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Fast Forward Brussels Museum Shooting Suspect Arrested in France
French police have arrested a man suspected of involvement in the shooting deaths last weekend of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum, officials said on Sunday. The 29-year-old was arrested in the southern French city of Marseille on Friday and had a Kalashnikov and another gun with him, a French police source said. The man,…
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg Learns From Past With $120M Gift to Bay Area Schools
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s gift of $120 million to the San Francisco Bay Area public school system on Friday marks his second attempt at putting huge sums of his own money into turning around failing schools. This time, he can only hope to come under less criticism. Four years ago, Zuckerberg donated $100 million to…
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Fast Forward NBA OK’s $2B Sale of Clippers by Sterlings — Scraps Disciplinary Hearing
The National Basketball Association said on Friday that it has reached an agreement with the estranged wife of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell the team, opening a new chapter for the franchise after 33 years under Sterling. Sterling, 80, was banned for life by the NBA for racist remarks in a private…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Arrest Palestinian Man Wearing Explosive Vest in West Bank
Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank caught a Palestinian man wearing an explosive belt on Friday, police and the military said, preventing what could have been the first suicide attack in the area for years. Border police guarding a busy junction near the Palestinian city of Nablus were suspicious about the man who…
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Fast Forward Steve Ballmer’s $2B Wins Bidding for Donald Sterling Basketball Team
Former Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer has purchased the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers franchise for $2 billion, a record for a professional basketball team, sole trustee Shelly Sterling announced on Friday. In a news release from Greenberg Glusker, Sterling’s counsel, she said she had signed a binding contract to sell the team to Ballmer on…
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Fast Forward David Geffen and Oprah Winfrey Bid $1.5B for Donald Sterling’s Los Angeles Clippers
A group that includes billionaire media executive David Geffen, television icon Oprah Winfrey and Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison bid more than $1.5 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers professional basketball team, according to a person familiar with the bid. The bid was one of several for the franchise. Geffen’s group also includes Guggenheim…
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Fast Forward Michael Bloomberg Tells Harvard Grads To Beware of Intolerance of Liberals
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg used his commencement address at Harvard University on Thursday to bash a U.S. academic culture that he described as increasingly intolerant of ideas from outside a narrow liberal spectrum. Citing the campus protests that caused luminaries including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and International Monetary Fund head Christine…
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Fast Forward After Pope Francis Invitation, Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas To Meet on June 8
Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet at the Vatican and pray for peace together on June 8, the Vatican said on Thursday. Pope Francis invited the two leaders to hold an unprecedented prayer meeting during his trip to the Holy Land last week. The Vatican said the two had accepted…
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