Justin Trudeau's pot legalization stance lights up Twitter

Kady O'Malley?has been covering the Hill for more than a decade (yes, really) for a variety of publications. An Ottawa girl (not quite born, but raised), she has a passion for politics that borders on the unhealthy, and has liveblogged her way through hundreds of committee meetings, press conferences, judicial inquiries, budget launches, cabinet shuffles, and even the odd constitutional crisis. Oh, and yes, her Boston Terrier really is named "BlackBerry." For up-to-the-minute bulletins, follow Kady on twitter!

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South Sudan president 'suspends cabinet'

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has suspended his entire cabinet and vice president, an MP says. Source: AAP

SOUTH Sudanese President Salva Kiir has suspended his entire cabinet and vice president, the former information minister says.

"President Kiir wants to make a major reshuffle, so from the vice president downwards, all national ministers and deputy ministers have been removed," said Barnaba Marial Benjamin, who until his suspension on Tuesday was the information minister and government spokesman.

Those removed include the vice president, Riek Machar, as well as Pagan Amum, the secretary-general of the ruling party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).

Many of the ministers were key figures in the rebel SPLM or its armed wing that fought a brutal 1983-2005 war against the government in Khartoum, which led to a 2011 referendum in which South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to split from the north.

Security forces had deployed on the streets of the capital - a common sight in the city - but all seemed calm.

No replacements have been announced, and it was not immediately clear whether all suspended would be returned, or if new blood would be brought in to replace them.

Residents in Juba said there was concern at the suspensions, which follows earlier orders by Kiir in April to clip the powers of Machar.

"People are staying at home, and if people are out in town they are rushing back just in case there is trouble," said Richard Jok, a student.

Oil-rich but war-ravaged South Sudan, which gained formal independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, is one of the poorest countries on earth.

It was left in ruins after five decades of conflict between southern rebels and successive governments in Sudan, with South Sudan now struggling with some of the worst development indicators of any nation.

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Texas GOP Passes Abortion Bill Dems Vow Fight

Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Saturday 13th July, 2013

The Corpus Christi Municipal Band performs in concert at 8:30 p.m. July 14 at Heritage Park, 1581 N. Chaparral St. The concert is free and open to the public. Now celebrating their 62nd concert season, the Corpus Christi Municipal Band will perform light classics, Broadway standards and music from the movies. Master of Ceremonies David Irving, Del Mar College Jazz Band director, and Conductor ...

Texas Republicans pass abortion bill Democrats vow to challenge

The Globe and Mail - Saturday 13th July, 2013

State Senators, from left, Sylvia R. Garcia, D-Houston, Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, Royce West, D-Dallas, Kirk Watson, D-Austin, and John Whitmire, D-Houston, greet abortion rights advocates to show they voted against HB2, which the Senate approved late Friday night, July 12, 2013. Republicans in the Texas Legislature passed an omnibus abortion bill that is one of the most restrictive in the ...

Judge to mull if airlines owe WTC owners over 911

San Diego Union-Tribune - Saturday 13th July, 2013

FILE- In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, American Airlines Flight 175 closes in on World Trade Center Tower 2 in New York, just before impact. On Monday, July 15, 2013, a lawsuit commences in New York City that will decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center can try to make several airlines and other aviation defendants pay billions of dollars in damages for their liability in the ...

LGBT group finds acceptance at evangelical college

The Miami Herald - Saturday 13th July, 2013

When people get more education, they become more productive and help strengthen the entire U.S. economy. So it is discouraging to see that students from wealthy families are increasingly more likely to graduate from college than are those from poor families. This perpetuates inequality from one generation to the next and limits the economic benefits that could come if a wider swath of the ...

Texas Legislature Passes Bill Banning Abortion After 20 Weeks

CNS News - Saturday 13th July, 2013

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Republicans in the Texas Legislature have passed an omnibus abortion bill that is one of the most restrictive in the ...

Texas Senate Republicans Approve Strict New Limits on Abortions

Slatest - Saturday 13th July, 2013

MySlate is a new tool that lets you track your favorite parts of Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and ...

2nd guilty plea in mail fraud at Lubbock hospital

Associated Press - Saturday 13th July, 2013

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- A San Antonio man has pleaded guilty to a mail fraud charge in connection with a scheme that cost University Medical Center in Lubbock almost ...

Texas thinks of women as second-class citizens ? if it thinks were citizens at all

The Guardian - Saturday 13th July, 2013

Some Democrats see the abortion row played out in Austin's statehouse as a turning point for Texas liberals. But with the bill now passed by the senate, others warn that life will get even ...

Restrictive Texas abortion bill expected to be challenged in court

Middle East Times - Saturday 13th July, 2013

A hotly contested bill passed by the Texas Senate that contains some of the nation's most restrictive abortion rules will be challenged in court, opponents say. The bill was approved 19-11 along party lines Friday after a debate that drew thousands of supporters and opponents to the capitol, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram reported Saturday. ...

State of Texas Now a Danger Zone For Women

Common Dreams - Saturday 13th July, 2013

The Texas Senate pushed through a severe anti-abortion bill Friday evening, bringing one of the country's most severe attacks on reproductive rights within inches of being signed into law.The bill advanced despite thousands of pro-choice advocates who filled the capitol Friday to oppose the bill. "Thousands upon thousands of people screamed their faces off for hours and hours filling ...

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General Sources - Saturday 13th July, 2013

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General Sources - Saturday 13th July, 2013

Baron Davis says he was "actually abducted by aliens." The basket-case baller told the hosts of "The Champs Podcast" that he crossed into his own personal twilight zone while driving "like two weeks ago. I was, um, on my way from Vegas here to L.A.," he said on the episode that aired Thursday. Davis described being transferred into a "steel thing" inside ...

Texas Senate passes controversial abortion bill

McClatchy - Saturday 13th July, 2013

AUSTIN, Texas - After more than eight hours of debate, the plan to enact some of the nation's most restrictive abortion regulations was approved 19-11 by the Texas Senate late Friday. This issue - which will restrict abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and put in place regulations so strict that only a handful of abortion clinics, including one in Fort Worth, likely will remain - ...

Tampon Gate Texas Senate issues ban on feminine hygiene products

Global Post - Saturday 13th July, 2013

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Abortion Rights Activists Plan Challnge To Texas Measure

NPR - Saturday 13th July, 2013

Opponents -- dressed in blue -- and supporters -- wearing orange -- of abortion rights rally in the State Capitol rotunda Friday before the vote on a set of sweeping abortion ...

House GOP passes farm subsidies --- without food stamps

Washington Examiner - Saturday 13th July, 2013

farm bill that was arguably less conservative than the one they voted down in June. What happened? How did the GOP leadership whip rank-and-file members into line, including almost all conservative members? And why did leadership do it? Here's the story, as told by House GOP leadership aides, individual members, and the conservative activists who tried and failed to reform the farm bill: ...

Corpus Christi City Council moves forward with plan to scrap two replica Columbus ships to save third

Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Saturday 13th July, 2013

Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Valerie Britton (left) and Gloria Britton check the replica Columbus ship of the Ni?a, which was docked in the Lawrence Street T-Head on Thursday. The City Council on Tuesday took the first vote needed to let the Columbus Sailing Association remove parts from the Pinta and Santa Maria for repairs to the Ni?a. Saving two of the three ships would ...

Texas abortion law passes despite protests

Channel News Asia - Saturday 13th July, 2013

The Texas senate late Friday approved a bill setting some of the strictest limits on abortion in the United States, just weeks after a filibuster by opposition Democrats dramatically thwarted the ...

Texas passes one of toughest anti-abortion laws in US

Guardian - Saturday 13th July, 2013

abortion bills, but opponents are set to challenge the legisation in federal court.More than a thousand pro-choice and anti-abortion demonstrators packed the state capitol in Austin late on Friday night as senators voted on legislation that has made Texas the focus of nationwide abortion-rights activism.The senate passed House Bill 2 by 19 votes to 11 just before midnight local time. Texas ...

UPDATE 2-Texas passes abortion restriction bill governor certain to sign

Reuters - Saturday 13th July, 2013

Sat Jul 13, 2013 3:56am EDT * Bill bans most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy * Republican Governor Rick Perry certain to sign * Political battle stirred national debate, filibuster (Adds details on the bill, protests) By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas, July 13 (Reuters) - Texas' Republican-controlled Senate has voted to ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, ending a ...

KFC founders suit auctioned for over 20000 dollars in Texas

SINA - Saturday 13th July, 2013

The trademark white suit worn by KFC founder Harland Sanders was sold for 21,510 U.S. dollars at an auction in the U.S. State of Texas Saturday, local media reported. The suit was bought by the president and chief executive of KFC Japan Masao Watanabe, who was one of hundreds of in-person, telephone and online bidders vying for the item, local TV ABC13 reported. Watanabe said he had planned to ...

Texas at the forefront of national push on fetal pain legislation

Deseret News - Saturday 13th July, 2013

Hundreds wait in line to enter the Senate gallery at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, Friday, July 12, 2013. The Texas Senate leader, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, has scheduled a vote for Friday on the same restrictions on when, where and how women may obtain abortions in Texas that failed to become law after a Democratic filibuster and raucous protesters were able to run out the clock on ...

Source: http://www.austinnews.net/index.php/sid/215807903/scat/42acbe017a594c30

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Microsoft Confirms DirectX 11.2 is a Windows 8.1, Xbox One Exclusive

Microsoft Confirms DirectX 11.2 is a Windows 8.1, Xbox One Exclusive

Good news and bad news: The good news is that Microsoft has announced it will be releasing DirectX 11.2 in time for the release of the Xbox One and Windows 8.1. Now for the bad news: The release will only be for Xbox One and Windows 8.1. So much for retro support, huh?

It's a clever trick, and one that could help boost the quality of future PC games - but it's one that will require those who have yet to take the plunge to upgrade their operating systems. Leblond confirmed that Direct3D 11.2 will be the first version of the API to support tiled resources, and that it will be exclusive to Windows 8.1 on the PC as well as featuring in Microsoft's next-generation Xbox One console.

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Source: http://www.hardocp.com/news/2013/06/30/microsoft_confirms_directx_112_windows_81_xbox_one_exclusive/

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Light-Bot Teaches Computer Science With A Cute Little Robot And Some Symbol-Based Programming

Light Bot has been around for a few years - it began as a Flash game in 2008 - but this newer version has been rebuilt for iOS and Android and offers an easy way for kids to learn concepts like loops, if-then statements, and the like without typing or coding.

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Would anyone care if 'Mad Men's' Don died?

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Drusilla Moorhouse TODAY contributor

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Falling man from opening of AMC's "Mad Men."

We have a perfect ending for "Mad Men's" season finale: Don Draper jumping out the window.

Obviously there's no chance of that happening. He's the star of the show, and besides, two season-ending suicides in a row (RIP, Lane Pryce) would be awfully repetitive. (Like juggling two juice accounts. RIP, Ocean Spray.)

But nothing is more redundant than Don Draper himself. Other than his brief interlude as a faithful newlywed, you just can't teach this dog new tricks.

Even a year ago, the thought of losing Don would have been inconceivable -- even though the businessman's freefall in the opening title sequence seems to imply that is his ultimate fate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a metaphor, we get it. But the wretched ad exec has become so dull, predictable and dislikable that we really wouldn't miss him if he took a shortcut down to Madison Ave.

Everyone with sense agrees that Jon Hamm is a nearly perfect human creature, but we'd much rather see him in another role -- like his hilarious bubble boy Drew on "30 Rock." And you know what? "Mad Men's" ensemble cast would be just fine without him -- especially Roger Sterling and Sally Draper, who could easily front their own spin-off series.

Here are all the reasons we're over Don Draper:

Serial cheating: He's not unique among his colleagues at Sterling Cooper & Partners, but at least infidelity isn't a full-time hobby for Roger, Pete, Ted (maybe) and the gang. And yes, we know it's a manifestation of Dick Whitman's childhood in a whorehouse, but the backstory doesn't make his adultery any less boring.

Alcoholism: Another snoozer story line. But would Don be more interesting if he were sober? Doubtful. Another Roger acid trip, on the other hand ...

The sads: He wept on Peggy's shoulder and curled up in a fetal position on his disgusted daughter's bed, but we have lost all sympathy for depressed Don. In fact, our reaction is the same as his: Wah, wah, wah.

Tyranny: Don really is a monster, as Peggy called him after he humiliated her and Ted in the season's penultimate episode. He's spiteful, insensitive and downright cruel. So is Pete Campbell -- but at least we love to hate the snarky stair-tumbler. Don we just hate.

Impostor: Once upon a time, Don's identify theft was a thrilling narrative. Now nearly everyone knows the truth, and no one seems to care. Sterling Cooper's creative director works about five minutes a day, is trashed or asleep the rest of the time, insults his clients and colleagues and betrays his family. So why haven't they publicly outed him? Not that we'd really care. Bob Benson's fraud is so much more fascinating now.

Grim Reaper: Don isn't directly to blame for all the show's deaths, but they sure do seem to follow him like Pig Pen's cloud of dirt. And speculation is rampant that Megan might be the next to go, thanks to a number of clues connecting her to Charles Manson victim Sharon Tate. (Megan's obsession with "Rosemary's Baby" -- directed by Tate's husband, Roman Polanski -- only added fuel to the fire.) Her murder would paradoxically breathe new life into "Mad Men" -- but not if it means we'll be subjected to a final season devoted to her widower's grief.

Are you ready for Don to take a flying leap (literally or figuratively)? What do you hope to see in the season finale? Click on "Talk about it" below and share your thoughts!

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/if-don-draper-died-mad-men-finale-would-anyone-care-6C10382406

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