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Fast Forward Treasury Says No to $1T Platinum Coin Plan
So much for the $1 trillion platinum coin idea. The U.S. Treasury Department said on Saturday it will not produce platinum coins as a way of generating $1 trillion in revenue and avoiding a battle in Congress over raising the U.S. debt ceiling. The idea of creating $1 trillion by minting platinum coins has gained…
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Fast Forward Jewish Candidate Loses Czech Presidential Race
Former leftist Prime Minister Milos Zeman narrowly won the first round of the Czech Republic’s presidential election on Saturday but will face a strong challenge from the country’s aristocratic foreign minister in a run-off round. Jan Fischer, who stood to become the country’s first Jewish leader, had been favored to make the run-off but was…
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Fast Forward Israel Clears Palestinians From E1 Camp
Israeli security forces removed about 100 Palestinians early on Sunday from tents pitched in an area of the West Bank as a protest against Israeli plans to build a settlement there. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Palestinian outpost, built in the geographically sensitive area known as E1, could remain for six days…
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Fast Forward Aaron Swartz’s Family Lashes Out at Prosecutors
The family and partner of web activist Aaron Swartz lashed out at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and prosecutors, suggesting their moves to hound him may have contributed to his suicide. “Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach,” the…
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Fast Forward Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Leader, Suffers Minor Stroke
An Israeli rabbi who is the spiritual head of a powerful ultra-Orthodox political party was taken to hospital with a suspected minor stroke on Saturday, 10 days before a general election. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who has largely set the terms under which his Shas party has agreed to join a succession of governments, was taken…
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Fast Forward Lautenberg Rival Cory Booker Plans N.J. Senate Run
Cory Booker, the New Jersey mayor who is a rising star in the Democratic party, filed documents on Friday revealing his intention to run for the U.S. Senate in 2014, possibly setting up a primary challenge against 88-year-old Democratic incumbent Frank Lautenberg Booker, the 43-year-old mayor of Newark, announced in December he would “explore the…
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Fast Forward Hamas: IDF Soldiers Kill Palestinian Along Gaza Border
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian and seriously wounded another in the northern Gaza Strip near the border with Israel on Friday, the Islamist group Hamas and hospital officials said. The Israeli military said the soldiers opened fire after dozens of Palestinians approached the border fence, an area Israel has long designated as off-limits to…
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Fast Forward Boehner Sets February 12 as Date for State of the Union
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Friday formally invited President Barack Obama to deliver the annual state of the union address to Congress on Feb. 12. In a letter inviting Obama to address a joint session of Congress, Boehner, a Republican, said Americans expected Congress and the White House to work together to…
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