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CNN
More than half the nation's governors say they oppose letting Syrian refugees into their states, although the final say on this contentious immigration issue will fall to the federal government.
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HealthDay News
Medications taken to prevent HIV infection in high-risk people appear to work well in "real-life" use, a new study suggests.
During a year of taking pre-exposure prophylaxis, only two people out of more than 400 high-risk people became infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. And it seems that those who became infected didn't take the medication properly, the study said.
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The Washington Post
More than a million miles on the road and no ticket yet — that was the humblebrag via Google after one of its driverless cars was recently pulled over in Mountain View, California.
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By Archita Datta Majumdar
 The gun debate in the U.S. may never end, but opinion polls show most Americans want stricter gun laws. In a recent move, an alliance of organizations representing police chiefs and executives said they would strongly support universal background checks for firearms purchases. Currently, only licensed dealers have to insist on background checks, but firearms sold through private parties or gun shows do not require any checks and constitute 40 percent of total gun sales.
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Governing
Hackers in the past year have broken into computer systems at the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, the Internal Revenue Service and the Office of Personnel Management. The carnage doesn't stop at the federal level, either. Both South Carolina and Utah were victims in 2012 of major data breaches that compromised personal data stored on government computers. But if you think that these increasingly frequent and expensive breaches, hacks and data leaks have led to the public sector being more prepared, you would be wrong. Public-sector technology is more vulnerable than ever.
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Government Technology
Bicycle advocates say cyclists should not use handheld electronic devices at all when riding. But there's no evidence that such use has resulted in deaths or serious injuries, raising questions about whether creating laws or slapping fines on cyclists makes sense.
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IPWatchdog.com
On the evening of Friday, Nov. 13, the city of Paris and its suburb Saint-Denis were targeted in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of at least 129 people and injured another 352 people as of this writing. Targets of the attack include nightclubs, restaurants and the sports stadium Stade du France. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as either ISIL or ISIS, have claimed responsibility for planning and executing the attacks. Seven attackers were confirmed dead It was the worst attack on French soil since World War II and the deadliest terrorist attack in Europe since the March 2004 bombings of commuter trains in the Spanish capital of Madrid.
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The Next Web
In a time when everyone is far too familiar with incidents of natural and unanticipated disaster, there is a great need to explore faster and more effective methods of activating relief efforts. Communications technologies play an ever increasing role in emergency response and rescue efforts, as well as overall personal safety.
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Bloomberg via Property Casualty 360
Synthetic drug use by U.S. truckers is a growing and deadly problem, U.S. safety investigators said, in concluding that a Texas trucker was "likely" impaired by a marijuana-like substance when he hit and killed four members of a college women's softball team last year in Oklahoma.
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Reuters via Fox News
Contradictory advice from two European-based agencies about the cancer risk posed by the weed-killer glyphosate offers clarity on only one message: that uncertainty is inherent in the scientific process.
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Emergency Management
Without additional revenue or changes in government and insurance company payment structures, Cambria Alliance Emergency Medical Services Inc. will not survive another three years, municipal leaders were recently told.
"We are physically and financially well right now, but we are looking ahead," Cambria Alliance EMS board member Tom McConnell Jr. told about a dozen township and borough officials.
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The Associated Press via Fox News
Warning: Marijuana use during pregnancy and breast-feeding poses potential harms.
That message would be written on medical and recreational marijuana products and posted wherever they're sold if the nation's most influential doctors group has its way.
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