Articles focusing on politics

Jonathan Fleming Released by Brooklyn D.A. 24 Years After Wrongful Conviction

By Albert Samaha Article Reprint   Derrick Hamilton, David Ranta, Derrick Deacon, Anthony Yarbough, Sharrif Wilson, Sundhe Moses, Kevin Smith, Eric Glisson, Cathy Watkins, Devon Ayers, Michael Cosme, Carlos Perez, Jabar Collins, William Lopez, et

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U.S. Navy to test futuristic, super-fast gun at sea in 2016

By David Alexander Article Reprint WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy is planning sea trials for a weapon that can fire a low-cost, 23-pound (10-kg) projectile at seven times the speed of sound using electromagnetic

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Report: Al Sharpton Once A Paid FBI Informant on Mob

By Cathy Burke Article Reprint Activist and MSNBC host the Rev. Al Sharpton was once a paid FBI informant, known to agents as “CI-7” and passed along dirt on New York City mobsters, the Smoking

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Ex-aide to Mayor Daley to plead guilty to embezzlement

By: Kim Janssen Article Reprint (Chicago IL.) Mayor Richard M. Daley’s former deputy chief of staff Gene Lee plans to plead guilty to embezzlement and tax fraud charges, his attorney said Monday morning. Lee —

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Chicago Police underreported number of 2012 aggravated assault and battery, audit finds

BY FRANK MAIN AND STEFANO ESPOSITO Article Reprint About one-quarter of victims of aggravated assault and battery failed to get counted in Chicago Police statistics for 2012, according to a city Office of the Inspector

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Solitude’s Despair

By Alexander Nazaryan Article Reprint When the tabloids splash a gruesome crime across their pages—”Suburban Lawyer Stabs Children, Eats Wife”—I yearn for the days of justice dispensed cruelly and unusually, not as a corrective hand

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Turkey keeps YouTube ban after court backtrack

By AFP Article Reprint YouTube will remain blocked in Turkey, despite the end to a similar controversial ban on Twitter, after a court backtracked on an earlier ruling to grant access to the video-sharing site.

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India offers help to Samsung chief over court appearance

By Penelope Macrae  Article Reprint India will help Samsung in “whatever way” it can to avoid the South Korean company’s chairman being forced to appear in an Indian court over a payment dispute, a top

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