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How to hide your data from the NSA
>Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow his updates on Twitter or add him to your Circles on Google+.(CNN) -- Let's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. But having concerns about NSA cybersnooping doesn't mean we must surrender all privacy -- what's left of it -- in our day-to-day online ...
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CNN BuzzFeed 9 beauty queen fails
>Editor's note: This post was created for your reading pleasure as a collaborative effort between the editorial staffs of BuzzFeed and CNN.(CNN) -- Pageants are nerve-wracking. Participants are judged on every aspect of their looks, personality and ability to discuss anything from affirmative action to peace in the Middle East -- all in front of thousands, sometimes millions of people. As ...
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Four U.S. forces killed in attack in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four U.S. forces were killed in an attack on Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity, just as the United States prepares for talks this week with the Taliban.The official said insurgents attacked the base with some kind of indirect fire, leaving open the possibility it was hit by rockets or mortar rounds. No ...
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Brazil protesters clash with police in Sao Paulo
Protestors gather in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broke out across this continent-sized country, uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy tax burden. (AP Photo/Nelson ...
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Jerusalem solar-energy firm hopes to build 8.5-MW field in Rwandan youth village
The developing nation of Rwanda - through the vision of a Jerusalem-based team led by American-Israeli Yosef Abramowitz - may soon become home to an 8.5- megawatt solar oasis capable of providing 8 percent of the country's energy supply.Although Abramowitz's Energiya Global and the Rwandan government are still working on signing a final agreement, the company provided a progress ...
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US Senate unfazed on sanctions after Rohani win
WASHINGTON - US senators are pushing forward with a new sanctions package against Iran despite the victory of moderate Hassan Rohani in last week's election, sources ...
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Ben-Dahan If Netanyahu backs Lau for chief rabbi it would violate coalition agreement
Deputy Religious Services Minister Eli Ben-Dahan (Bayit Yehudi) said on Tuesday that if Likud were to support any candidate for the position of Ashkenazi chief rabbi other than the one recommended by Bayit Yehudi, it would constitute a violation of the coalition agreement between the two parties.Ben-Dahan was reacting to reports in the media that Natan Eshel - a senior advisor to Prime ...
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Iran and U.S. New hope
>Editor's note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com. He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Follow him on Twitter.(CNN) -- It would be easy to dismiss Friday's election of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran as little more than a sham -- a rigged election that ...
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Swiss drive out Knoxs ex-lover Rafaelle Sollecito forced to abandon country after his residence permit is revoked
Rafaelle Sollecito served four years in prison for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher, who was found half naked, her throat slit, in the flat she shared with Knox in ...
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Queen waves happily at Royal Ascot alongside Duke and Duchess of Cornwall despite Prince Philips absence
The Queen cut a fashionable figure on day one of Royal Ascot as she appeared in a fondant pink suit - joined by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, ...
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Dave Prentis accuses Kate Middleton of being a young woman having babies to get state handouts
The leader of one of Labour’s biggest union backers sparked fury tonight after likening Kate Middleton to ‘young women having babies to get state ...
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Italian Supreme Court rules Meredith Kercher murder was a sex game gone wrong and order Amanda Knox back for trial
Italy's high court today faulted the acquittal of Amanda Knox by the appeals court for the murder of her roommate, ruling that it WAS a 'sex game gone wrong' and ordered her back for ...
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Germans want Brussels to increase the use of their language... putting it on a par with English and French
Campaign: Angela Merkel's conservatives want the German language used more regularly in European institutions and treated on a par with English and ...
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The people have spoken
>Editor's note: John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN Opinion and head of Change the List. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com.(CNN) -- Remember that scene at the end of that Facebook Movie ("The Social Network") when Mark Zuckerberg's character sits alone at a computer screen hitting the refresh button over and over again -- stuck in a loop of anxiety and ...
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The people have spoken
>Editor's note: John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN Opinion and head of Change the List. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com.(CNN) -- Remember that scene at the end of that Facebook Movie ("The Social Network") when Mark Zuckerberg's character sits alone at a computer screen hitting the refresh button over and over again -- stuck in a loop of anxiety and ...
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Jan Brewer’s Obamacare Deception
At least for now (although a statewide referendum may be pending), Arizona governor Jan Brewer, a Republican, has succeeded in her efforts to implement a key part of Obamacare in her state. Brewer has very aggressively -- and entirely voluntarily -- spearheaded the charge to implement Obamacare's massive Medicaid expansion on her watch. She now claims, however, that she's not really ...
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Sunni-Shiite violence hits Lebanese city of Sidon
Gunmen and followers of hardline Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir pass in front of Lebanese army soldiers in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon | Mohammed ...
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Preconditions have no basis in law or fact
The recent statements by Nabil Shaath, senior member of the Palestinian Authority negotiating team, and others, promising a return to negotiations if Israel agrees to Palestinian preconditions and commits to "negotiate on the basis of the 1967 borders," and to freeze settlement-building, constitute a typical example of Palestinian political manipulation, duplicity and sheer ...
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Obama and Putin Signal a More Businesslike Path
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No formal investigation into fatal North Battleford plane crash
RCMP responded June 13, 2013, after a small float plane crashed at Cameron McIntosh Airport in North Battleford. Shane Buchanan, 40, was an experienced float plane pilot and the owner of an outfitting company that specialized in hunting trips to Northern B.C. His 63-year-old father, Chuck Buchanan, was an accomplished artist and founder of the Yukon Museum of Natural History. Both died in the ...
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Ohio residents held disabled woman in slavery government charges
U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach (C) talks at a news conference alongside Stephen Anthony (L) of the FBI and Ashland City Police Lieutenant Joel Icenhour, about the arrest of three individuals accused of human trafficking in Ashland county, at the Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk CLEVELAND - Three Ohio residents are accused of holding a cognitively disabled ...
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Millions Of Jeeps Recalled Over Fuel Tank Fears
Chrysler has avoided a showdown with government safety regulators, agreeing to recall 2.7 million older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs that could be at risk of a fuel tank fire. Earlier this month the company defiantly refused the government's request to recall the Jeeps. But Chrysler now says it will go ahead with the recall after getting calls from worried customers. The ...
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Moves to limit contractor access to secrets meets resistance
(Reuters) - Industry executives and some corners of the U.S. intelligence community are pushing back against possible legislative moves to curb contractors' access to classified ...
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U.S. says surveillance thwarted NYSE attack Somali funding
(Reuters) WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday identified two of the more than 50 classified cases in which they say National Security Agency eavesdropping helped thwart terrorist plots including a planned attack on the New York Stock ...
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Stocks surge on latest hopes for Fed
NEW YORK It's all about the Fed. Still. U.S. stocks moved higher Tuesday, helped by news of a pickup in home building and low inflation. But the Federal Reserve loomed large, with investors trying to guess what the central bank will say Wednesday about how long it plans to keep stimulus programs in place. For many, Tuesday was just a holding pattern as they waited for Wednesday's ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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