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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says that if the economy keeps improving, the Fed will take "further measured steps" to reduce the support it’s providing through monthly bond purchases.
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Works, including some by Monet, Picasso and Renoir, were removed from the home of Cornelius Gurlitt in Salzburg, Austria, to ensure their safety.
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The veteran sports broadcaster has been struggling with an eye infection since the beginning of the Games.
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Bacon spending reaches all-time high…
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Remember
the Justin Bieber egg throwing scandal? You know, the crime he
allegedly committed before he was arrested for DUI in Miami, charged with assault in Toronto, and detained for weed in New Jersey? Well, now the L.A. County Sheriff’s
Department is suggesting that prosecutors charge Bieber with a felony for the attack.
"I
went to the D.A.’s Office today with the paperwork, and I want a
felony," Lt. Dave Thompson told TMZ. "Of course I want a
felony."
The
egg throwing, which took place last month, allegedly caused $20,000
in damage to Bieber’s neighbor’s home. Here’s video of the egg
attack, from TMZ.
[Image via AP]
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Jay Leno’s final telecast hosting “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno†has delivered the show’s highest overnight rating in nearly five years, since March 2009.
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Filibuster reform has taken away the tool Republicans used to hold up President Obama’s nomines for non-lifetime posts. The party has adapted to this reality with a tactic much appreciated by journalists: public shaming. Today’s example is the confirmation hearing of Noah Bryson Mamet, who’s up for ambassador to Argentina and who bundled at least $500,000 for the Obama campaign, according to the Center for Public Integrity. He has not, as Marco Rubio found during questioning, been to Argentina.
Obviously, a diplomatic posting in Buenos Aires is an enviable gig, probably one of the few dozen best ambassador gigs in the world. But this is a hell of a time to take it. Argentina, like a lot of next-wave developing nations, failed to build the sort of foreign currency reserve that would have sheltered it from the current slump. (Also in this category: South Africa, Turkey, Venezuela.) Delicate times, probably opportune times for a diplomat with years logged in South America.
Mamet’s confirmation didn’t go as poorly as the one for George James Tsunis, nominated for a posting in Oslo, then accidentally too ready to admit he didn’t know basic facts about Norway.* He may not become like Nicole Avant, an Obama 2008 finance chair for Southern California who went to the Bahamas and was absent from the embassy about 40 percent of the time.
*Correction, Feb. 7, 2014: This post originally misspelled George James Tsunis’ last name.
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He’s got a tube steak arsenal.
The Post introduces us to a mysterious food -art proprietor named Ehab Elsayed, who allegedly sold thousands of hot dogs under many noms de saucisse over the last decade, all while accruing more than 400 summonses and some $330,000 in fines. The paper reports that his violations stem from health-code infractions to vending without a license to selling hot dogs on restricted streets. Elsayed’s license was revoked four times, the Post says, and he was even brought up on felony forgery and "other charges" during a 2012 brush with the law that seemed to signal that his hot dog days were over.
That ended, strangely enough, with Manhattan Supreme Court reducing the charges and sealing his case records; now there’s a warrant out for his arrest and he’s nowhere to be found. At this point the sauerkraut trail goes cold, and we’d like to imagine that the word on the street is that Elsayed’s gone soft — with soft pretzels.
You dirty dog! Hunt on for renegade food vendor [New York Post]
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Filed Under: aluminum foiled again, crime, hot dogs
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The latest films focusing on prosecutorial overreach, including ‘Internet’s Own Boy’ and ‘Dinosaur 13,’ are redefining the U.S. documentary.
It was after a late screening and the group of several hundred was aggrieved, its moral hackles raised.
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Throwing back a cold one can be a costly affair—especially if you’re living off the minimum wage in a country like Georgia or Bangladesh. How do we know that? Because we made a Beer Index.
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