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Today in History

1757		Robert Francois Damiens makes an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate King Louis XV of France.
1847		Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government. His U.S. revolver patent will give him a monopoly on the manufacturing of revolvers until 1857, and during the Civil War his factory in Hartford, Connecticut, will supply firearms to both the North and the South.
1863		Union General Henry Halleck, by direction of Lincoln, orders General Ulysses Grant to revoke his infamous General Order No. 11 that expelled Jews from his operational area.
1896		Utah becomes the 45th state of the Union.
1902		France offers to sell their Nicaraguan Canal rights to the United States.
1904		The U.S. Supreme Court decides in the Gonzales v. Williams case that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and can enter the United States freely, yet stops short of awarding citizenship.
1920		The Negro National League, the first black baseball league, is organized by Rube Foster.
1923		The Paris Conference on war reparations hits a deadlock as the French insist on the hard line and the British insist on Reconstruction.
1935		President Franklin D. Roosevelt claims in his State of the Union message that the federal government will provide jobs for 3.5 million Americans on welfare.
1936		Billboard magazine publishes its first music Hit Parade.
1941		On the Greek-Albanian front, the Greeks launch an attack towards Valona from Berat to Klisura against the Italians.
1942		Japanese forces begin the evacuation of Guadalcanal.
1951		UN forces abandon Seoul, Korea, to the Chinese Communist Army.
1952		The French Army in Indochina launches Operation Nenuphar in hopes of ejecting a Viet Minh division from the Ba Tai forest.
1969		Spain returns the Ifni province to Morocco.
1970		A 7.7 earthquake kills 15,000+ people in Tonghai County, China.
1972		Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.
1974		Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1975		The Khmer Rouge launches its newest assault in its five-year war in Phnom Penh. The war in Cambodia would go on until the spring of 1975.
1976		The Ulster Volunteer Force kills six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day 10 Protestant civilians are murdered in retaliation.
1979		Ohio officials approve an out-of-court settlement awarding $675,000 to the victims and families in the 1970 shootings at Kent State University, in which four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops.
1990		Over 300 people die and more than 700 are injured in Pakistan’s deadliest train accident, when an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train.
1999		Jesse “The Body” Ventura, a former professional wrestler, is sworn in as the populist governor of Minnesota.
1999		The euro, the new currency of 11 nations, goes into effect on the continent of Europe.
2004		NASA’s Mars rover Spirit successfully lands on Mars.
2004		Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the Rose Revolution of November 2003.
2007		Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) becomes the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2010		Burj Khalifa (Khalifa tower) officially opens in Dubai, UAE. At 2,722 ft (829.8 m) it is the world’s tallest man-made structure.

Concentration Camps for African Migrants Are Popping Up Across Libya

Concentration Camps for African Migrants Blocked from Entering Europe Are Popping Up Across Libya

Chocolate may go extinct in the next 40 years

Chocolate could reportedly vanish as early as 2050. This revelation has led scientists from the University of California at Berkeley to work with Virginia-based manufacturer Mars, Incorporated to save the cacao plant from disappearing.

Chocolate may go extinct in the next 40 years

Large part of Earth could become desert by 2050

More than 25 percent of Earth will experience serious drought and desertification by the year 2050 if the attempts made by the Paris climate agreement to curb global warming are not met, according to a  new study by the journal Nature Climate Change.

Large part of Earth could become desert by 2050

Feeling Burned Out?

Feeling Burned Out? When We Gather, We Get Energized

Too much screening has misled us about real cancer risk factors

The best-known downside of cancer screening, such as PSA tests for prostate cancer and mammograms for breast cancer, is that they often flag cancers that pose no risk, leading to over-diagnosis and unnecessary, even harmful, treatment. But widespread screening for "scrutiny-dependent" cancers - those for which the harder you look the more you find, and the more of what you find is harmless - causes another problem, two leading cancer experts argue in a paper published on Monday: increasing the apparent incidence of some cancers. That in turn is misleading doctors and the public about what increases people's risk of developing cancers - or at least the types of cancer that matter.

Too much screening has misled us about real cancer risk factors: researchers

Big Myths Sold by the Defenders of Capitalism

5 Big Myths Sold by the Defenders of Capitalism

Why Silicon Valley Loves to Stereotype the Sherpa

Why Silicon Valley Loves to Stereotype the Sherpa

Silicon Valley’s Capitalist Greed Continues to Cheat Creators and Rob American Culture

How Silicon Valley’s Capitalist Greed Continues to Cheat Creators and Rob American Culture

The U.S. Economy Is Far More Fragile Than It Looks

Paul Krugman: The U.S. Economy Is Far More Fragile Than It Looks

From Bloody Drug War to Legal Pot

From Bloody Drug War to Legal Pot: 10 Global Drug Policy Highlights (and Lowlights) of 2017

This Is the Next Battle Frontier in the War Against Body Shaming

This Is the Next Battle Frontier in the War Against Body Shaming

Here's How to Stop Hate Groups from Spreading

Former White Supremacist Leader -- Here's How to Stop Hate Groups from Spreading

Pennsylvania mom sues teachers for mocking disabled daughter in voicemail

Pennsylvania mom sues teachers for mocking disabled daughter in voicemail

The trio of teachers in Washington County’s McGuffey School District allegedly mocked Beth Suhon’s daughter struggles with Turner’s Syndrome, a chromosomal condition that targets women and causes developmental as well as learning disabilities.

Vermont judge drops white student’s ‘racist and threatening’ charge and seals report on what he said

A Vermont judge on Tuesday tossed out a case against 20-year-old University of Vermont student Wesley Richter after he was accused of using “explicitly racist and threatening language” to target African-American students.

Man charged with beating stepson to death over cookie

A man in Florida has been charged with murdering his stepson—over a cookie.
Jack Junior Montgomery, 31, of Tampa, Florida was charged Sunday with felony first-degree murder for the killing of his 7-year-old stepson, Brice Russell. The family was living at the Masters Inn in Seffner, Florida, WFLA reported.

Man charged with beating stepson to death over cookie

Georgia police arrest 70 partygoers after no one owns up to bringing less than an ounce of weed

Georgia police arrest 70 partygoers after no one owns up to bringing less than an ounce of weed

Early on the morning of December 31, 2017, police in the Atlanta suburb of Cartersville arrested 70 people at a house party because no one would claim ownership of a stash of marijuana.

Wichita cop responding to 911 suicide call shoots 9-year-old girl in the forehead

Wichita cop responding to 911 suicide call shoots 9-year-old girl in the forehead

Less than one week after a Wichita Police Department officer fatally shot an innocent citizen in a “swatting” prank, a second officer has been placed on administrative leave after shooting another innocent citizen.

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Today in History

1521		Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
1777		General George Washington defeats the British led by British General Lord Charles Cornwallis, at Princeton, New Jersey.
1861		Delaware rejects a proposal that it join the South in seceding from the Union.
1903		The Bulgarian government renounces the Treaty of Commerce tying it to the Austro-Hungarian empire.
1910		The Social Democratic Congress in Germany demands universal suffrage.
1912		Plans are announced for a new $150,000 Brooklyn stadium for the Trolley Dodgers baseball team.
1916		Three armored Japanese cruisers are ordered to guard the Suez Canal.
1920		The last of the U.S. troops depart France.
1921		Italy halts the issuing of passports to those emigrating to the United States.
1924		King Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus is uncovered near Luxor, Egypt.
1930		The second conference on Germany’s war reparations begins at The Hague, in the Netherlands.
1931		Hundreds of farmers storm a small town in depression-plagued Arkansas demanding food.
1933		The Japanese take Shuangyashan, China, killing 500 Chinese.
1946		President Harry S. Truman calls on Americans to spur Congress to act on the on-going labor crisis.
1958		The British create the West Indies Federation with Lord Hailes as governor general.
1959		Alaska is admitted into the Union as the 49th and largest state.
1959		Fidel Castro takes command of the Cuban army.
1961		The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1966		Cambodia warns the United Nations of retaliation unless the United States and South Vietnam end intrusions.
1977		Apple Computers incorporates.
1978		North Vietnamese troops reportedly occupy 400 square miles in Cambodia. North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops were using Laos and Cambodia as staging areas for attacks against allied forces.
1985		President Ronald Reagan condemns a rash of arson attacks on abortion clinics.
1990		Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to US forces.
1993		George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1994		More than 7 million people receive South African citizenship that had previously been denied under Apartheid policies.
1996		The first mobile flip phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale.
1999		The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
2000		The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published after a 50-year run, following the death of the strip’s creator, Charles Schultz.

Who was Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings?

Who was Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings?

Record-shattering cold reaches into Florida

Record-shattering arctic cold reached as far south as Florida on Monday with freeze warnings in place from Texas to the Atlantic Coast and the northeastern United States facing another cold wave at the end of the week, forecasters said.

Record-shattering cold reaches into Florida

Ecological Approach to Architecture Can Help Reinvent Urban Food Systems

How an Ecological Approach to Architecture Can Help Reinvent Urban Food Systems

Can Tiny Houses Halt the Expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline?

Can Tiny Houses Halt the Expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline?

In Iceland, an example of what happens if you actually elect women

Iceland is not waiting for the gender pay gap to fix itself.

Starting January 1, 2018, it is now illegal for employers to pay women less than men. In Iceland, both public and private employers with 25 employees or more will need obtain government certification of equal pay policies. Organizations that fail to obtain the certification will face fines.

In Iceland, an example of what happens if you actually elect women

Orwell used wartime rationing to argue for global justice

How Orwell used wartime rationing to argue for global justice

‘You could use a bit-o-weed’

‘You could use a bit-o-weed’: The internet mocks Laura Ingraham for freaking out over ‘potheads’ on CNN

Fox 'News' hack Laura Ingraham freaked out over a CNN reporter lighting a bong New Year’s Eve for a pot smoker — and other social media users dunked on her.

Fox 'News' mourns the so-called death of ‘investigative journalism’ after such reports brought down network bigwigs

Fox 'News' mourns the so-called death of ‘investigative journalism’ after such reports brought down network bigwigs

Former neo-Nazi offers parents advice for how to stop their kids from becoming white supremacists

Former neo-Nazi offers parents advice for how to stop their kids from becoming white supremacists

Tony McAleer, a former neo-Nazi who for years worked as an organizer for the White Aryan Resistance, has written a column in Israeli paper Haaretz in which he offers advice to parents who fear that their own children might become white supremacists.

Teachers mock disabled student in voicemail after forgetting to hang up phone

Teachers mock disabled student in voicemail after forgetting to hang up phone

‘They crushed my spirit’

‘They crushed my spirit’: Texas teens leave racist ‘KKK’ message for server at IHOP

Mosque pays off debts of man who spray painted hateful messages on their building in 2016

Arkansas Matters reports that Masjid Al Salam in the city of Fort Smith ponied up $1,700 to pay off court fines imposed on Abraham Davis, the man who vandalized their building just over a year ago with messages such as “Fuck you, fuck Islam” and “Go home.”

Mosque pays off debts of man who spray painted hateful messages on their building in 2016

Joel Osteen protege says heaven is paved with gold — but he has a problem with ‘people who pimp the cult’

Joel Osteen protege says heaven is paved with gold — but he has a problem with ‘people who pimp the cult’

A pastor who has served under prosperity gospel preacher Joel Osteen insists there is nothing wrong with becoming wealthy thanks to the 'christian' cult.

A woman brutally raped with a ‘broken tree branch’ has died two years later

A woman brutally raped with a ‘broken tree branch’ has died two years later — and she never left the hospital

A Russian woman who was viciously raped two years ago by a man who victimized three other women in the same week has died. Anna Barmina passed away at the age of 33, this after a sexual assault so brutal that she suffered a heart attack, went into a coma and never left the hospital.

NYPD promised to retrain police officers after Eric Garner's death in 2014

NYPD promised to retrain police officers after Eric Garner's death in 2014 — but not a single officer has taken the training

Four shot dead in New Jersey home

Police arrested a 16-year-old boy suspected of killing four people including his parents and sister with an assault rifle at their New Jersey home on New Year’s Eve, prosecutors said on Monday.

Four shot dead in New Jersey home; 16-year-old arrested

Colorado shooting suspect posted alt-right ‘Pepe’ memes on social media

Colorado shooting suspect was an Iraq War vet who posted alt-right ‘Pepe’ memes on social media

Matthew Riehl, the man accused of killing a suburban Denver sheriff’s deputy and wounding four others, is a veteran of the Iraq War who is also fond of posting alt-right memes on his Facebook account.

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1492		Catholic forces under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella take the town of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Spain.
1758		The French begin bombardment of Madras, India.
1839		Photography pioneer Louis Daguerre takes the first photograph of the moon.
1861		The USS Brooklyn is readied at Norfolk to aid Fort Sumter.
1863		In the second day of hard fighting at Stone’s River, near Murfreesboro, TN, Union troops defeat the Confederates.
1903		President Theodore Roosevelt closes a post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to hire a Black postmistress.
1904		U.S. Marines are sent to Santo Domingo to aid the government against rebel forces.
1905		After a six-month siege, the Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese.
1918		Russian Bolsheviks threaten to re-enter World War I unless Germany returns occupied territory.
1932		Japanese forces in Manchuria set up a puppet government known as Manchukuo.
1936		In Berlin, Nazi officials claim that their treatment of Jews is not the business of the League of Nations.
1942		In the Philippines, the city of Manila and the U.S. Naval base at Cavite fall to Japanese forces.
1943		The Allies capture Buna in New Guinea.
1963		In Vietnam, the Viet Cong down five U.S. helicopters in the Mekong Delta. 30 Americans are reported dead.
1966		American G.I.s move into the Mekong Delta for the first time.
1973		The United States admits the accidental bombing of a Hanoi hospital.
1980		President Jimmy Carter asks the U.S. Senate to delay the arms treaty ratification in response to Soviet action in Afghanistan.
1981		British police arrest the “Yorkshire Ripper” serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe.
1999		A severe winter storm hits the Midwestern US; in Chicago temperatures plunge to -13 ºF and 19 inches of snow fell; 68 deaths are blamed on the storm.
2006		A coal mine explosion in Sago, West Virginia, kills 12 miners and critically injures another. This accident and another within weeks lead to the first changes in federal mining laws in decades.

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The Youngest Female Billionaire Isn't Who You'd Expect

The Youngest Female Billionaire Isn't Who You'd Expect

Easy Ways to Avoid Overindulging At Dinner

5 Easy Ways to Avoid Overindulging At Dinner

The toughest meal of the day, conquered

Simple Trick Might Help You Lose 10 Pounds Without Dieting At All

This Simple Trick Might Help You Lose 10 Pounds Without Dieting At All

No muss, no fuss.

How Much Salad You Should Eat to Keep Your Brain 11 Years Younger

Here's How Much Salad You Should Eat to Keep Your Brain 11 Years Younger

A new study found that eating greens can protect against memory loss