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Fast Forward Israel Wants $5B a Year in American Aid
Israel has made an initial request for its annual U.S. defense aid to increase to as much as $5 billion when its current aid package, worth an average $3 billion a year, expires in 2017, U.S. congressional sources said on Wednesday. Israel wants $5 billion per year in military aid for 10 years, for a…
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Fast Forward Peeping Tom Counter-Terror Official Gets 32 Months in Prison
A former U.S. State Department counterterrorism official was sentenced on Wednesday to 32 months in prison for surreptitiously filming women in their Washington homes, prosecutors said. Daniel Rosen, 45, of Washington, was sentenced in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on six counts of voyeurism and five counts of stalking, the U.S. Attorney’s…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Driver Killed After Injuring Israeli Cop in Car-Ramming
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian driver in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday after he rammed into an Israeli border policeman, critically wounding him, police said. “A border policeman was critically wounded in a ramming attack near (the city of) Hebron,” police said in a statement. “The team of officers at the junction opened…
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Fast Forward Jon Stewart Signs 4-Year Deal With HBO
Comedian Jon Stewart has signed a deal with cable television channel HBO to produce short-form digital content on current events in what will be his first announced entertainment project since quitting “The Daily Show” in August. HBO said in a statement on Tuesday that the four-year agreement will see Stewart producing content that will be…
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Fast Forward Robin Williams Was Mentally and Physically ‘Disintegrating’ Before Suicide, Widow Says
Comedian Robin Williams had been planning to undergo neurological testing the week before he committed suicide last year, and likely only had three years to live, his widow said on Tuesday. In her first interview since Williams hanged himself with a belt at their California home, Susan Williams described how the “Good Morning, Vietnam” Oscar…
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Fast Forward Author Steven Silberman Wins Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
American writer Steve Silberman’s book “Neurotribes,” about the history of autism and how people and society deal with it, was named the winner on Monday of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Silberman’s is the first work of popular science to win the prestigious British award in its 17-year history and comes at a…
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Fast Forward Far Right Austrian Lawmaker Faces Ouster Over Anti-Semitic Facebook Post
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) said on Monday it would dismiss a member of its parliamentary group for an anti-Semitic exchange on Facebook unless she abandoned her seat and left the party voluntarily. The Freedom Party, which several polls suggest is the most popular in Austria, has gained support with anti-immigrant messages during Europe’s worst…
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News Israel Cat Fight Erupts as Minister Pushes to Deport Strays
Claws were out on Monday after an Israeli cabinet minister proposed sending stray dogs and cats to another country as an alternative to government-funded efforts to sterilize them. “Use the budget to transfer stray dogs and/or cats of one gender (all the males or all the females) to a foreign nation that will agree to…
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