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on November 12, 2014 in World News

CNN Hits New Ratings Low Monday Night

CNN Hits New Ratings Low Monday Night Monday’s 9pmET timeslot on CNN drew 181,000 total viewers, the lowest for the time period since at least Oct. 1, 1991, as far back as Nielsen electronic records go. Anderson Cooper anchored a second live hour of AC360 at 9pm. It was also the lowest rated hour of CNN’s entire day. Cooper finished fourth in the hour behind Megyn Kelly on Fox News, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and Dr. Drew Pinsky on HLN, in both total viewers and the demo. CNN’s 9pmET hour was the longtime home of Larry King and, until earlier… View Article

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on November 12, 2014 in World News

Pennsylvania Democratic Lawmakers Move to Block Expanded Gun Rights

Pennsylvania Democratic Lawmakers Move to Block Expanded Gun Rights With the midterms a week behind us and a future of expanded gun rights on the horizon, Pennsylvania Democratic lawmakers are pushing in the other direction. They are trying to block the implementation of pro-gun legislation that outgoing Governor Tom Corbett (R) signed into law this year. Democrats are joining with the gun control group CeaseFirePA in this endeavor. According to Lancaster Online, the cities of Lancaster, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia have joined with state Democrat officials in a lawsuit to stop Act 192, a pro-gun measure that allows citizens to challenge… View Article

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on November 12, 2014 in World News

Christian Group Receives Death Threats Following LGBT Group ‘Hate’ Report

Christian Group Receives Death Threats Following LGBT Group ‘Hate’ Report The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, the world’s largest LGBT pressure group, has issued a report along with scare-videos called “The Export of Hate” that targets Christian conservatives who work on LGBT issues overseas. The targeted Christians are calling foul. Pastor Scott Lively claims, “HRC has targeted me for murder.” He published death threats he says have come as a result of the report. One emailer told Lively, “..please let him know we are waiting for a moment when he is alone. then we will take him to the woods,… View Article

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on November 11, 2014 in World News

Lest we forget: Canadians mark Remembrance Day

Lest we forget: Canadians mark Remembrance Day Millions of Canadians are gathering across Canada today to honour the brave men and women, both past and present, who have served our country. According to a new poll conducted on behalf of the Vimy Foundation, more than a quarter of Canadians (27 per cent) say they plan to attend an official commemorative service this year. Remembrance Day resonates with many Canadians this year, following the recent deaths of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, the two Canadian Forces members killed just days apart in separate attacks last month. Canadians are… View Article

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on November 11, 2014 in World News

Morale sinks at CNN’s DC bureau

Morale sinks at CNN’s DC bureau CNN’s Washington bureau is suffering from low morale and high anxiety in the wake of weeks of layoffs and buyouts — with one employee likening the place to the Redskins’ locker room. In conversations with POLITICO, sources at the bureau spoke of tension in the office as several longtime staffers have been let go while others are being promoted and given raises. On Friday, during the most recent departures, “people were crying all over the bureau,” one D.C. employee said. “Morale at the CNN Washington Bureau is about as strong as it is inside… View Article

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on November 11, 2014 in World News

lenn Beck Reveals the Life-Changing ‘Pivot Point’

Glenn Beck Reveals the Life-Changing ‘Pivot Point’ He Has Kept Hidden From Almost Everyone for Five Years Glenn Beck on Monday revealed the true extent of his health issues, saying he can no longer keep what has happened a secret from his friends, his staff or audience, whom he considers to be his family. If you have sensed a change in Beck — maybe you even thought he was losing interest in his program — Beck said it is because he was told he may only have several functional years left, and his health conditions were causing such excruciating pain… View Article

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on November 11, 2014 in World News

Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains, study says

Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains, study says xperimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn’t want to believe it could happen to them: Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, someone who uses marijuana regularly has, on average, less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex, a region that is a key node in the brain’s reward, motivation, decision-making and addictive behaviors network. More ambiguously, in regular pot smokers, that region is better connected than it is in non-users: the flow of signal traffic is speedier to other parts of that motivation and… View Article

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