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News Jewish Stripper Fleeces Wealthy Men in $200K Date-Rape Drug Scam
Four New York City strippers and a club manager have been arrested in an alleged plot to drug wealthy men and run up false charges on their credit cards, officials said on Wednesday. The scheme fleeced the victims of roughly $200,000 in less than four months, according to the New York City’s Office of the…
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Fast Forward Republicans Scramble After Stunning Eric Cantor Loss
Republican lawmakers are scrambling to identify the party’s future leaders after the shock primary election defeat of Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, by an upstart candidate from the Tea Party movement. House Majority Leader Cantor was defeated on Tuesday in a primary race in his Virginia district by a…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver Faces Suit Claiming He ‘Abetted’ Ally’s Sex Harassment of Aides
New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver must face claims that he “aided and abetted” a former assemblyman’s sexual harassment of two young female employees by failing to take official action, a U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres rejected Silver’s bid to throw out the lawsuit, which was filed last summer…
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Fast Forward German President Gets OK To Call Neo-Nazis ‘Nut Cases’
Germany’s president did not breach the constitution when he described a far-right party as “nutcases”, the country’s top court ruled on Tuesday. President Joachim Gauck used the term last year to refer to the National Democratic Party (NPD), widely seen as made up of neo-Nazis inspired by Adolf Hitler and which last month won enough…
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Fast Forward Right Winger Reuven Rivlin Elected President of Israel
Reuven Rivlin, a right-wing legislator opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state, was elected Israel’s president on Tuesday to replace the dovish Shimon Peres in the largely ceremonial post. Rivlin, 74, is a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. He has a reputation for political independence and has had a frosty personal…
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Fast Forward Shelly Sterling Plans Charity With Share of $2B Sale of Los Angeles Clippers
A charitable foundation to be run by Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling, whose estranged husband, Donald Sterling, is being forced to sell the NBA team after making racist remarks, will have a stake in the franchise, a source close to negotiations said on Monday. The foundation can have up to a 10 percent share…
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Fast Forward Israeli Spy Boss Praises Iran for Nuclear Progress
Iran is negotiating seriously on a deal to curb its disputed nuclear program, a senior Israeli intelligence officer said on Monday in a shift of tone from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s skepticism. Brigadier-General Itai Brun, military intelligence’s chief analyst, told a strategic forum that Iran was honoring a November interim agreement that Netanyahu had condemned…
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Fast Forward New ‘Oldest Man’ Born Day After 111-Year-Old Survivor
The world’s new oldest man was born just 24 hours after Alexander Immich, the New York Holocaust survivor who died over the weekend. The ranking now goes to Sakari Momoi of Japan, born on Feb. 5, 1903, one day after Imich, according to the Gerontology Research Group of Torrance, California. Dozens of women were older…
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