Since the beginning of recorded history, legends have been born surrounding the elegant, beautiful, and sometimes treacherous mermaid. Their siren songs, beautiful looks, and ocean dwelling lifestyle has made the mermaid an enigma in the minds of people everywhere. Cultures across the world have their own versions of this magical being, from the ningyo of […]
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Well then.
JUST IN: Trump wants to slash US funding for UN programs by over 50 percent: report https://t.co/zaGutZ1KQQ pic.twitter.com/WM4A9N5nJU
— The Hill (@thehill) March 13, 2017

Trump is looking to slash over half of US funding for UN programs; via the Hill:
The U.S. spends roughly $10 billion annually on the U.N., and the cuts could have the greatest impact on peacekeeping, the U.N. development program and UNICEF, which are funded by State’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs…

Women who are considering trying to become pregnant should consider the possibility that sperm collected in some areas might be infected with the Zika virus, officials said.

It can help to offer support instead of silence.

Also known as the Anasazi, the ancestral Pueblos were a prehistoric Native American nation. They left behind breathtaking buildings and mysterious graves. Extensive research has been done on this Pre-Columbian society that originated around 1200 BC, and some of it yielded remarkable genetic information, exposing the true power players, advanced knowledge, and trade routes. Scientists […]
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There is nothing quite like finding the first bone or brick of ancient remains. While such discoveries can take mere moments, understanding the whole story behind ruins, lost kingdoms, and old familiars can take decades. Archaeological sites can grind to a standstill, only moving forward again with the “story” when the next find falls into […]
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@SenWarren persist!!!!!!
— notmypresident (@Lisakozminski) March 13, 2017

As Twitchy told you, many in the media are running with the CBO’s estimate that in the first year of the AHCA, 14 million fewer people would be insured. That number would balloon to 24 million within the first decade of the program’s implementation. What much of the media have failed to acknowledge, however, is that the CBO also estimated that many of those “losing” their coverage would do so voluntarily, once they’re no longer legally required to have health insurance…

The hedge fund of the billionaire, who had defended the troubled drug maker for months in the face of a stock plunge, sold some 27 million shares.

The judgment by the Congressional Budget Office did not back up the president’s promise of providing health care for everyone but may help bring in rebellious conservatives.

The director of “Stranger Fruit,” a documentary about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in August of 2015, was interviewed on Fox News Monday night. The documentary “contends that Michael Brown did not rob a Ferguson, Mo. convenience store prior to his ultimately fatal 2014 encounter with Officer Darren Wilson.”
In his appearance with Martha MacCallum, Jason Pollock came off as just a little unglued…