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
Read moreTurkey 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.
Read moreIndia 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
Read morePresident Obama is in Michigan to talk minimum wage today. Here’s why.
By 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 moreHow Maine hopes to recover $10 million a year from tax havens
By 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
Read moreOne dead, several injured after two gunmen open fire on Fort Hood: report
The shooting broke out about 4:30 p.m. and killed at least one person at the military post in Killeen, Texas. As many as eight people may be injured and there may be two shooters involved.
Read morePutin Seahawks versus the Obama Broncos
by Torrance Stephens Article Reprint If I may, I would like to explain the terse yet strange relationship between President Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin. To use a basic football analogy, like the Seahawks, Putin
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