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Uber Office Spotted With Segregated Bathrooms for Drivers and 'Employees'
Uber has gone to great lengths to explain that its global network drivers - the workers it relies on for profit - are not, in fact, drivers at all.
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Massive Viking Ship Found Buried On Island For A Millennium Using Radar
Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar found a big mound carved into a western Norwegian island - along with the remains of a "huge" ship as long as 55 feet, Paasche told The Washington Post, in a discovery that may tell new tales about how the ships evolved to become fearsome and agile vessels more than 1,000 years ago.
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Indian American Ignored Man's Catcalls. So He Killed Her: Prosecutors
Ruth George, a physical therapy student, wanted to help other people heal, her family said in the wake of her death.
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This Hotel Offers A Room Only For $1 Per Night, But Here's Your End Of The Deal
The voyeurs around the world logged onto a YouTube stream Wednesday, hoping to see a random hotel guest scurry about their room. Instead, the viewers were greeted with an empty manager's chair and a whiteboard registering mutual disappointment: The guest canceled tonight . . .
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Cops Knew War Veteran Was US Citizen. Immigration Detained Him Anyway.
Six years after his combat service in Afghanistan, Jilmar Ramos-Gomez sat in an immigrant detention center in Michigan, contemplating how a U.S. citizen and war veteran could get sucked into a Kafkaesque deportation void.
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Disney+ Launch Marred by Glitches as Demand Overwhelms
Disney+ is now available in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands, and will launch in Australia and New Zealand on November 19.
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Trump Tweets Doctored Photo Of Him Honouring Dog Who Chased ISIS Chief
In a somber White House ceremony in July 2017, President Donald Trump draped the Medal of Honor around the neck of James McCloughan, who was credited with saving the lives of 10 men in a brutal, days-long battle in Vietnam. Trump told the former Army medic that "we are in awe of your actions and your bravery."
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Freed After Livestreaming Wreck That Killed Her Sister, She Crashed Again
Obdulia Sanchez thought she was going to jail for a long time after killing her sister in a booze-fueled car crash streamed on Instagram.
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"Not Sure Who Fired": Cop Killed With His Own Gun, Police In Dilemma
It was just past midnight on Sunday when Brian Mulkeen and two of his colleagues patrolled a neighborhood in the northern Bronx, tasked with ferreting out gang activity.
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Woman Fights For A Third Face As Body Rejects Transplant
Carmen Blandin Tarleton does not want to go backward. She is fighting for a third face.
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After Teen Told Restaurant He Had Dairy Allergy, Birthday Meal Killed Him
The teenager opted for a grilled chicken breast, but just to be safe, Owen alerted the Byron chain staff about his dairy allergy. It appeared he was satisfied with what he was told, and after ordering from a menu that made no mention of it, dug into a meal that had been marinated in buttermilk.
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Man Told Starbucks Worker His Name Was Aziz. She Wrote "ISIS" On His Cup
Niquel Johnson paid for three drinks in Philadelphia on Sunday, and in typical Starbucks fashion, an employee asked for his name. Johnson, 40, told them "Aziz," his Islamic name pronounced ah-zeez. He has used it for 25 years - and "countless" times at that particular store. The employee wrote his name as "ISIS" - the acronym for the Islamic terror...
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Secretive Space Drone Just Broke Its Own Orbit Record, and Almost No One Knows What It's Doing
The X-37B - the Air Force's ultra-secretive, astronaut-free spacecraft that looks like a miniaturized space shuttle - just broke its own flight record of 719 days in continuous orbit.
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Secretive US Space Drone Broke Its Orbit Record Of 719 Days
The X-37B - the Air Force's ultra-secretive, astronaut-free spacecraft that looks like a miniaturized space shuttle - just broke its own flight record of 719 days in continuous orbit.
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Mia Khalifa Made $12,000 For Dozen Shoots. Porn Industry Kept Moolah
In a Miami home rental in late 2014, a camera crewman peered through a viewfinder and brought Mia Khalifa into focus. The pornography film crew gathered at the Airbnb to shoot the scene featuring Khalifa in a hijab. It was a moment that would dominate adult-film sites for years and prompt beheading threats from Islamic State supporters.
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Uber Office Spotted With Segregated Bathrooms for Drivers and 'Employees'
Uber has gone to great lengths to explain that its global network drivers - the workers it relies on for profit - are not, in fact, drivers at all.
-
Massive Viking Ship Found Buried On Island For A Millennium Using Radar
Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar found a big mound carved into a western Norwegian island - along with the remains of a "huge" ship as long as 55 feet, Paasche told The Washington Post, in a discovery that may tell new tales about how the ships evolved to become fearsome and agile vessels more than 1,000 years ago.
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Indian American Ignored Man's Catcalls. So He Killed Her: Prosecutors
Ruth George, a physical therapy student, wanted to help other people heal, her family said in the wake of her death.
-
This Hotel Offers A Room Only For $1 Per Night, But Here's Your End Of The Deal
The voyeurs around the world logged onto a YouTube stream Wednesday, hoping to see a random hotel guest scurry about their room. Instead, the viewers were greeted with an empty manager's chair and a whiteboard registering mutual disappointment: The guest canceled tonight . . .
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Cops Knew War Veteran Was US Citizen. Immigration Detained Him Anyway.
Six years after his combat service in Afghanistan, Jilmar Ramos-Gomez sat in an immigrant detention center in Michigan, contemplating how a U.S. citizen and war veteran could get sucked into a Kafkaesque deportation void.
-
Disney+ Launch Marred by Glitches as Demand Overwhelms
Disney+ is now available in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands, and will launch in Australia and New Zealand on November 19.
-
Trump Tweets Doctored Photo Of Him Honouring Dog Who Chased ISIS Chief
In a somber White House ceremony in July 2017, President Donald Trump draped the Medal of Honor around the neck of James McCloughan, who was credited with saving the lives of 10 men in a brutal, days-long battle in Vietnam. Trump told the former Army medic that "we are in awe of your actions and your bravery."
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Freed After Livestreaming Wreck That Killed Her Sister, She Crashed Again
Obdulia Sanchez thought she was going to jail for a long time after killing her sister in a booze-fueled car crash streamed on Instagram.
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"Not Sure Who Fired": Cop Killed With His Own Gun, Police In Dilemma
It was just past midnight on Sunday when Brian Mulkeen and two of his colleagues patrolled a neighborhood in the northern Bronx, tasked with ferreting out gang activity.
-
Woman Fights For A Third Face As Body Rejects Transplant
Carmen Blandin Tarleton does not want to go backward. She is fighting for a third face.
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After Teen Told Restaurant He Had Dairy Allergy, Birthday Meal Killed Him
The teenager opted for a grilled chicken breast, but just to be safe, Owen alerted the Byron chain staff about his dairy allergy. It appeared he was satisfied with what he was told, and after ordering from a menu that made no mention of it, dug into a meal that had been marinated in buttermilk.
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Man Told Starbucks Worker His Name Was Aziz. She Wrote "ISIS" On His Cup
Niquel Johnson paid for three drinks in Philadelphia on Sunday, and in typical Starbucks fashion, an employee asked for his name. Johnson, 40, told them "Aziz," his Islamic name pronounced ah-zeez. He has used it for 25 years - and "countless" times at that particular store. The employee wrote his name as "ISIS" - the acronym for the Islamic terror...
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Secretive Space Drone Just Broke Its Own Orbit Record, and Almost No One Knows What It's Doing
The X-37B - the Air Force's ultra-secretive, astronaut-free spacecraft that looks like a miniaturized space shuttle - just broke its own flight record of 719 days in continuous orbit.
-
Secretive US Space Drone Broke Its Orbit Record Of 719 Days
The X-37B - the Air Force's ultra-secretive, astronaut-free spacecraft that looks like a miniaturized space shuttle - just broke its own flight record of 719 days in continuous orbit.
-
Mia Khalifa Made $12,000 For Dozen Shoots. Porn Industry Kept Moolah
In a Miami home rental in late 2014, a camera crewman peered through a viewfinder and brought Mia Khalifa into focus. The pornography film crew gathered at the Airbnb to shoot the scene featuring Khalifa in a hijab. It was a moment that would dominate adult-film sites for years and prompt beheading threats from Islamic State supporters.
