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  The alcohol industry is being impacted negatively by the legal narcotics industry

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  As cannabis cuts into spirits spending, distillers release "hemped" products

  In states where cannabis is legal, emerging research shows "a 15 to 20 percent decline in alcoholic beverage sales"

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  Thanks to anti-vaxxers, the measles outbreak hits 30 states

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  Measles is on the rise: Outbreak grows to over 1,200 cases in 30 states, and the U.K. just lost its measles-free status

  The increase in measles cases is due to fewer people being vaccinated against the deadly disease, which was, at one time, declared eliminated.

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  The most important ecosystem on the planet has been burning at an unprecedented rate for three weeks and nobody has noticed

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  Brazilian rainforest 'burning at record rate'

  Brazil's space research agency says fires in the Amazon rose 83% amid increased deforestation.

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  Famous Brooklyn pizzeria closes after realizing it'll never be as good as Chicago. Also something about $167,000 in unpaid taxes

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  Famed Brooklyn pizzeria Di Fara shuttered over unpaid taxes

  Fork over the dough! The state shuttered iconic Brooklyn pizzeria Di Fara on Tuesday over more than $150,000 in unpaid taxes, officials said. "Warning: this property has been seized for nonpayment ...

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  Paradise by the sewage truck lights

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  Paradise spending $50K a day to truck sewage away from broken pump station | CBC News

  Eight trucks are continuously pumping and dumping sewage in Paradise after a major sewer system broke down.

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  Scienticians create blood test that can tell you if you will die within 10 years. Would you want to know?

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  Blood test could predict whether you will live the next 10 years

  Scientists in Germany uncovered 14 biomarkers in blood that appear to affect the risk of death, after analysing 44,000 people.

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  Search for Squidzilla and then play with flamethrowers in the Tuesday Night Science Channel Discussion Thread, 9PM Eastern

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  Smackdown Live KotR: K.O. vs Elias, Apollo vs Andrade. DBD will face Buddy Murphy and reveal the identity of Roman's attacker. Also presumably the some of the women will wrestle, but they're not worth promoting ahead of time, apparently. 8PM ET on USA

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  SmackDown LIVE preview, Aug. 20, 2019: Murphy and Bryan clash as the search for Reigns' attacker continues

  Full WWE SmackDown LIVE preview for Aug. 20, 2019, featuring Buddy Murphy vs. Daniel Bryan and two King of the Ring tournament First Round matches.

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  Throw your sense and sensibility out of the window and let the pride and prejudice in in the 8PM ET MSNBC Discussion Thread. Taco Tuesday Edition

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  Kids are tired of having too much of themselves shared online by their parents. Perspective: How would you feel if they took a picture of you and posted with caption, "Drank a bottle of wine and fell asleep on the couch, d'awww, so cute"

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  Why Kids Are Confronting Their Parents About 'Sharenting' | NYT Opinion

  

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  Requiring helmets for touch football? Why not make the sport even better by making the players wear bras and hug each other? Wouldn't that be fantastic? So exciting

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  Touch Football, Sold as Safer, Now Requires a Helmet

  A Texas program for high schools mandated soft-shell helmets after serious injuries occurred during incidental contact.

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  Woman wins woman's trophy in Ultramarathon. Woman wins first place trophy in Ultramarathon. Difficulty: There was no man's trophy

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  Woman wins 50K ultra outright and gets the 'Male' trophy too

  When Ellie Pell took first overall, the surprised race organisers realised they had no trophy for the first place male.

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  Fish heads. Fish heads. Cold frozen fish heads. Fish heads. Fish heads. AB thinks the mob's involved. Dumb

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  Chef explains how fish head mishap led to lawsuit against Antonio Brown

  Antonio Brown has been named in numerous lawsuits over the past year, and the most recent was filed by a chef who claims the Raiders wide receiver owes him nearly $40,000. The story behind the falling out between Brown and the chef is one you may have trouble believing. Brown rented a mansion in

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  The leading potential name for the new Miami MLS team is apparently the "Miami Old Lace"

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  Miami MLS stadium site has unsafe arsenic levels

  Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said Monday night that team officials said the findings could increase cleanup costs to $50 million at the site.

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  "It's hard to imagine Major League Soccer without St. Louis in it", says commissioner of a league that has operated without a presence in St. Louis for 23 continuous years

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  BenFred: Garber, Kindle Betz discuss what comes next for St. Louis MLS team

  MLS commissioner Don Garber and MLS4TheLou ownership group leader Carolyn Kindle Betz sat down with the Post-Dispatch before Tuesday's official announcement of an MLS expansion team coming to St. Louis.

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  DoorDash is still stealing tips from its contract "employees"

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  DoorDash is still pocketing workers' tips, almost a month after it promised to stop

  It's been almost a month since the delivery company promised workers it would offer details about its new tipping policy "in the coming days."

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  Tesla's solar panels seem to have something in common with their cars: the ability to suddenly burst into flames

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  Walmart slams Tesla with a lawsuit claiming its solar panels caught fire at 7 stores

  The retail giant said it has leased or licensed roof space at more than 240 stores for Tesla-supplied solar-energy systems.

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  Rule designed to prevent banks from engaging in risky trading activities, all backed by federal and taxpayer money, gets torn down a little. Wonder if they'll jump this time, when asked

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  Robot delivery service from the founders of Skype raises another $40 million

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  Is Robot Delivery The Next Big Thing? Starship Technologies Raises $40 Million To Expand In Growing Industry

  Starship Technology has raised a total of $85 million that has allowed the company to grow across the United States and Europe.

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  How are you celebrating Taco Tuesday? The owner of the trademarked phrase is celebrating by suing everyone in sight

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  Company stirs debate with defense of Taco Tuesday trademark

  In this Aug. 1, 2019 photo the corporate headquarters of Cheyenne-based Taco John's, which has nearly 400 locations in 23 states, is seen in Cheyenne, Wyo. Taco John's recently sent

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  Full moon blocks Uranus

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  Uranus 'Backs Up' in the Night Sky Ahead This Week's Full Moon

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  Scienticians create blood test that can tell you if you will die within 10 years. Would you want to know?

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  Blood test could predict whether you will live the next 10 years

  Scientists in Germany uncovered 14 biomarkers in blood that appear to affect the risk of death, after analysing 44,000 people.

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  Earth needs a huger internet

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  The Planet Needs a New Internet

  When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, we'll moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite websites, and watch diverting videos on YouTube to fill the icy hole in our hearts. We'll do all this until the websites go dark and the networks go down because eventually, climate change will come for our internet, too.

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  Bicyclists and pedestrians keep getting run over in New York. Bill de Blasio's plan at least nods to car drivers' zero vision

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  Vision Zero Is The Wrong Goal

  On February 28, 25-year-old bike messenger Aurilla Lawrence was killed by a truck driver in Brooklyn. After killing her, the truck driver did not stop. Following a familiar pattern whenever a cyclist is killed by a driver, the NYPD rushed to make excuses for the driver, hypothesizing the driver didn't stop because they didn't realize they had hit someone. According to a lawyer who viewed footage of the nighttime crash, as reported by Streetsblog, the truck approached Lawrence from behind and accelerated past her.

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  "A deep dive into how parasites hijack our behavior and how we evolved to resist them". Headline can be used to sum up research paper as well as subby's first marriage

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  A deep dive into how parasites hijack our behavior and how we evolved to resist them

  A deep dive into how parasites hijack our behavior and how we evolved to resist them

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  Because if there's one thing Game of Thrones taught us, it's that the more money you throw at it, the better the TV experience

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  Apple's "The Morning Show" costs more per episode than "Game of Thrones"

  The star-studded Apple TV+ exclusive may become the most expensive TV show ever.

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  Look out ladies, Larry King is back on the prowl

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  Larry King Files for Divorce from Wife Shawn After 22-Year Marriage

  Larry King files for divorce from Shawn King after 22-year marriage.

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  Mary Lynn Rajskub aka Gail the Snail to divorce after ten years. Let's hope it doesn't get too salty

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  '24' Star Mary Lynn Rajskub Files for Divorce

  Mary Lynn Rajskub who played Chloe O'Brian on the hit show "24" is divorcing her husband of 10 years.

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  Wanting to avoid Fan Fan Bing scenario, Chinese Pop stars rally round the flag, cheer on Hong Kong police in their quest to bust some heads and stifle independence protests

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  Chinese K-Pop Stars Voice Support for Beijing's One-China Policy on Hong Kong

  One member of popular group EXO has shown Chinese pride on Instagram

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  ♪♫ "Sony-Man, Sony-Man, does whatever without Disney's clan, Can he fight and prevail, without Marvel he just might fail, To them - Wherever there's a crawl suit, Life is a great big law suit, There goes your Sony-Man ♪♫

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  Marvel And Sony's Spider-Man Deal Has Reportedly Come To An Abrupt End

  Wow! Just... wow....

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  Dead father, got daughter pregnant AFTER a vasectomy. It's not Springer, but it did happen in Ohio. I'm not lion

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  Columbus Zoo welcomes litter of 3 lion cubs

  Mother Naomi is said to be doing well and is being very attentive to the cubs, who appear to be healthy.

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  An extremely endangered animal born in St. Louis. Is it cute? You bet your ass

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  Saint Louis Zoo welcomes rare Somali wild ass foal

  Welcome, Tobias!

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  California commuter overjoyed to learn the construction traffic he's stuck in will one day yield a bridge that allows mountain lions to fornicate

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  California Overpass Will Serve As World's Largest Wildlife Crossing

  As the rapid development of the already heavily developed Southern California continues without an apparent end, the regions most prominent victims of the process may finally be receiving some ...

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  Rabbit or Raven? The internet cannot decide

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  Animal being stroked in viral clip confirmed as a raven

  A researcher has revealed the animal being stroked in his viral clip is a raven - after the illusion left thousands thinking it could be a rabbit on August 18. The 'nictitating membrane' is the giveaway.

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  Dog days of summer, they're ruff

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  Dog Days of Summer Explained (with dogs)

  

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  The Wienermobile once crashed into a house

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  10 Frank Facts About the Wienermobile

  America's most famous food-themed vehicle was once driven by a little person in a chef's hat named "Little Oscar."

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  Coffee Festival: Coffee + Music, Coffee + Gardening, Coffee + Yoga, Coffee + Axes(my favorite), Coffee + Kittens(for Caturday), Coffee + Watercolors...Did I mention coffee?

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  Columbus Coffee Festival Returns for Two Days! - ColumbusUnderground.com

  Join us for the 4th annual Columbus Coffee Festival on September 28 and 29 at the Ohio Village!

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  Do you like to eat tofu? Do you also still enjoy meat? If you answered yes to both of these you are apparently a cultural appropriator

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  Vegan tells meat-eater they're appropriating veganism by eating tofu

  'Tofu is strictly for vegans and vegetarians.'

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  Seafood fraud investigation DNA tests fish sold in the US and discovers something smells fishy... and also there's lots of fraud

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  A seafood fraud investigation DNA tested fish sold in the US - 20% were mislabelled

  What if the fish on your plate is not the fish you thought you were ordering? A study of seafood sold in food stores, restaurants and sushi outlets in the United States has found that a fifth is mislabelled.

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  Wendy's, Chick-Fil-A, and Popeye's are in a three-way fight over chicken sandwiches

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  Who has the best chicken sandwich? Popeyes, Chick-fil-A and Wendy's are clucking on social media

  A week after Popeyes first nationwide chicken sandwich was released, the fast-food chain started a Twitter feud with competitor Chick-fil-A.

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  Trump plans to detain migrant families for even longer

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  Boris Johnson's girlfriend denied US visa (possible nsfw content on page)

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  Boris outrage: Shock as PM's girlfriend Carrie Symonds BARRED from the US for visa refusal

  CARRIE SYMONDS, the partner of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has been denied a visa to travel to the US for work.

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  Mark Taylor goes full Pizzagate and says "patriots" will begin executing Democrats if Trump doesn't start making mass arrests in January

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  Mark Taylor: 'Patriots' Will Murder High-Profile Democrats in the Streets if Trump Doesn't Carry Out Mass Arrests by January | Right Wing Watch

  During his recent appearance on Sheila Zilinsky's podcast, Mark Taylor, a radical right-wing conspiracy theorist and so-called "firefighter prophet," claimed that God had told him that if President Trump doesn't start carrying out mass arrests ...

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  State Department sells 66 F-16s to Taiwan. China shouldn't have messed with our soybean farmers, I guess

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  Political-Military Affairs, US Dept of State on Twitter

  ".@StateDept authorizes a proposed Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Taipei Economic & Cultural Representative Office in the United States #TECRO for up to 66 F-16C/D Block 70 Aircraft valued at $8 billion @StateDeptPM @USAsiaPacific @eAsiaMediaHub #FMSupdate-https://t.co/Fr6L2fjOLj"

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  If you expect to remain director of the state Civil Rights Commission, you shouldn't make disparaging comments about women. In front of other employees. In the hallway at a middle school

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  Arbulu takes leave of absence from Civil Rights department after comments objectifying women

  The Michigan Civil Rights Commission announced the move on Tuesday.

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