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Fast Forward Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Blames Slow Growth on Beltway Gridlock
Dysfunction in Washington is one of the biggest drags on the U.S. economy, undermining confidence and crimping growth, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Tuesday. “One of the most significant speed bumps for growth is coming straight from Washington, where some political leaders continue to generate one manufactured crisis after the next,” Lew said in…
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Fast Forward ‘Morning After’ Pill Judge Slams Feds for ‘Nonsense’ Age Restrictions
A federal judge criticized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over its refusal to make emergency contraception available to girls of all ages without a prescription, saying the agency’s move to restrict distribution to consumers aged 15 and older was not realistic. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman on April 5 ordered the FDA to lift…
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Fast Forward Syria’s Assad Insists He Will Confront Israel
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday his country was able to confront Israeli aggression, Lebanese media reported, in the leader’s first comments since the Jewish state launched a series of air strikes on military sites in Damascus. “The recent Israeli aggressions expose the size of the complicity between the Israeli occupation, regional countries and…
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Fast Forward Radical Islam Spreads in Prisons of France
In France, the path to radical Islam often begins with a minor offence that throws a young man into an overcrowded, violent jail and produces a hardened convert ready for jihad. With the country on heightened security alert since January when French troops began fighting al Qaeda-linked Islamists in Mali, authorities are increasingly worried about…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders Urge Hungary Crackdown on Anti-Semitic Jobbik Party
The World Jewish Congress urged Hungary on Tuesday to crack down on the far-right Jobbik party and called on governments in Europe to consider banning neo-Nazi parties threatening democracy and minority rights. The WJC plenary assembly, held in the Hungarian capital rather than Jerusalem to highlight rising anti-Semitism in Hungary, passed a resolution saying Budapest…
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Fast Forward Prisoner X Botched Mossad Plan to Recover Israeli Bodies: Report
An Australian emigrant and disgraced Mossad spy who died in an Israeli jail in 2010 was arrested after interfering in a secret Israeli intelligence operation to recover the bodies of soldiers killed in the 1982 Lebanon war, an Australian news report said on Tuesday. Ben Zygier was arrested in January 2010 and held in secret…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Quietly Puts Brakes on Settlement Expansion
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has quietly curbed new building projects in Jewish settlements, an Israeli watchdog group and media reports said on Tuesday, in an apparent bid to help U.S. efforts to revive peace talks with the Palestinians. “We see there are fewer approvals for new construction in the West Bank since President Barack Obama…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Guard Who Was No. 4 on ‘Most Wanted’ Nazi List Arrested in Germany
German police on Monday arrested a suspected former guard at the Auschwitz death camp and Nazi-hunting group Simon Wiesenthal named him as Hans Lipschis. Prosecutors in the southwestern city of Stuttgart did not name the man but said police had arrested a 93-year-old alleged former Auschwitz guard with the “strong suspicion” he was involved in…
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