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California nuclear power plant workers filmed this amazing Star Trek spoof inside the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's simulator. (via 10News )
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Nevada Assemblyman James Healey, who is gay, speaks in favor of repealing the language in the state constitution that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in the Nevada Assembly voted 27-14 on Thursday to reverse the state's 2002 marriage amendment, and while the state Senate had already voted to end the ban, Nevada same-sex couples won't have a shot at marriage until 2016.
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FBI personnel walk through the complex surrounding the apartment where Ibragim Todashev, 27, was shot and killed during an interview. WASHINGTON - Advocates for the Chechen diaspora are downplaying fears in the community that Russian intelligence agents are using the FBI's investigation into the Boston bombing to intimidate and harass dissidents in the United States.
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As New York City's mayoral race shuffles around the entrance of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is hanging on to his position at the left end of the Democratic primary field.
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Google just launched a new version of Hangouts that integrates it right into the Gchat spot on your inbox. For the most part, the Gchat experience is mostly the same, but there's one new feature that functions very differently. Your "buddy list" isn't just your contacts, it's a rolodex of all of Google+.
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Daft Punk's long-awaited fourth album, Random Access Memories, is both the most commercially successful and most polarizing record of their career, with the French duo trading the straight-up dance music of their classic LPs Homework and Discovery in favor of an organic, luxuriously produced set of songs that call back to the '70s.
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Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen has suddenly become a populist - at least that's what his lawyers are trying to argue. Cohen and several of his SAC Capital executives are facing potential federal racketeering charges as part of a long-running insider trading investigation.
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WASHINGTON - Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly refuses to use the word "scandal." After two weeks of brutal news cycles - with frenzied Republicans and a hyped up press corps aggressively covering every inch of three controversies surrounding the Obama administration - Connolly insists this too, shall pass.
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Jack Moore: From the first moment I met you, Adam, I knew there was something fundamentally wrong with you. Don't get me wrong, you're a great guy. You're nice and smart and you bring amazing desserts to the office, but I knew there was a problem with you even if I couldn't tell what it was.
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Beyoncé covers Ms. magazine under the headline "Beyoncé's Fierce Feminism." The internet's knee jerk reaction - which has gotten more attention in the media then the actual story itself - has been to rudely refute, or at least to politely question, Beyoncé's feminist status. You really consider her a feminist?