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TMZ.com:
Paul Walker Dead — ‘Fast and The Furious’ Star Dies in Fiery Car Crash — DEAD AT 40 IN FIERY CAR CRASH — EXCLUSIVE — Paul Walker — best known for his role in “The Fast and the Furious” movies — died Saturday afternoon after a single-car accident and explosion in Southern California ... TMZ has learned.
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Cary Osborne / signalscv.com:
Actor Paul Walker killed in Valencia car crash — Two people were killed Saturday afternoon when a Porsche sports car crashed and burst into flames in Valencia, and the passenger was actor Paul Walker, his publicist confirmed to the Associated Press — “Sadly I have to confirm that Paul Walker …
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CNN:
Train derails in New York, killing 4 — Bronx train derailment — New York (CNN) — A passenger train derailment Sunday morning killed at least four people and injured 63 others, officials said. — Firefighters and emergency rescuers swarmed the scene near Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx …
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New York Times:
4 Dead in Metro-North Train Derailment in the Bronx — At least four people were killed after a Metro-North Railroad train derailed Sunday morning in the Bronx along the Hudson River, officials said. — A total of 67 people were injured — 11 critically — a New York Fire Department spokesman, Jim Long, said.
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ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Metro-North train derails in the Bronx — mass transit, train accident, metro north, abc7 traffic center — NEW YORK (WABC) — Authorities say a Metro-North train has derailed in the Bronx, and multiple injuries are reported. — It happened at 7:20 Sunday morning at Palisades Avenue …
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Obama Administration Declares That It Has ‘Met The Goal’ Of Improving The Obamacare Site — The Obama administration is out with a progress report on HealthCare.gov, the federal health care website that it pledged in late October would be fixed for the “vast majority” of users by Nov. 30.
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Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
Health Site Is Improving But Likely to Miss Saturday Deadline
Health Site Is Improving But Likely to Miss Saturday Deadline
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P.J. O'Rourke / Wall Street Journal:
The Boomer Bust — Here we are in the baby boom cosmos. What have we wrought? — The Baby Boom generation spans eighteen years. Already, the earliest boomers have reached retirement age. Many are getting more conservative as they get older. WSJ's Jason Bellini reports.
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New York Times:
Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Care Site, and Obama — WASHINGTON — As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Obama's chief domestic accomplishment was falling apart 24 miles away, at a bustling high-tech data center in suburban Virginia.
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Steve Coll / New Yorker:
HIGHER CALLING — In 2005, Alaska Airlines fired nearly five hundred union baggage handlers in Seattle and replaced them with contractors. The old workers earned about thirteen dollars an hour; the new ones made around nine. The restructuring was a common episode in America's recent experience of inequality.
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Puerto Rico, with at least $70 billion in debt, confronts a rising economic misery — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Boxes and wooden crates filled with household items bound for the U.S. mainland are stacked high in the Rosa del Monte moving company's cavernous warehouse, evidence of the historic rush …
NY Daily News:
Elderly woman could be city's 10th ‘knockout game’ victim — Yvonne Small, 76, fell to the ground after being punched by her assailant on Alabama Ave. and Wortman Ave. in East New York about 11:35 a.m. — The New York City Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying …
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Jason Seher / CNN:
Rogers: Obama administration ‘screwed up’ Syria deal — Washington (CNN) - Two and a half months after the U.S. backed off its threat to launch a bombing campaign against the Syrian regime, not everyone in Congress is happy with the easing of tensions. — In an interview that aired Sunday morning …
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