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Fast Forward Chicago Mayor Emanuel Dumps City Ethics Board Members
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Wednesday the replacement of the city’s entire ethics board with seven new members, saying the new board will have the professionalism to do the job in a city notorious for corruption. “These nominees will ensure that everyone in public office understands exactly where they stand and who they serve,” said…
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Fast Forward Obama Campaign Winning Ad War in Key Battleground States
Ads for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign dominated TV airwaves in key states in September, despite Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s powerful “Super PAC” backers, according to an academic analysis released on Wednesday. Republican Super Political Action Committees and tax-exempt advocacy groups – which can raise and spend unlimited funds – had been widely expected to…
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Fast Forward Cyber Attackers Disrupt Internet in Iran
Cyber attackers have targeted Iranian infrastructure and communications companies, disrupting the Internet across the country, a state official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Iran, the world’s No. 5 oil exporter, has tightened cyber security since its uranium enrichment centrifuges were hit in 2010 by the Stuxnet computer worm, which Tehran believes was planted by…
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Fast Forward Albert Einstein’s ‘God Letter’ to be Auctioned Online
A letter handwritten by physicist Albert Einstein a year before his death, expressing his views on religion, will be sold on eBay this month with an opening bid of $3 million, an auction agency said on Tuesday. Known as the “God Letter,” the correspondence offers insights into the private thoughts about religion, God and tribalism…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross, Jailed in Cuba, May Have Cancer
Alan Gross, the American government contractor jailed in Cuba for crimes against the state, could be suffering from an untreated cancer, according to an independent review of his medical records, his U.S. lawyer said on Tuesday. “Gross has a potentially life-threatening medical problem that has not been adequately evaluated to modern medical standards,” U.S.-based radiologist…
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Fast Forward Pro-Settler Vandals Deface Jerusalem Monastery
Suspected hardline Israelis scrawled pro-settler graffiti and religious insults on a monastery outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday, police said, in the latest of a series of attacks on non-Jewish sites. The vandals wrote the phrase “price tag” in Hebrew on the gate of the Monastery of Saint Francis on Mount Zion…
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Fast Forward Jewish Prisoner Argues Texas Must Provide Kosher Food
Lawyers for an imprisoned Jewish man argued in court on Monday that the state of Texas is violating his religious freedom by failing to provide him with kosher meals. Max Moussazadeh, convicted of murder, has been in a Texas prison for 19 years after he served as a lookout during a robbery in which a…
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Fast Forward Iran Economy Under Strain from Sanctions
A precipitous drop in Iran’s currency, the rial, shows that sanctions are cutting “deeper and deeper” into its economy, the United States said on Monday, reiterating Iran must rein in its nuclear program. The rial plunged against the U.S. dollar in open-market trading on Monday, and has lost more than a quarter of its value…
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