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Children's hospital window washer gets 105 years for kiddie porn
New York Post - 19 Apr 2018 03:31
A Nashville man who would dress up as Spider-Man and wash windows at a local children's hospital was no hero behind the mask. Instead the costumed creep was sentenced to 105 years in prison Monday for child pornography. ...
'It smells like rotting corpses, or carcasses. It smells like death.'
Boston - 19 Apr 2018 04:26
"It smells like rotting corpses, or carcasses. It smells like death."
GOP fears a vote to extend tax cuts would aid Democrats
Chicago Tribune - 19 Apr 2018 03:55Iraq says airstrikes hit ISIS 'gangs' in Syria
New York Post - 19 Apr 2018 15:55
BAGHDAD – Iraq on Thursday carried out air strikes on Islamic State positions in Syria a week after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said his country would defend itself from militant threats across the border. Iraqi F-1...
Trump's former attorney is warning him about his current one
The Week - 19 Apr 2018 05:00
A blast from President Trump's past had an urgent message for him on Friday: Don't trust Michael Cohen. Jay Goldberg, Trump's former attorney, told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that on a scale of one to 100, with...
Syracuse frat bros in hot water over 'extremely racist' video
New York Post - 19 Apr 2018 04:48
A series of online videos, which were filmed and posted by a fraternity at Syracuse University, has landed its members in hot water -- with officials calling the clips “extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexis...
A Guide to the Investigations Faced by Scott Pruitt, E.P.A. Chief
The New York Times - 19 Apr 2018 04:44
Democrats in Congress called for the E.P.A. administrator to resign, highlighting the array of ethics and spending investigations he currently faces.
Images from terrifying Southwest flight show passengers didn't put oxygen masks on right
USA Today - 19 Apr 2018 04:433 former US Army soldiers convicted in contract killing
New York Post - 19 Apr 2018 04:12
NEW YORK -- A former US Army sniper and two other ex-American soldiers were convicted Wednesday in the contract killing of a real estate agent in the Philippines for an international crime boss who thought the woman had ...
Undocumented immigrants have few options for legal status
NY Daily News - 19 Apr 2018 04:54
Q. I have lived here 30 years without legal status. How can I get a green card? I came here at age nine.
Puerto Rico's Imbalance of Power: Stadium Lights Glow, Homes Do Not
The New York Times - 19 Apr 2018 04:43
An island-wide blackout related to repairs of the electrical grid wrecked in Hurricane Maria left people in the dark, but a baseball game soldiered on.
Brooklyn man allegedly forced women to work as his prostitutes
NY Daily News - 19 Apr 2018 03:18
A Brooklyn man faces sex trafficking charges for allegedly luring young women to work for him as prostitutes.
Cuba's New President: Loyal Servant of a Revolution He Didn't Fight
The New York Times - 19 Apr 2018 16:41
Most expect Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez to be a president of continuity after Raúl Castro. But he also has to figure out how to resuscitate Cuba's economy.
Ivory Coast ambassador Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue to UN dies
Miami Herald - 19 Apr 2018 16:39
Veteran diplomat Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, the Ivory Coast's ambassador to the United Nations and a member of the U.N. Security Council, has died suddenly. The Security Council began a meeting Thursday …
Trump's attorney withdraws 2 defamation lawsuits
ABC News - 19 Apr 2018 16:38
Michael Cohen, the president's personal attorney, filed the lawsuits earlier this year.
Mexican priest stabbed to death in church
Miami Herald - 19 Apr 2018 16:35
A Roman Catholic priest has been stabbed to death in his church on the outskirts of Mexico City. The Diocese of Izcalli said late Wednesday the victim was the 50-year-old …
National Guard will monitor only 'transitional crime' near Mexico border in California
New York Post - 19 Apr 2018 16:25
California has reached an agreement with Homeland Security to send National Guard troops to the Mexican border but they will not enforce immigration laws or help build a barrier wall, Gov. Jerry Brown said. The 400 Guard...
Racially profiled men arrested at Starbucks say they feared for their lives
New York Post - 19 Apr 2018 16:19
The two men who were racially profiled at a Philadelphia Starbucks and arrested for "trespassing" have spoken out for the first time since their arrest and said they feared for their lives. Rashon Nelson and Donte Robins...
Kremlin says nationalizing sanction-hit Rusal is an option
Miami Herald - 19 Apr 2018 16:13
The Kremlin says a temporary nationalization of aluminum producer Rusal is being discussed after the company was hit by United States sanctions. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov says nationalization …...
Obama wrote the Time 100 blurb about the Parkland activists
The Week - 19 Apr 2018 16:13
Time released its annual list of the 100 most influential people of the year Thursday, and to no surprise, the Parkland activists are featured under the subcategory "pioneers." What might be a bit more surprising is that...
Fraternity suspended for racist, sexist videos posted in secret Facebook group, Syracuse University says
USA Today - 19 Apr 2018 16:08
Syracuse University suspended Theta Tau following reports ofracist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexistvideos the group allegedly posted to Facebook.
Prostitutes claim Dennis Hof assaulted them at his brothels
New York Post - 19 Apr 2018 16:05
Brothel owner Dennis Hof sexually assaulted two prostitutes in Nevada nearly a decade ago, including one woman he allegedly "raped and battered daily," according to the women and a new police report. Hof, 71, denies the ...