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The Miami Herald | 2015-08-26

Colorado theater shooter gets life in prison plus 3,318 years

The man who unleashed a murderous attack on a packed Colorado movie theater was ordered Wednesday to serve life in prison without parole plus 3,318 years – the...

Greece's Tsipras rules out most potential coalition partners

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's prime minister on Wednesday raised the political stakes ahead of next month's early national election, saying he will not enter a...

The Times of India | 2015-08-26

White House presses Congress to act on gun control after TV shooting

WASHINGTON: The White House on Wednesday issued a rapid call for Congress to pass gun control laws, after two journalists were shot to death during a live...

USA Today | 2015-08-26

Electronic-sniffer dog found Jared Fogle's flash drive with child porn

A black labrador named Bear sniffed out a hidden drive in Jared Fogle's house that is crucial to the child pornography case against him. Gillian Pensavalle...

The Guardian | 2015-08-26

Family breaks open pregnant teenager's coffin in fear she was buried alive

Relatives of a pregnant Honduran teenager, who had been buried after being pronounced dead at a hospital, broke down her tomb and pulled out her coffin after apparently hearing banging from the inside. ...

Mashable | 2015-08-26

The Pentagon finally has a replacement for the aging Humvee

Say goodbye to the Humvee, and hello to the Oshkosh Light Combat Tactical All-Terrain Vehicle. After nine years of competition, the Pentagon has made Oshkosh...

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The Guardian | 2015-08-26

Banning child labour imposes naive western ideals on complex problems

Businesses in developing countries should be encouraged to provide safe conditions for child workers to provide a family income ...

The Guardian | 2015-08-25

Our lust for Chinese investment has caught us out, Ashley Madison-style

China was always the Ashley Madison of public money. Finance ministers with an infrastructure problem would sneak off to Beijing for a quickie billion and return with smiles on their faces. The Chinese seemed willing and no one need know. George Osborne and David Cameron have done it for HS2 and Hinkley Point. Boris Johnson can’t keep his hands off Chinese skyscrapers. Now something dreadful has happened. Someone has told the Chinese people where their savings have been going. Does it matter? Of course it matters. Any student of economic history knows that when a swiftly urbanising economy exports its surplus savings – as Britain did in the late-19th century – it loses touch with reality and goes into recession. Money is tipped into African railways, Brazilian mines and Russian bonds. China has been tipping cash into worthless transport and energy projects around the world, or storing it in empty London towers. It encourages reckless governments to get involved with stupid projects that no sane banker would support. ...

The Guardian | 2015-08-25

Help me trace the book that prompted my political awakening

I wish I could tell you the title of the book that changed me, but I can’t. In fact, I’m hoping that you can tell me. My searches over the years have revealed nothing. Did I imagine it? Could I have written it in my own fevered head? No, I remember it as clearly as anything from my childhood. ...