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1. This CIA toolkit is built for concealing in a spy's butt
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Everyday carry? From Atlas Obscura: This CIA-issued tool kit was issued to CIA officers during the height of the Cold War. It was a way for spies to get themselves out of sticky situations: to pick ...

2. Angry Christians riot and throw firebomb at a museum that exhibits 'McJesus' sculpture
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... a firebomb at the museum and stones at police officers, injuring three of them. Police then used tear gas and stun grenades against the crowd. According to NBC: Church representatives brought their grievances ...

3. Measles warning in Los Angeles, New York outbreak surges
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... healthcare provider by phone right away before going in," Dr. Muntu Davis, the county's health officer, said in a statement. The alert comes amid a slew of measles outbreaks in recent months, nearly two ...

4. Miami Airport is shutting down a 15-gate terminal that includes United over the weekend because of shutdown
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... last week. "They are calling out because they don't have the funds to make it work." "The loss of officers, while we're already shorthanded, will create a massive security risk for American travelers since ...

5. Drug-sniffing doggo OD'd at EDM cruise ship checkpoint, given Narcan, will be OK
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Jake the police dog was screening passengers boarding the Norwegian Epic cruise ship for the Holy Ship! EDM festival on the ocean. Jake alerted his police officer companion that he smelled something suspicious ...

6. School police officer removed after ticketing principal for parking in disabled space
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At Jefferson K-8 School in Warren, Ohio, school police officer Adam Chinchik noticed that a car kept parking in the no-parking zone between two disabled spaces in front of the school. Turns out that it ...

7. How Impossible Foods cooked up Impossible Burger 2.0
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Inside White Castle on the Las Vegas Strip I met David Lipman, Impossible Foods's Chief Science Officer, whose father was a butcher. It's a funny quirk for someone who's working to sell ...

8. Woman in ten-year coma gives birth at care facility, police seeking DNA of workers
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... executive officer, Bill Timmons, resigned Monday. Read the rest Read all  ...

9. Police nab gentleman who was caught on camera licking doorbell
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... and "bleached the doorknobs." From the newspaper: Officers knew Arroyo because they have encountered him several times previously, (Salinas Police spokesperson Miguel) Cabrera said... The case has ...

10. London Heathrow airport departures halted after drone sighting
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... near Heathrow at roughly 17:05 GMT. "As a precautionary measure, Heathrow Airport has stopped departures and officers based at Heathrow are currently investigating the reports with colleagues from Heathrow ...

11. Travel warning: four days until Trump's shut-down costs TSA screeners their first paycheck
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... but who will, someday, get a paycheck to cover their forced labor. In the latter group are 51,739 TSA "officers" (TSA screeners aren't cops, but they've adopted the "officer" honorific in a bid to secure ...

12. Tennessee doctors make a fortune kicking disabled people off Medicare
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... problems in the program (and not just any whistleblower: Dr. John Mather was formerly chief medical officer for disability programs at the federal Social Security Administration before he retired and took ...

13. 3 dead, 4 injured in bowling alley shooting
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... officers discovered multiple subjects with gunshot wounds inside the location," it said. "Officers began life-saving measures which included CPR and the use of a defibrillator. The Torrance Fire Department ...

14. Hunter caught killing an illegal deer tries to blame his wife
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... the Michigan hunter was caught with an illegal spike horn buck, he at first tried to deny it. But when a conservation officer cornered him, saying there was a witness to the deer shooting, he hung his ...

15. Gentleman attempts to steal bike parked at police station
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... the bike for himself so he went to work on the lock with a bolt cutter. A few seconds later, a police officer emerged from the station and arrested the chagrined lad. Read the rest Read all  ...

16. Police mourn loss of donut delivery truck
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... ... We hope you like sprinkles," The New York City Police Department tweeted. The doughnut company based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, itself offered condolences via Twitter and let the officers know ...

17. Netflix reportedly poaches Activision executive to fill CFO role
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After months of searching, Netflix appears to have a replacement for outgoing chief financial officer David Wells... and it's creating corporate drama in the process. Reuters and Wall Street Journal ...

18. Fallen officer honored
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Detective Deirdre Mengedoht was killed when a truck crashed into her police cruiser on Christmas Eve. Some local news outlets experienced difficulties covering the story. Read the rest Read all

19. Help Wanted: a Data and Democracy specialist for for the UK Open Rights Group
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ORG -- the UK Open Rights Group (disclosure: I am a co-founder and volunteers on its advisory board) is hiring a Data and Democracy Project Officer: "responsible for delivering our work on preserving ...

20. Shoplifting suspect ran from police... to the police station
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A Cincinnati gentleman, running from a police officer who spotted him shoplifting from Walmart, accidentally ran right to the rear entrance of the nearby police station. According to police, "(Jeremy) ...

21. Syracuse cops falsely accuse man of rectal dope-stashing and take him to hospital for nonconsensual anal probe; now he must pay $4600 for the procedure
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In October 2017, Syracuse cops arrested Torrence Jackson with a small amount of marijuana and accused him of hiding drugs in his rectum (the officers say they saw him shift in his seat and concluded that ...

22. Facing unpaid overtime, cuts and austerity, French cops threaten to join Gilets Jaunes protesters
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... from the national police budget. The government is offering a one-off bonus of around $342 to each officer deployed to face the gilets jaunes protests, totaling around $37.7 million. But this may not ...

23. Alabama cops blame Satan in area homicides
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... RAISE OUR CHILDREN, NOT HAVE THEM RAISE US. IT IS TIME TO FULLY SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT AND STAND BY THE OFFICERS AND DEPUTIES THAT ARE FAR TOO OFTEN HAVING TO WALK INTO THESE DANGEROUS SITUATIONS AND ...

24. 760 flights diverted from Gatwick airport after drone scare, affecting 110,000 passengers
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... from stray shot, airport police chose not shoot down the drone. Gatwick chief operating officer Chris Woodroofe said: "The police are looking for the operator and that is the way to disable the drone." He ...

25. US Treasury sanctions Russians for hacking and election meddling
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... officers (some of whom were targeted in earlier i... Read all  ...