By Emily Atkin on January 6, 2014 at 1:27 pm ” Everything You Wanted To Know About The ‘Polar Vortex’ ” A person struggles to cross a street in blowing and falling snow Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, in St. Louis. On Sunday night, a reporter for The Weather Channel stood in a Minnesota snowstorm , talking about local efforts to move homeless children into heated shelters. “How cold is it supposed to get?” the anchor, back in the studio, asked. The reporter replied: “ Colder than Mars .” Indeed, recent temperatures across the U.S. have been Mars-like. Forecasts in […]

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By Josh Israel Liz Cheney, a former George W. Bush administration state department official and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, announced Monday that she will end her primary challenge to Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), a third-term Senator who ranked as the eighth most conservative member of the Senate in 2012. In a statement , Cheney said that “serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue […]

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By Ryan Koronowski on January 6, 2014 Sales of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles soared by 84 percent from 2012 to 2013 for a total of more than 96,000 , according to data from Ward’s Automotive. 16 different plug-in models are currently available , and with more on the way, those numbers could jump again in 2014. In 2013, Americans bought nearly […]

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Photo by Coco Capitan, graphic work by Sam Taylor This is an article about having better sex in 2014. To take you to new erotic heights, I was going to give you some practical sex advice: don’t fuck two participants in a threesome with the same condom on, a guy will almost always love it if you sit on his face, ladies don’t like cum in their hair, etc. But, to be honest, practical tips turn sex into a bizarre shopping list: If you didn’t like Tip #2: “Draw a sexy bull’s-eye around your nipple with rhinestones and eyelash glue” […]

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WASHINGTON — To many Americans, the war on poverty declared 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson has largely failed. The poverty rate has fallen only to 15 percent from 19 percent in two generations, and 46 million Americans live in households where the government considers their income scarcely adequate. But looked at a different way, the federal government has succeeded in preventing the poverty rate from climbing far higher. There is broad consensus that the social welfare programs created since the New Deal have hugely improved living conditions for low-income Americans. At the same time, in recent […]

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By Bryce Covert on January 5, 2014 Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R) Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R) is pushing to undo the state’s law that employers have to provide their employees with at least one day off a week, the Huffington Post reports. The Huffington Post obtained an email Grothman sent to other state lawmakers on Friday in which he proposes legislation that “would allow an employee to voluntarily choose to work without one day of rest in seven.” State Rep. Mark Born (R) […]

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