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NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot
The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...
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Cops kill armed thug in shootout after responding to Brooklyn robbery NYPD
Brooklyn cops gunned down a thief who fired at them while responding to a robbery in progress, the NYPD said.The officers were on patrol in East New York when a livery cab driver approached the cops at around 1:08 a.m. near Hinsdale Street and Dumont Avenue and alerted them to the incident.The responding officers heard gunshots before pulling up and seeing two men struggling over a gun.The ...
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Man fighting for life 3 others hurt after car jumps curb in East Village and plows into deli
A man is fighting for his life after a car jumped a curb and smashed into a deli in the East Village, authorities said.The driver lost control of his white Nissan Altima on Second Avenue near Fourth Street about 7 a.m., and drove into the East Village Grocery, hitting four people, according to witnesses and police.Three of those injured worked at the deli, which had recently reopened after a ...
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Man charged in West Village slay allegedly said he targeted gay man
An accused killer told cops he shot a man dead in the West Village because the victim was gay, authorities said yesterday. "Guy thought he was tough in front of his bitch so I shot him. Diagnosis is dead, doctor," Elliot Morales heartlessly told cops after the May 18 shooting of Mark Carson, 32, according to court papers released at the accused killer’s arraignment yesterday. ...
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Flight 800 Documentary Features Former Crash Investigators Claiming NTSB Findings ‘Falsified’
The re-assembled shell of TWA flight #800 sits inside a hangar at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) training facility (credit: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty ...
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Romeo + Juliet [DVD]
Baz Luhrmann's updated version of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet starts in high gear, pushes itself into overdrive, and eventually redlines and blows the engine long before its over. It's not that updating the Bard is a bad idea--it's been done successfully so many times before that it is literally de rigueur in the world of both theater and film, despite Luhrmann's claims tha ... ...
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It’s Last Week For 26 Schools In New York Archdiocese
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - This is the last week for 26 Catholic schools in the New York Archdiocese. As the Archdiocese looks to consolidate and streamline for long-term viability, some 4,000 students will be displaced. Forty-five percent of them will reportedly not return to Catholic schools. In addition, many teachers will be left ...
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Nicks On Skipping OTAs ‘I Had To Take Care Of Some Things’ WR Takes Some Blame
NEW YORK (WFAN) — As we all know, Giants widereceiverHakeem Nicks was a no-show at the team’s voluntary OTAs last month and early this month. Coach Tom Coughlin was admittedly unhappy that his star receiver was not in attendance.Coughlin said that Nicks told him he’d be there, and the 25-year-old didn’t provide an explanation as to why he opted to skip the practices. ...
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Redford to promote energy industry environmental performance in New York
Premier Alison Redford says she's prepared for "frank" talk in New York on Wednesday as she promotes Alberta's energy sector in the face of environmental black eyes for the province and uncertainty over the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.Redford is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Foreign Policy Association's North American Energy Independence Conference.The ...
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Deport the Statue of Liberty video takes on Immigration Reform
"I came here in some crates by boat, they didn't give me any documents when I arrived," Lady Liberty tells an immigration officer in this video from Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, ...
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Car crashes into New York City grocery store eight injured
A car collided with another car, jumped a curb and smashed into a grocery store in New York City Wednesday, injuring eight people, police said. The cars crashed at 7:30 a.m. near Second Avenue and East Fourth Street in the East Village, WNBC-TV reported. Fire officials said eight people were hospitalized, three of them in serious condition. Five of the injured had been inside the vehicle that ...