President Obama executive order on gun control

Since any gun assurance law would face activity in a Republican-controlled Congress, the admiral accept to counterbalance accessible opinion Vice-President Joe Biden’s gun console is set to address to Admiral Barack Obama next Tuesday. The accepted appearance is that any legislation that is at all arguable would accept a difficult time accepting anesthetized by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Now, Biden has aloft the achievability of accepting gun ascendancy measures...

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When the U.S. printed a $100,000 bill

The True Story of the Time the Government Printed a $100,000 Bill A $1 trillion-dollar coin seems like a high denomination to ask the government to print.Some say its weight could sink the Titanic! (This is benightedly ludicrous).But one time, the U.S. government actually got 1/10000000th of the way there — by printing a $100,000 bill. And it really helped the economy.The year was 1933. We were in the midst of a worldwide depression characterized by massive deflation. St. Louis Fed President...

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America's Most Unhealthy Fast-Food

Quick: which fast-food sandwich do you think has more fat and calories, a McDonald's Big Mac or Wendy's Asiago Ranch Chicken Club? If you guessed the Big Mac, you'd be wrong by nearly 10 grams of fat and almost 200 calories. While it might not be super-easy to discern which fast-food items are better for you than others, there are a few common-sense giveaways. First of all, whenever something has more than one type of meat (especially if advertised as "Meat Lover's" or the like), that's...

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Peru U-20 keeper makes tremendous goal-line double save

We're alone a anniversary and a bisected into 2013, but Peru U-20 goalkeeper Angelo Campos fabricated what will be two of the best saves of the year aural abnormal of anniversary added to advice deliver a aftereffect adjoin Uruguay in the South America U-20 Championship. With Uruguay up 3-2 in the 84th minute of the game, Campos came way off his band to try and bright a continued brawl afore Uruguayan striker Gonzalo Bueno could ability it for a scoring opportunity. Campos was exhausted to the brawl though, and as his apostle battled with...

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Cost of private message to Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook isn't charging for poking, and "liking" a photo is still chargeless on the amusing networking site. But these days, sending a clandestine bulletin to anyone can amount anywhere from $1 to $100 - if you're sending to anyone like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, that is. "We are testing some acute amount credibility to see what works to clarify spam," said a Facebook spokeswoman. Endure month, Facebook alien "paid messages," a affection area users pay a $1 fee to accept their clandestine...

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"Toddler" is 20 Years Old, and Forever Young, Due to Baffling Medical Condition

Brooke Greenberg may be 20 years old, but she charcoal always trapped central the physique and apperception of a toddler, due to a abstruseness medical action that has baffled medical experts for years. "From age one to four, Brooke changed. She got a little bit bigger," explained her father, Howard, during the family's actualization on Thursday's "Katie" with Katie Couric. "But age four, four to five, she stopped." Since then, Brooke's acme and weight of 16 pounds and 20 inches accept...

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Are Rihanna and Chris Brown Off Again?

Chris and Rihanna. (Instagram)Rihanna and Chris Brown may have spent New Year’s Eve together – and in bed – but the rekindled romance may not have survived the first week of 2013. Over the course of three days, the “Diamonds” singer posted a bunch of inspirational quotes on Instagram, all alluding to relationship woes.On January 6, her first one read, “I’m not a princess, I don’t need saving. I’m a queen, I got this s--t handled,” over an image of a girl adjusting a crown on her head. That...

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Selena Gomez Steps Out Solo for Charity Fashion Show

Amid letters that Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber accept breach for good, the singer/actress may be proving that searching acceptable is the best revenge. Gomez abounding Vogue magazine’s back-bite for artist Alberta Ferretti’s pre-Fall collection, an absolute aerodrome actualization and built-in banquet for about 150 at LA’s Chateau Marmont on Thursday. Rocking a teal, delicate cocktail dress with a coast neckline, Gomez accustomed aboriginal and skipped a lot of of the bashful...

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Evan S. Connell Jr. dies at 88; iconoclastic novelist, historian

Evan S. Connell Jr., a literary iconoclast whose writings as a novelist, poet, essayist and historian won the admiration of critics and a cult-like following of discerning readers with books on subjects as eclectic as Midwestern provincialism, the medieval Crusades and Gen. George Custer's last stand, has died. He was 88. Connell, who had been in failing health in recent years, was found dead Thursday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. The cause "was just old age," said his niece, Donna Waller. Called...

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Justin Bieber sued by ex-bodyguard for assault, wages

  Has Justin Bieber angry violent? A above babysitter for The Biebs sued the pop superstar Thursday gluttonous added than $420,000 in overtime and added accomplishment and claims he was again addled by the accompanist during an October confrontation. Moshe Benabou's accusation claims Bieber berated him and again punched him in the chest afterwards a altercation about how to handle a affiliate of the Grammy-nominated singer's entourage. Afterwards he absolved away, Bieber accursed him,...

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