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Fast Forward Songwriter Gerry Goffin, Ex-Husband of Carole King, Dies at 75
Gerry Goffin, the lyricist who co-wrote some of the biggest hit songs of the 1960s with his former wife and longtime collaborator Carole King, died on Thursday at age 75, King said in a message posted on Facebook. Goffin, who died of natural causes at his Beverly Hills home, co-wrote numerous top-40 singles with King,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Start-Up Mobileye Files for $100M IPO
Mobileye N.V., which makes software and cameras that help cars avoid accidents, filed with U.S. regulators on Thursday to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering. The Israel-based company listed Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as lead underwriters to the IPO, according to a regulatory filing. The company’s collision-avoidance technology is used…
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Fast Forward Dov Charney Ousted From American Apparel
Clothing and accessories retailer American Apparel Inc ousted its controversial founder Dov Charney as chairman effective immediately and moved to fire him as CEO and president following an ongoing investigation into alleged misconduct. Charney, who has been repeatedly targeted in sexual harassment lawsuits, will be terminated for cause after a contractual 30-day cure period, the…
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Fast Forward Gun Battle Erupts as Israel Presses Search for Kiddnapped Teens
Israeli forces traded gunfire with Palestinians on Thursday, the military said, in the fiercest street battles in the occupied West Bank since a search began for three Israeli teenagers missing for a week. Hospital officials said three Palestinians suffered bullet wounds in the overnight clashes in Jenin, a militant stronghold and the scene of deadly…
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Fast Forward 89-Year-Old Philadelphia Man Faces German Trial as Nazi Camp Guard
Germany is seeking extradition of an 89-year-old Pennsylvania man in connection with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jewish men, women and children at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald Nazi concentration camps, a U.S. judge said on Wednesday. Johann Breyer was arrested by U.S. authorities on Tuesday at his home in Philadelphia on allegations that…
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Fast Forward Israel Arrests 51 Prisoners It Freed in Gilad Shalit Swap as Crackdown Widens
Israel re-arrested 51 Palestinians freed in a 2011 prisoner swap deal, the army said on Wednesday, in the sixth day of a hunt for three missing teenagers believed abducted in the occupied West Bank. Israel accuses Hamas Islamists of kidnapping the seminary students, who disappeared on Thursday while hitchhiking from a Jewish settlement. There has…
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Fast Forward Paul Simon Escapes Charges in Domestic Spat
Prosecutors have decided not to go forward with charges against Grammy Award-winning musicians Paul Simon and Edie Brickell after the couple had a fight in April at their Connecticut home, a court clerk said on Tuesday. Simon, 72, and Brickell, 48, who married in 1992, were scheduled to appear in Norwalk Superior Court for a…
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Fast Forward Israel Detains 40 Hamas Leaders in Kidnapped Teens Search
Israeli forces detained more than 40 Hamas militants on Tuesday, the military said, in a West Bank crackdown on the Islamist group that is being conducted in tandem with a search for three missing teenagers. Israel blames Hamas for the abduction of the Jewish seminary students, who went missing last Thursday. The Islamist movement, which…
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