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Sunday February 18th, 2018 morning edition

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Larry Krasner Sues Big Pharma, Drops All Marijuana Possession Charges.

With a little over a month in office, Philly’s new DA is already further reforming the city’s drug policy.

Krasner says citations are issued approximately 90 percent of the time someone is caught with marijuana.

From now on, the DA will advise his staff not to pursue criminal charges against anyone arrested for marijuana possession in the city.

“I did it because I felt it was the right thing to do,” Krasner said when asked of his motivation.

“The City of Philadelphia has been hurt, more than any other city in the nation, by the scourge of opioids,” Krasner said in a release. »

Reddit’s The_Donald Was One Of The Biggest Havens For Russian Propaganda During 2016 Election, Analysis Finds

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Reddit’s The_Donald has been billed as the biggest online community of Donald Trump supporters, but during the 2016 election, it also appeared to be one of the internet’s biggest hubs of Russian-based propaganda and conspiracy theories.

This week, Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation announced a series of 13 indictments against Russians for illegally attempting to disrupt the election.

There have already been plenty of warning signs that the users of The_Donald were falling for Russian propaganda during the presidential election. »

Humanity's Biggest Machines Will Be Built in Space

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For the past few years, they’ve operated the Additive Manufacturing Facility, one of the only 3D printers in space.

While the AMF sits comfortably aboard the International Space Station, Made In Space has plans to launch a new printer that would operate exclusively in the vacuum of space.

The ISS is the largest structure ever built in space, and it was done without any fancy robots or 3D printers. »

Earthquake felt across much of England and Wales

Authored by bbc.co.uk

Events of this magnitude happen in the UK every three to five years, the BGS said.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption "The whole building shook": Roxanne Woolhouse describes the tremor.

4.4 magnitude earthquake and we felt it during a talk on continental rifting up in Liverpool. »

Drunk on genocide: how the Nazis celebrated murdering Jews

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At first glance, the incident at the German House might appear to be a grotesque aberration involving a single depraved Nazi killer.

In this case, one of the men, named Müller, had the ‘honour’ of setting fire to ‘his Jews’ as he and his colleagues sat around the fire drinking beer.

In a similar example, Wilhelm Westerheide, a Nazi regional commissar in Ukraine, participated in a two-week massacre of an estimated 15,000 Jews. »