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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
Read moreBy: 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 —
Read moreBY 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
Read moreBy 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
Read moreBy 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.
Read moreBy 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
Read moreBy Katie Zezima Article Reprint When asked why President Obama chose to travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., (Go Blue!) to give a speech on the minimum wage Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney responded,
Read moreBy Niraj Chokshi Article Reprint Both chambers of Maine’s legislature gave initial approval this week to a bill that adds the state to a growing list of those seeking to recover revenue lost to offshore
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