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  Last update: 22:05 25.04.2019

  22:05 25.04.2019

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  Devil’s in the Details: IRS Recognizes Church of Satan for Tax Purposes

  The Satanic Temple, one of a host of Satanic organizations in the US, announced on its website that it has been recognized as a church by the Internal Revenue Service, making it, according to the temple, “the very first time in history [that] a Satanic organization has been recognized by the United States federal government as a church.”

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  Last update: 22:00 25.04.2019

  22:00 25.04.2019

  Tech

  Trip Administration? Anti-Drug White House Still Allowing Breakthrough Psychedelic Research

  Despite fears that the anti-drug Trump administration would stymie the burgeoning field of research into psychedelic compounds, studies on substances like LSD, psilocybin, ketamine, MDMA and ayahuasca have actually continued to receive funding (albeit not from the government), and pass milestones, in the US over the past few years.

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  Last update: 20:54 25.04.2019

  20:54 25.04.2019

  Viral

  'I Spy With My Little Eye…MK Ultra" CIA Sets Up Instagram Account, Immediately Trolled

  Central Intelligence Agency director Gina Haspel earlier indicated that the intelligence service would set up an account on the popular platform "to educate the public" about what the agency does.

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  Last update: 20:48 25.04.2019

  20:48 25.04.2019

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  Low Blow: Herpes Outbreak Reportedly Ravages Coachella Music Fest

  According to a website dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of herpes, some 250 people have applied to them during the first two days of the music festival.

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  Last update: 17:57 25.04.2019

  17:57 25.04.2019

  Tech

  'Geomagnetic Jerks' to Blame for Weakening Magnetic Field, Scientists WARN

  A new study claims to have solved a mystery that has left scientists scratching their heads since 1978.

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  Last update: 18:28 25.04.2019

  18:28 25.04.2019

  World

  UK MPs Warn Threat of Nuclear War ‘Now Greater Than it has Been Since Cold War’

  A British parliamentary survey has specifically claimed that the breakdown of diplomatic collaboration between countries and development of new technologies significantly add to the risk of a nuclear strike.

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  Last update: 15:05 25.04.2019

  15:05 25.04.2019

  World

  US Backtracks on Own Sanctions on Iran's Revolutionary Guards Days After Designation

  Earlier, the US formally designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military unit a foreign terrorist organisation, with Tehran responding by placing first US Central Command and then the entire US military on its own list of terrorist groups.

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  Last update: 19:06 25.04.2019

  19:06 25.04.2019

  World

  Back to Class Again: France’s First Lady To Resume Teaching

  Brigitte Macron put her teaching career on hold when she married Emmanuel Macron. When they first met, he was 15 and she was his married, private school teacher - with a daughter of the same age, in the same class.