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NBC News: Brian Williams suspended for 6 months without pay — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has been suspended for six months without pay following his false claims about an experience he had during the Iraq war, NBC News president Deborah Turness announced Tuesday night.
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Brian Williams Suspended From NBC for 6 Months Without Pay
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Following Suspension, Brian Williams Probably Wishes He'd Gotten the Tonight Show Job He Wanted

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NBC will resolve Brian Williams controversy ‘today or tomorrow’: sources
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Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show — Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's ‘The Daily Show,’ will step down later this year, the president of the network confirmed in a statement to POLITICO on Tuesday. — “For the better part of the last two decades, I have had the incredible honor and privilege of working with Jon Stewart.
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Jon Stewart says he's leaving The Daily Show — Ending one of the most venerable and trusted careers in making a complete mockery of the news, Jon Stewart has announced that he is stepping down as host of The Daily Show. According to sources who were there (some of whom are already passing word along …


Jon Stewart Will Leave ‘The Daily Show’ on a Career High Note — Jon Stewart, who turned Comedy Central's “The Daily Show” into a sharp-edged commentary on current events, delivering the news in layers of silliness and mockery, said on Tuesday that he would step down after more than 16 years as its anchor.

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Jon Stewart to sign off ‘Daily Show’
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Three college students killed in Chapel Hill shooting; 46-year-old man charged — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A 46-year-old Chapel Hill man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder after three college students were shot and killed Tuesday evening at a condominium complex on Summerwalk Circle in Chapel Hill, authorities said.
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Chapel Hill police arrest man in triple homicide — CHAPEL HILL — Police charged a Chapel Hill man Wednesday with first-degree murder in the deaths of three Muslim students in a quiet neighborhood near Meadowmont just south of N.C. 54. — Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, is being held …
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Man Charged in Deaths of 3 Students Near University of North Carolina
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3 Muslim students shot to death in apartment near UNC Chapel Hill
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Obama: I didn't mislead voters on gay marriage — President Obama is denying a former top political adviser's contention that he intentionally deceived voters about his position on gay marriage in an interview published Wednesday. — The president said David Axelrod, his former senior adviser …
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Full Transcript Of BuzzFeed News' Interview With President Barack Obama — FULL TRANSCRIPT: — BuzzFeed News: So, eight years ago, today actually, you announced your campaign in Springfield. I read that speech last night and I was struck by how much it's a generational call to your generation, I guess to some degree mine.
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Obama Defends His Legacy: “These Are The Kinds Of Things You Learn” — WASHINGTON — On Feb. 10, 2007, Barack Obama stood outside the state capitol in Springfield, Illinois, and announced his candidacy for president, promising a generational call to change the “ways of Washington,” gauzily promising a “future of endless possibility.”
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Obama's ISIS war powers request to ban ‘enduring’ troops — The White House will ask Congress to approve military action against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that bans “enduring offensive ground operations.” — Administration officials briefed lawmakers on Tuesday …
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Obama sends Congress request for military force against IS
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Obama to Seek War Power Bill From Congress, to Fight ISIS
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Grandfather visiting Alabama from India stopped by police while taking walk, left partly paralyzed — Madison police last week roughed up a 57-year-old Indian citizen who was walking on the sidewalk outside his son's home, leaving the older man temporarily paralyzed and hospitalized with fused vertebrae.
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Emerging Clinton Team Shows Signs of Disquiet — Lingering tensions between Hillary Rodham Clinton's loyalists and the strategists who helped President Obama defeat her in 2008 have erupted into an intense public struggle over who will wield money and clout in her emerging 2016 presidential campaign.
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How Conservatives Are Pushing Liberals Out Of Christianity — Most of the public controversy over the president's remarks at this year's National Prayer Breakfast involved his reminder that Muslims were not alone in harboring “sinful tendenc[ies] that can pervert and distort our faith.”
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Jeb Bush dumps emails, home addresses, and social security numbers of Florida residents online — Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida.


New Questions Swirl on an Affordable Care Act Challenger — Plaintiff Listed Motel as Her Address, Which Was Basis for Her Legal Grounds — One of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case against the Affordable Care Act listed a short-term-stay motel as her address when she joined the lawsuit …
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Anti-Semitic horrors don't exist in Obama's world — At Tuesday's press briefing, White House mouthpiece Josh Earnest said something disgusting — I don't know how else to describe it — about the massacre at the Hyper Casher kosher supermarket in Paris one month ago.
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