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Maggie Steenland / press.nbcnews.com:
A Personal Note from Brian Williams — In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions. — As Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News, I have decided to take myself off …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Anchors Aweigh — WASHINGTON — THIS was a bomb that had been ticking for a while. — NBC executives were warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Hemingwayesque …
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Bruce Jenner in Horrible Car Crash — 1 Person Dead … SCOOTER BRAUN — Now Has Little Scooter — WIFE GIVES BIRTH — 52 MINUTES AGO BY TMZ STAFF — EXCLUSIVE
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White House defends Prayer Breakfast remarks about the Crusades — The White House on Friday defended President Obama's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast after he was widely lambasted by conservatives for bringing up acts done in Christianity's name amid a discussion of modern-day terrorist threats.
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The New York Times Commits One of Its Funniest Blunders Ever — Via Don Surber and Logan Dobson, another knee-slapper from the editorial board of the New York Times. The paper published an editorial attacking Scott Walker yesterday. Nothing noteworthy about that, except that the Times kept calling him “Mr. Scott.”
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Netanyahu Opponent: His Speech to Congress ‘Endangers’ Israel's Security — One of Benjamin Netanyahu's election opponents this year is Isaac Herzog, a Zionist Camp/Labor party leader, who has some pretty tough words about Netanyahu's upcoming address to the United States Congress.
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Robert Michael Phillips / Palm Beach Post:
West Palm Beach man who lists ‘drug dealer’ as occupation arrested — A West Palm Beach man who listed his occupation on an arrest report as “drug dealer” was arrested Tuesday and faces a host of charges, many of them involving drugs. — Robert Michael Phillips has been arrested …
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Obama administration issues 5.5M work permits to non-citizens; critics call it ‘shadow’ immigration system — FILE: June 18, 2014: U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. (AP) — Since 2009, the Obama administration …
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New York Times:
Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to Elite New York Real Estate — Credit: Todd Heisler/The New York Times — On the 74th floor of the Time Warner Center, Condominium 74B was purchased in 2010 for $15.65 million by a secretive entity called 25CC ST74B L.L.C. It traces to the family of Vitaly Malkin …
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2015 SCC 5 — File No.: 35591. — 2014: October 15; 2015: February 6. — Present: McLachlin C.J. and LeBel, Abella, Rothstein, Cromwell, Moldaver, Karakatsanis, Wagner and Gascon JJ. — on appeal from the court of appeal for british columbia
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In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Room for a Baby — Three years ago, Elise Porter and Jose Moran Moya decided to move from a noisy, cramped studio near Union Square in Manhattan. — “I was not going to move to Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not New York; it is so far away from everything,” said Mr. Moran Moya, who grew up in Madrid.
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D.R. Tucker / Washington Monthly:
Empire State of Mind — Add me to the list of those who want to see the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Brooklyn. Granted, I would have really preferred to see the convention in Boston again, notwithstanding some of the logistical headaches that accompanied the 2004 convention.