Four men snared last year in an FBI sting were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up New York City synagogues and shoot down military planes with the help of a paid informant who convinced them he was a terror operative. (Oct. 18)
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The fertility doctor of Nadya Suleman implanted a dozen embryos in the pregnancy that gave her octuplets, a state attorney said Monday. A state medical board in Calif. is considering whether to revoke his license to practice medicine. (Oct. 18)
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Homeland Security says arrests along the border with Mexico fell during the last fiscal year for the fifth year in a row. Secretary Janet Napolitano credits greater enforcement including against employers, but also says the weak economy played a role. (Oc
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October 18, 2010 No CommentIn August, Ed Schultz reportedly erupted in the MSNBC newsroom over being excluded from the network's election night promos.
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Two suspected gunmen opened fire at a post office in a rural town that was home to “Roots” author Alex Haley, killing two women during what one survivor described as an attempted robbery. (Oct. 18)
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The police killing of a NY college football player in his car while one officer was clinging to the hood and another was hit by the vehicle is being investigated. Danroy Henry was killed hours after Pace University’s homecoming game. (Oct. 18)
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Bank of America will resume seizing more than 100000 homes in 23 states next week. It said it has a legal right to foreclose despite accusations that documents used in the process were flawed. (Oct. 18)
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President Obama has accomplished so much during his tenure with so little gratitude from the American people, lamented the Monday panel for MSNBC's “Morning Joe.” What is to blame? Poor marketing by the White House, the panelists answered. “Where is the celebration over what has been done and accomplished in the face of all this anger and vitriol in Washington?” complained co-host Mika Brzezinski. “No credit. No credit at all for what he's accomplished,” lamented “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl. Like something from the novel Frankenstein, Stahl cast Obama's rescue of the economy as a doctor saving the life of a horrible burn victim. “He saves the guy's life – this is our economy…but the guy wakes up and he's got scars all over his face, and that's all he sees, that's all anybody sees,” she described. “And how – what's the doctor supposed to say? And that's what [Obama] is fighting, he's fighting an economy that just won't give him anything.” So after so much has been accomplished, why are the Democrats not campaigning on the Obama agenda?
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As the standoff between Cablevision and News Corp over broadcast fees drags on for a second day, New Yorkers have already had enough. (Oct. 18)
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Ten popular Facebook applications – including Farmville – have been reportedly transmitting user IDs to advertising and Internet tracking companies. (Oct. 18)
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