to Return NYC to Horrors of 90s...
Richard Corliss Previews 29 Movies of Summer

Richard Corliss Previews 29 Movies of Summer...
David Beckham's Last Game: What He Means to Soccer

David Beckham's Last Game: What He Means to Soccer...

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Giant Renaissance Food People Descend Upon New York

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century artist who liked to play with his food, transforming it into the building blocks of many of his fantastical portraits. Artist Philip Haas has taken those portrai...
Nonconservative Groups Say IRS Scrutinized Them, Too

The IRS has admitted it flagged tax-exemption requests from groups with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names starting in 2010. But some liberal groups and journalism organizations say their applica...
Afghans With Disabilities Fight For The Right To Rights

Afghanistan isn't an easy place for anyone to make a living. But for those with disabilities, it's a downright hostile environment. Support has mostly come from nonprofits, but activists are pressing...
A Lucky Winner In Florida Could Be $590.5 Million Richer

If you bought a Poweball ticket in Zephyrhills, Fla., sit down and check these numbers: 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and 11. Lottery officials say only one ticket matched all six numbers to win Saturday's recor...
Russian Lawmakers: Don't Criticize Soviet Actions In WWII

Don't mess with Soviet history, especially when it comes to World War II. That's the message coming from some hard-line Russian legislators who are angry with an opposition lawmaker who criticized Jos...

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Habitat for Humanity homes got brunt of tornado damage

Texas tornadoes left their mark on Habitat homes.
Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police

A police officer's bullet killed N.Y. college student during response to home invasion.
Student debt weighs on overall economy

Loans that gave students the funds they needed to move forward are now holding them back.
Winning ticket in Powerball jackpot sold in Fla.

Ticket sold in Fla. matched all 6 numbers in the record $590.5M Powerball drawing.
Woozy on wheels: Pedal pubs rolling out everywhere

Human-powered taverns bring with them a host of regulatory challenges.

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Third in my series of Wamego, Kansas: Churches, and Interesting Homes

This time I'm going to show you some of the other sights of Wamego Kansas. First we'll start with some of the churches we visited, and then we'll see some of the "old homes" in town. Thankfully...
A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back

Why was a diplomatic outpost left so poorly protected? Should the Pentagon have rushed jets or special forces to the rescue when the assault began? Did President Barack Obama's administration obs...
Hope and Fear: Obama into 2014

Obama has nationalized American health care, flagrantly failed to enforce American immigration law, reduced American freedom, and burdened America with an unsustainable debt. The president uses the En...
Our dependency on technology is cultivating a generational set of people who will lack the creativity and ingenuity to solve problems of immediacy.

Note:(c) OUR GENERATIONAL CREATIVITY IS AT STAKE. RAS CARDO SPEAKS. FROM MY BOOK-(c) DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSIONS- THE HUMAN CONDITION. written without prejudice- and the knowledge that reasonable minds wil...
The $385 Billion Military-Industrial Boondoggle You've Never Heard Of

What, exactly, is the reason for the US to have 1000 military bases overseas? Aside from the clear moral question of the justification for such an aggressive military posture, of seeing...

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Imran Khan blames rival for killing

Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan's PTI party, is blaming one of his political rivals for the killing of PTI official Zahra Shahid Hussain.
Syria army 'storms' rebel-held town

Syrian government forces surround the rebel town of Qusair with opposition activists saying at least 16 people have been killed.
Lennon guitar sells for $408,000

A guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles in 1967 fetches $408,000 (£269,000) at auction in New York.
Tunisia police clash with Islamists

Tunisian police clash with hundreds of supporters of the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia defying attempts to bar a gathering.
Denmark crowned Eurovision winners

Denmark's Emmelie de Forest wins the Eurovision Song Contest, with the UK's Bonnie Tyler finishing 19th out of 26 countries.

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SNL's Ben Affleck Episode: 5 Best Scenes

Sendoffs for Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, and Fred Armisen. A wedding for Stefon. Cameos by Amy Poehler and Jennifer Garner. ...
Two Takes on the Modern History of the 'Scandal'

A system hard-wired for this 'narrative.' ...
Eric Schmidt: Kim Jong Un Could Turn On North Korea's Internet if He Wanted

There is literally a switch that could give the hermit nation the Web, Google's chairman said. ...
Will 'Digital Ethnic Cleansing' Be Part of the Internet's Future?

Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen, and Steve Clemons discuss the political limitations of the Internet. ...
NASA Records an Explosion on the Moon So Bright You Could Have Seen It With Your Bare Eyes

And now you can, in a video. ...

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Deadly crossing

In 2012, sheriff's deputies in Brooks County found 129 bodies, around double the amount from the year before and six times the number recorded in 2010. Most of those who die succumb to the punishing h...
Chechnya: daily life

After two Chechen brothers were named in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, Reuters photographer Maxim Shemetov took this collection of images titled "Inside Modern Chechnya" showing daily...
Sugar and salt

Although modern techniques often bring sugar and salt to our tables, these two simple treats for the palate are still harvested and processed in traditional, if not ancient methods the world over. Ove...
National Geographic Traveler Magazine: 2013 Photo Contest

The National Geographic Traveler Magazine photo contest, now in its 25th year, has begun. There is still plenty of time to enter. The entry deadline is Sunday, June 30, at 11:59 p.m. Entrants may subm...
Wildfires in California

California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. yesterday declared this week as "Wildfire Awareness Week" in recognition of last week's devastating fires northwest of Los Angeles. His proclamation noted, "In...

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