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Fast Forward New York Bolsters Security at Tourist Areas after Deadly Paris Attacks
The New York Police Department said it had bolstered security at high-profile locations around the largest U.S. city on Friday in response to what officials believe were coordinated attacks in Paris which have killed at least 140 people. After news of the carnage, officers from the NYPD’s Counterterrorism Response Command and other special units were…
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Fast Forward Over 140 People Killed in Multiple Paris Attacks, Hostage Situation is Over
France was rocked by multiple, near simultaneous attacks on entertainment sites around Paris on Friday evening and French media said at least 60 people were killed and hostages were being held in a concert hall in the capital. The apparently coordinated gun and bomb attacks came as the country, a founder member of the U.S.-led…
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Fast Forward Hollande Decrees State of Emergency, Shut Borders Following Terror Attacks
French President Francois Hollande said a state of emergency would be declared across France and national borders shut following a spate of attacks in Paris on Friday evening in which he said dozens were killed and several wounded. “It is horror,” Hollande said in a brief statement on television, adding that a cabinet meeting had…
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Fast Forward President Obama Calls Attacks ‘Outrageous Attempt to Terrorize Civilians’
U.S. President Barack Obama pledged his government’s support to France on Friday after a series of attacks in Paris, but said he did not yet know the details of what had happened and that the situation was still unfolding. “Once again we’ve seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians,” Obama told reporters at the…
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Fast Forward Prosecutors Want Jared Fogle Behind Bars for 12 Years for Child Sex
Federal prosecutors recommended on Thursday that former Subway sandwich spokesman Jared Fogle spend 12 and a half years in prison and be under lifetime supervision for child pornography and having sex with two minors. Fogle, who became famous after losing weight on a diet that included sandwiches from the fast food chain, agreed in August…
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Fast Forward Yale President Admits ‘Work To Do’ on Racial Tumult
More than 1,000 students, professors and staff at Yale University gathered on Wednesday to discuss race and diversity at the elite Ivy League school, amid a wave of demonstrations at U.S. colleges over the treatment of minority students. The forum, originally scheduled to be held at the school’s African-American Cultural Center, was moved to Yale’s…
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Fast Forward Israel Raids West Bank Hospital — Kills Palestinian
Israeli undercover forces raided a hospital in the West Bank on Thursday, shooting dead a Palestinian during an attempt to detain another man suspected of carrying out a stabbing, the Palestinian health ministry and doctors said. The Israeli army confirmed the raid and shooting but did not have details of the man’s condition. It said…
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Fast Forward Yale President Meets Protesting Students Amid Racial Uproar
Students at Yale University on Wednesday plan a campus forum on race and diversity issues at the elite Ivy League school, amid a wave of demonstrations at U.S. colleges over the treatment of minority students. The forum, to be held at the school’s African American Cultural Center, comes two days after about 1,000 students briefly…
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