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Ben Stiller reveals prostate cancer diagnosis in new essay

Though best known for his ability to make audiences laugh, actor, writer and director Ben Stiller is hoping his latest effort will make people stop and think. Stiller published an essay Tuesday morning revealing that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 2014. He was declared cancer-free in September of the same year. […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Hillary Clinton says ‘I don’t recall’ when asked if she joked about killing WikiLeaks’ Assange

Hillary Clinton says she cannot remember whether she ever joked about killing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during her tenure as secretary of state. The former secretary of state was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, campaigning when a journalist asked her about a report that she once mentioned sending a drone to kill Mr. Assange, who has used

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USA

Prince Charles secretly visited grandmother’s grave while in Jerusalem

Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince Charles of Wales, quietly visited his grandmother’s grave at a Jerusalem convent on Friday following his attendance at the funeral of former president Shimon Peres. Charles stopped at the Mount of Olives’ Church of Mary Magdalene before heading back to the UK, where his paternal grandmother Princess Alice of

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International, Middle East

Son of Jewish refugees wins physics Nobel Prize

British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year”s Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that “revealed the secrets of exotic matter,” the prize committee said. The three “opened the door” to an unknown world where matter takes unusual states or phases, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education

Jewish billionaire detained to testify against Netanyahu

Jewish billionaire Ronald Lauder, who has been considered for many years to be a personal friend of Prime Minister Netanyahu, was taken for police questioning after he participated in Peres’ funeral, Channel 2 reported. The Israeli police requested that Lauder testify against the Netanyahu family. According to the report, Lauder, who is the president of

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Middle East, USA

Stephen Breyer mentions Kim Kardashian robbery in oral arguments

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer talked about Kim Kardashian West’s Paris jewelry robbery during oral arguments on a bank fraud case in court Tuesday. Justice Breyer made the comments early into the oral arguments of Lawrence Eugene Shaw v. United States, in which a California man convicted of stealing more than $300,000 from a Taiwanese

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International, USA

‘No one was spared’ – a former Iranian political prisoner on the 1988 massacre he narrowly escaped

When I heard Canadian-Iranian professor Homa Hoodfar was released from the notorious Evin prison and left Iran safely after months of incarceration, I was relieved, as I have a sense of what she went through. In 1981, my political dissent and human rights activities landed me in Iranian prison for 11 years – six of

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Middle East

Trio wins Nobel physics prize for work on «strange» states of matter

Stockholm (dpa) – David J Thouless, F Duncan M Haldane and J Michael Kosterlitz have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in topology and revealing the “secrets of exotic matter,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Tuesday. “This year’s laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter can

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education

Clinton and her allies continue to outpace Trump in ad spending, report finds

Hillary Clinton continues to outpace Donald Trump in spending on television ads — a trend that has moved into the fall as voters begin to cast ballots. Clinton and her allies, such as the super PAC Priorities USA Action, are outspending Trump and his supporters by a 4-to-1 margin with five weeks until Election Day,

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USA