Wednesday, March 8, 2017

High-profile plagiarism cases and other top stories.

  • High-profile plagiarism cases

    High-profile plagiarism cases
    Monica Crowley, a conservative columnist and TV personality chosen by President-elect Donald J. Trump for a communications job at the National Security Council, is not the first celebrity to become entangled in accusations of plagiarism or fabrication. Here are seven other high-profile cases. JAMES FREY When Frey first wrote his book “A Million Little Pieces,” he struggled to find a buyer. Publishing houses simply weren’t interested in his novel about an alcohol and drug addict finding his foo..
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  • Majority of police in the US say their jobs have gotten harder

    Majority of police in the US say their jobs have gotten harder
    Police officers in the U.S. think their job has gotten harder of late, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.The public outcry over high-profile police shootings of black Americans, coupled with a recent uptick in fatal shootings of police, has left the majority of officers feeling more concerned for their personal safety and more reluctant to carry out some of their duties, according to the report, titled “Behind the Badge.” “The fact that these incidents have brought so much a..
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  • Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre

    Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre
    “It’s a hard thing to know that someone is going to lose their life, but when you look at the totality of what happened, it’s hard to say that person deserves to live when nine others don’t,” Mr. Graham said at a news conference. “How do you justify saving one life when you took nine, and in such a brutal fashion?” The Rev. Anthony B. Thompson, the widower of another victim, Myra Thompson, said in an interview on Tuesday that while he remained “in awe” at how much Mr. Roof enjoyed doing what he..
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  • Bernard Goldberg: How should the media handle Trump's untruths?

    Bernard Goldberg: How should the media handle Trump's untruths?
    There's a question journalists have been wrestling with ever since they realized that Donald Trump was more than a flash in the pan: Should they call him a liar, and his statements lies, when he says things that are clearly untrue? When he said that he ...
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  • Missing Ohio girl found dead in restaurant, parents charged

    Missing Ohio girl found dead in restaurant, parents charged
    NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Police have charged the parents of a missing 5-year-old Ohio girl after the child's body was found in the family's restaurant. Jackson Township Police say the body of Ashley Zhao was found hidden at Ang's Asian Cuisine in North Canton on Tuesday. Your current subscription does not provide access to this content. Please click the button below to manage your account. Subscribe Thank ..
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  • Los Angeles college reportedly pays hackers $28G ransom

    Los Angeles college reportedly pays hackers $28G ransom
    A Los Angeles college reportedly paid hackers a $28,000 ransom after a cyberattack kept students and faculty locked out of their accounts. The Valley Star, the Los Angeles Valley College school newspaper, reported Friday that hackers locked students and staff out of files, emails and messaging systems and threatened to delete everything if the ransom wasn’t paid within a week. The school eventually paid the fee in bitcoins after it determined that was the cheaper alternative than to remove the ..
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  • Dairy Queen closes Illinois restaurant after owner uses slur during argument with customer

    Dairy Queen closes Illinois restaurant after owner uses slur during argument with customer
    A Dairy Queen franchise owner in Zion, Ill. has lost at least one store location after police say he used racial slurs in an angry confrontation with a customer. James “Jim” Crichton allegedly used the n-word following a disputre with 21-year-old Deianeira Ford and her children on Jan.4 over a food order that was allegedly incomplete.  According to the police report, Ford went inside the store after a mixed-up food order was handed to her at the drive-thru. She says she first asked the owner to..
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  • Federal Judge Who Pushed Rights of Prisoners, Gays Retiring

    Federal Judge Who Pushed Rights of Prisoners, Gays Retiring
    A federal judge who lost his job as a Justice Department attorney after loaning his car to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and then pushed for gay rights, police reform and health care for prisoners during his time on the bench is retiring. More than five decades ago, Thelton Henderson became the first African-American attorney in the U.S. Justice Department's civil rights division — a position that brought him close to King and other civil rights leaders. Henderson later went into private ..
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  • What Obama's address has in common with memorable farewells from past presidents

    What Obama's address has in common with memorable farewells from past presidents
    President Obama delivered his farewell address to the nation at McCormick Place in Chicago on Tuesday. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post) With President Obama's final speech to the nation Tuesday night in Chicago, he faced a unique challenge unlike any modern president that came before him: How to give the milestone farewell address, one that typically touts a president's key achievements and attempts to define his legacy before he leaves office, just as his signature legislative achie..
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  • Hillary Clinton warns of 'rising tide of authoritarianism'

    Hillary Clinton warns of 'rising tide of authoritarianism'
    Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talk at a reception celebrating the completion of the U.S. Diplomacy Center Pavilion. (Sait Serkan Gurbuz/AP). BY Nicole Hensley. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Wednesday, January ...
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