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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Back Amid Gaza Flare Up
Israeli tank fire killed four Palestinians and wounded 25 in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after an anti-tank missile hit an Israeli army jeep wounding four soldiers, and Palestinian fighters fired rockets into southern Israel in a new flare-up of fighting. In a major clash that carried the risk of escalation, Palestinian militants vowed to…
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Fast Forward Dentists Sue for $5M Over Sandy Crane Collapse
Two New York City dentists have filed a $5 million lawsuit against the contractor at a nearly completed 90-story luxury apartment building, blaming it for the collapse of the top of a construction crane during superstorm Sandy. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Friday, said the contractor, Australia’s Lend Lease Construction…
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Fast Forward Philip Roth Announces Plans To Retire
Seminal author Philip Roth, whose novels explored modern Jewish-American life, has told a French magazine that he will write no more books because he has lost his passion for it. The author of such novels as “American Pastoral”, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and “Portnoy’s Complaint” slipped his retirement announcement into an interview…
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Fast Forward Lew and Sandberg Top Short List for Treasury
President Barack Obama, fresh from his re-election victory, will have to turn his attention quickly to naming a new Treasury Secretary, one of the most powerful positions in world finance. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will stay through inauguration day, Jan. 21, the White House said, leaving Obama to find someone else to take on the…
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Fast Forward Charles Darwin Gets 4,000 Votes Against Anti-Evolution Rep
A Georgia congressman who attacked the theory of evolution found himself with an unlikely opponent in Tuesday’s election when 4,000 voters in one county cast write-in ballots for the 19th century father of evolution, British naturalist Charles Darwin. In a speech, Paul Broun, a physician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space…
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Fast Forward At Last! Florida Dems Claim Obama Victory
Florida’s Democratic Party declared victory for President Barack Obama in the closely divided battleground state on Thursday, as he clung to a narrow but apparently insurmountable lead in the glacially slow tallying of votes from Tuesday’s election. If Obama wins Florida, it will add to his Electoral College margin and he will have won all…
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Fast Forward Madoff Employee Faces 10 Years for Fraud
One of Bernard Madoff’s longest-serving employees pleaded guilty on Thursday to falsifying records, a conspiracy that a prosecutor said began in the 1970s at the start of the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Irwin Lipkin, 74, a former controller of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, told a Manhattan federal court judge that for years he fudged…
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Fast Forward Bibi Vows Cooperation in Call to Obama
Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Barack Obama to congratulate him on his re-election on Thursday, after critics accused the Israeli prime minister of backing Mitt Romney and jeopardising ties with Washington. Relations between Netanyahu and Obama have long been testy, mainly over how to deal with Iran’s nuclear programme. After Obama’s re-election on Tuesday, some of Netanyahu’s…
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