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Undercover Video Gives the Dirt on Pigs in Factory Farms

You might not want to have a ham sandwich for lunch today.

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Religious Rebuttal: Southern Baptists Resolve That Hell Is Real

At their convention in Phoenix this past week, Southern Baptists issued a resolution asserting their “belief in the biblical teaching on eternal, conscious punishment of the unregenerate in Hell.” … Or, as the resolution’s title succinctly puts it, “On The Reality Of Hell.”

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What, No Chocolate? The World’s Favorite Foods Are Pasta, Meat and Rice

NewsFeed recently learned we should be living in Australia.

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Mormons, Superheroes and Stephen Colbert: Why This Year’s Tony Awards Will Be Different

With the curtain about to go up on the 65th Annual Antoinette Perry Awards, NewsFeed takes a break from singing in the shower to reflect on Broadway’s big night (with an admitted musical bias).

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UN: One Third of Food Produced for Human Consumption Is Uneaten

A new report suggests that some 1.3 billion metric tons of food in the world is lost (on the production side of the food supply chain) or wasted (on the consumption side) each year. That’s about one-third of total edibles produced for humans.

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Arthur Laurents, Famed Broadway Playwright, Dies at 93

Last night Broadway dimmed its lights in honor of Arthur Laurents, the famed writer, director, and nonagenarian who died in Manhattan Thursday.

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Tasmanian Tiger or Marsupial Wolf? New Insights on the Extinct Thylacine

Both its nicknames reflect the fact that the thylacine was an awesome creature — one that makes the human race kick itself for helping to drive such animals to extinction — but new research suggests that the “Tasmanian tiger”/“marsupial wolf” was indeed more tiger-like than wolfish.

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‘Heil Jane Corwin’: Congressional Candidate the Focus of Ruthless Spoof Site

As one of NewsFeed’s colleagues pointed out, this is what happens when candidates only buy the .com, not the .org.

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Restricted Reading: South Carolina Jail Bans All Books Except for the Bible

If you’re a criminal who likes to read — and/or religious, but not Christian — then the last place you want to be jailed in is Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

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Praying for Will and Kate: Anglican and Catholic Churches Release Royal-Wedding Prayers

Looking for just the right officially-sanctioned words to utter as the royal wedding approaches? The Church of England can help.