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Fast Forward Madoff’s Younger Brother Sentenced to 10 Years
The younger brother of Bernard Madoff will serve 10 years in prison for his role in his brother’s Ponzi scheme that stole billions of dollars from investors, a U.S. judge said on Thursday. Peter Madoff, 67, pleaded guilty in June to criminal charges including conspiracy to commit securities fraud for falsifying the books and records…
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Fast Forward Rahm Emanuel Blasts NRA, Calls for New Gun Laws
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted the National Rifle Association as he called for new gun control measures after the Newtown school shootings. The former White House chief of staff worried publicly that the NRA would mount an aggressive lobbying campaign to prevent new measures. “I fully expect the NRA to do exactly what they always…
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Fast Forward Israel Strike on Gaza Media Illegal: Watchdog
Israel’s killing of two Palestinian journalists and attacks on media facilities during its Gaza offensive last month violated the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Two cameramen working for al-Aqsa TV, a station affiliated with Gaza’s Hamas-run government, were killed by Israeli air strikes on their car on Nov. 20. Israeli planes…
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Fast Forward Giants Star Victor Cruz Visits Newtown
A visit with the grief-stricken family of a six-year-old victim from last week’s Connecticut elementary school massacre has left New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz looking at life through a different lens. The National Football League player said on Wednesday the 75-minute visit to the home of six-year-old Giants fan Jack Pinto, who was a…
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Fast Forward More Newtown Funerals Loom as Gun Debate Rages
Six more victims of the Newtown school shooting will be honored at funerals and remembrances on Wednesday, including the school principal who was killed with 20 of her students and five other staff members at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The massacre of so many children, most of them just 6 or 7 years old,…
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Fast Forward Strauss-Kahn Must Face Pimp Case in France
A French court on Wednesday rejected a request by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to drop a sex offence inquiry in which he risks standing trial on pimping charges, his lawyers said. The ruling was given just over a week after Strauss-Kahn settled a separate civil case in New York with a hotel maid who…
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Fast Forward Jews Older Than Members of Other Faiths
People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world’s faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus. The study, based on extensive data for the year 2010, also showed Islam and Hinduism are the faiths mostly likely to expand in the…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Groups Push Against Chuck Hagel
Pro-Israel groups, neoconservatives and even some former colleagues on Capitol Hill are confronting President Barack Obama with a growing backlash against Chuck Hagel, the ex-Republican senator tipped as his leading candidate for defense secretary. Obama’s aides have given no sign of dropping Hagel from consideration – even after several American Jewish leaders privately complained about…
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