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Crime & Punishment: Someone Else Tries to Exploit the Sandy Hook Tragedy For Money
New Britain Mayor Tim O'Brien chose Christmas Eve to quietly announce the cash-strapped city would use $100,000 from the mayor's legal-defense fund to hire a high-power PR firm to promote a bill that would fine the landlords of properties that rack up...
Tags: FBI, Holidays, Politics, Craigslist, Inc., Pregnancy and Childbirth
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The unlikelihood of President Hillary
The votes have been cast, the count has been completed and we all know the winner of the presidential election. So now it's just a matter of letting the Electoral College meet to make the outcome official. Then we can get along with planning the...
Tags: Republican Party, White House, U.S. Electoral College, Mitt Romney, Politics
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Museums in Detroit and D.C. display Obama-themed art
As the nation watches President Obama take the oath of office Monday for his second term, Americans may notice a more mature (and grayer) version of the hopeful candidate depicted in Shepard Fairey's ubiquitous 2008 campaign poster. Since then, Obama'...Tags: Museums, White House, 2012 Democratic National Convention, U.S. Congress, Politics
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Other voice: An inconvenient question
Al Gore, the former vice president and clean-air advocate, and his co-investors have sold liberal cable channel Current TV to Al Jazeera, the network bankrolled by the emir of Qatar. The sale exposes an apparent contradiction between Gore’s...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Current TV (tv network), The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera (tv network), Television
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Sundance 2013: From Kutcher to Pussy Riot, five storylines to watch
The Sundance Film Festival can seem like a most indecipherable hybrid: It’s a movie-industry gathering, a wannabe Mardi Gras, a celebrity pit stop. It's also, of course, a place where some of the most memorable films of our time began their...
Tags: Lake Bell, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Mardi Gras, Celebrities, An Inconvenient Truth (movie)
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Bright House Networks drops Current TV
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe low-rated Current TV is off Bright House Networks after the announcement that the channel was being sold to Al Jazeera. “Our agreement with Current TV has been terminated and we will no longer be carrying the service,” Bright House... -
Al Jazeera in talks to buy Current TV
Current TV, the struggling news/talk channel co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, is in advanced talks to sell itself to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based cable news company, a person close to the stituation confirmed. An announcement regarding a sale...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Fox News Channel (tv network), Current TV (tv network), Al Jazeera (tv network), Keith Olbermann
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It's official: Obama, Biden win second term
President Obama was declared the winner of the 2012 presidential election Friday in a special joint session of Congress, finally closing the book on the tumultuous and expensive campaign. Vice President Joe Biden, serving as president of the Senate,...
Tags: 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, U.S. Electoral College, Mitt Romney, U.S. Congress, Politics
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To fight fracking, what Pennsylvania needs is a masterpiece
Movies can have a tremendous impact on society, if they're skillfully made. "Triumph of the Will" was a stunning documentary that helped Adolf Hitler consolidate power. "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's...
Tags: Environmental Cleanup, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Entertainment, Frances McDormand
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The NRA: Nothing for politicians to be afraid
There's no secret why, for years, politicians of both parties have been afraid to stand up and support tighter controls on guns: Because they're afraid of the NRA. But, after the slaughter of innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School, that fear is all but...
Tags: Republican Party, White House, Gloria Negrete McLeod, U.S. Congress, Firearms
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Election 2000 recount images endure: 'A piece of Americana'
The iconic images of the 2000 recount made a comeback this month, as Florida again had its share of Election Day woes and became a national punchline. The old photos popped up on "The Daily Show" and national newscasts: a balding middle-aged man, eyes...
Tags: Jeb Bush, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Washington, DC
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Asian Americans turn Democratic
As the dust settles on the presidential election, there seems to be a new theory daily as to why Mitt Romney lost and what it signals for the future of the Republican Party. Common to nearly all the speculation are the partisan implications of demographic...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Politics, Voting, Iraq War (2003-2011), Demographics
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Dec 21, 2012
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Nov 24, 2012
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Nov 23, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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