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Flash Mob Violence Poses New Challenge for Police
Across the U.S. police are on high alert, following a string of flash mob crimes. The culprits swarm onto a scene and then fizzle out in the blink of an eye, which makes these crimes especially difficult to stop.
Surveillance video like the kind...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Arts and Culture, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Facebook, Crimes
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Day Laborers Protest Death Of Detained Salvadoran National
ABC26 NewsDay laborers protested the death of a detainee. He died in federal custody. The workers gathered outside the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE. The workers want to know what happened behind the barbed wire. They say ICE...Tags: Asphyxiation, Immigration, Employees, Career and Workplace, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Sunshine Week shines light on government transparency
For Immediate Release March 19, 2009 MEDIA CONTACT: Stephen Evans Office: 225.346.3117 Mobile: 225.978.1244 sevans@recoverycorps.org Sunshine Week shines light on government transparency BATON ROUGE, La. -- As the grips of a national economic...Tags: Disasters, FEMA, Baton Rouge, Politics, State Budgets
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Nagin's Cuban Love Affair
ABC26 Political AnalystOn Thursday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his entourage returned from their six day trip to communist Cuba. The supposed purpose of the visit was for the Mayor to investigate Cuba's hurricane preparedness programs and to bolster trade ties with the...Tags: Elections, Entertainment, Disasters, Crimes, Travel
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Louisiana, Mississippi Newspaper Award Winners
Staff reporterNEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Managing Editors' winners in the annual competition for news stories, editorials, photos, graphics and headlines published by AP member newspapers in Louisiana and Mississippi during 2008. The...Tags: Greg Ellis, Murder, Disasters, Ben Kelly, Politics
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AP fired reporter who broke news of WWII's end; now it apologizes
The Associated Press, the nation’s premier wire service whose reach is so broad that it often defines technical and ethical style for many other media outlets, has apologized for its treatment and dismissal of a foreign correspondent who broke the...
Tags: News Media, Germany, Wars and Interventions, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Reel China: He's Beijing's answer to Roger Ebert
Raymond Zhou became China's most famous film critic by happenstance. It was 2001, and his work as the editor in chief of a bilingual high-tech website in Silicon Valley had been halved. With extra time on his hands, and unemployment looming, Zhou...Tags: Cinema Industry, Steven Spielberg, Arts and Culture, Communist Party, Roger Ebert
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Literature, Marguerite Duras, Edward Albee, New York City, Politics
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#TwitterBlackout: Tweeters protest nation-specific blocks [Updated]
TechnologyTwitter is faced a growing backlash on Friday, less than a day after it announced that it can now block specific tweets from being published in specific countries that legally require it. On Friday, a day after the country-specific censorship plan was... -
MPAA's Dodd says Hollywood is pro-Internet but anti-piracy
Company TownChristopher Dodd: MPAA head Christopher Dodd said that Hollywood is pro-Internet, but opposes online piracy.... -
Bloggers in China sound off on SOPA blackout
Watching from China, where web censorship is practically a national hallmark, some can’t help but smirk and crack jokes about the controversy raging over Internet freedom in the U.S.
“Now the U.S. government is copying us and starting to...Tags: Twitter, Inc., NBA Lockout (2011), Ryan Seacrest, Politics, Services and Shopping
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Websites go black to protest anti-piracy bills in Congress
LOS ANGELES TIMESWhat would the world be like without the Internet? Fire up your browser and see what you can't do. In the first strike of its kind, hundreds of popular sites such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing temporarily shut down Wednesday to protest a pair of...Tags: Strikes, Labor Disputes, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Politics, Labor Disputes
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