The Truth About Ben Carson and the Company He Says He Never Had ‘Any Kind of Relationship’ With

Last night’s Republican presidential debate was hardly lacking in demonstrable lies uttered with total conviction. One of the more audacious was Ben Carson’s claim that he never had “any kind of relationship” with controversial nutritional-supplement company Mannatech... By Eric Levitz.
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Philadelphia police join call to boycott Quentin Tarantino movies

All 14,000 Members of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 have joined officers in New York and Los Angeles in calling for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s films. “Tarantino has shown through his actions that he is anti-police,” the group’s president, John McNesby, said in a statement. “Mr. Tarantino has made a good living through his films, projecting into society at large violence and respect for criminals; he it turns out also hates cops.”
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North Korea's slave labor force is growing, U.N. special rapporteur says

The number of North Korean workers enslaved abroad is growing, and many are forced to work as long as 20 hours a day while the regime embezzles hundreds of millions of dollars from their pay. Marzuki Darusman, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, said the growing exploitation of North Korean workers by the regime in Pyongyang "reflects the really tight financial and economic situation in the North," CNN reported.
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Springtime for Grifters

**Submitter's note: to avoid paywall restrictions, always browse this site in privacy/incognito mode.** The scammers — some looking for votes, some just to line their pockets — figure their victims won’t believe the truths presented by mainstream media.
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Atheistophobia: It’s time to talk about the most persecuted minority in the world

While apologists create mendacious claims of the “New Atheist” threat that is persecuting Muslims – very little attention is given to how atheists have been a persecuted minority for centuries
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Special Series - Putin's Russia: Kremlin Rules

Twenty-five years after the Cold War, fear of Russia's regional ambitions seems once again to be on the rise; while many Russians, in turn, feel threatened and misunderstood by the West.The country's president, Vladimir Putin, had said that he would "reclaim what was rightfully Russia's", and now this seems to be playing out in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. So how do Russians feel about their president and his "strong armed" way of governing?
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Severe Storms, Possible Tornadoes, Flooding Slam South-Central Texas

Here's what we know about the impacts from this round of severe weather.
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