Facebook Unveils Cryptocurrency Despite Privacy Concerns

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Climate Action Could Prevent Hundreds of Heat-Related Deaths in These 15 US Cities

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Grand Jury Indicts Four Men on Charges of Trafficking ‘Ghost Guns’ in NJ

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Bitcoin Causing Carbon Dioxide Emissions Comparable to Las Vegas or Hamburg

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Moms Equal Pay Day: ‘Shocking’ Statistics Explain Why Working Moms Are So Stressed

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Japan Knife Attack Makes Case for Gun Restrictions

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‘We All Owe Al Gore an Apology’: More People See Climate Change in Record Flooding

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Going Mobile Could Get More Americans to Vote

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Maine’s Governor Signs Nation’s Strictest Internet Privacy Protection Bill

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Our Ecological Catastrophe Demands New Ways of Thinking

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Mark Cuban’s Simple Solution for Income Inequality in the US

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Measuring Carbon Emissions From Space Will Help Bring Pollution Back Down to Earth

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Gun Violence Is a National Security Threat: Janet Napolitano

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Salesforce Says It Won’t Work With Retailers That Sell Semi-Automatic Weapons

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Why Hundreds of Puffins Washed Up Dead on an Alaskan Beach

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Patent Shows Just How Much Creepier Alexa Can Get

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South Africa’s Carbon Tax Set to Go Into Effect Next Week

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Climate Change Is Making Us Sicker and Shortening Our Lives, Doctors Say

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3D-Printed Guns May Soon Be Outlawed In New York Under Bill Now Before Gov. Cuomo

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Microsoft Calls for GDPR-Like Framework for US Data

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