Scott Walker: Released Documents Are ‘Old News’

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says thousands of internal documents released publicly this week are “old news.”
Walker also added that while that investigation is closed, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s problems are “just beginning.”
Both Republicans are considering…
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Scott Walker: Released Documents Are ‘Old News’

Watch List: ‘Betas,’ Streaming on Amazon, Is About Life at a Start-Up

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Joe Dinicol, left, and Karan Soni in “Betas,” a series about a crew trying to create an app, which is beginning on Amazon.

“Betas” represents such an amalgam of digital story lines — it’s about a Silicon Valley start-up, and it’s bankrolled and hosted by an Internet behemoth, Amazon — t…
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Watch List: ‘Betas,’ Streaming on Amazon, Is About Life at a Start-Up

Scientists Cracked Open 507-Year-Old Clam

(Newser) – The oldest animal ever known lived from 1499 until the day researchers cracked its shell open, killing it in the process. Ming, an ocean quahog from the species Arctica islandica, was initially thought to be 402 years old but the scientists who found it on a seabed near Iceland in 2…
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Scientists Cracked Open 507-Year-Old Clam

MSNBC’s Taylor: GOP Came From ‘Old Dixiecrats’ Who ‘Wouldn’t Want Black and Brown People’ ‘In Their Community’

On Tuesday’s PoliticsNation show, MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor described the Republican Party as “built out of the old Dixiecrats” who “wouldn’t want black and brown people living in their community” as she and host Al Sharpton responded to RNC Chairman…
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MSNBC’s Taylor: GOP Came From ‘Old Dixiecrats’ Who ‘Wouldn’t Want Black and Brown People’ ‘In Their Community’

MSNBC’s Taylor: GOP Came From ‘Old Dixiecrats’ Who ‘Wouldn’t Want Black and Brown People’ ‘In Their Community’

On Tuesday’s PoliticsNation show, MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor described the Republican Party as “built out of the old Dixiecrats” who “wouldn’t want black and brown people living in their community” as she and host Al Sharpton responded to RNC Chairman…
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MSNBC’s Taylor: GOP Came From ‘Old Dixiecrats’ Who ‘Wouldn’t Want Black and Brown People’ ‘In Their Community’

Iran’s new president calls Israel an ‘old wound’

In this Sunday, July 14, 2013 photo released by the official website of the office of Iranian President-elect Hasan Rouhani, Rouhani, center, arrives for a meeting with lawmakers at the parliament, in Tehran, Iran. The Iranian president’s inner circle brings more than new names to…
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Iran’s new president calls Israel an ‘old wound’

Weekly Review

A 29-year-old technology-infrastructure analyst named Edward Snowden provided the Guardian newspaper a secret court order compelling Verizon Business Services to release to the National Security Administration metadata from all customer phone calls on an “ongoing daily basis,” and revealed…
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