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• Gangs Rat Selves Out With Tweets of Blammers, Biscuits and Shellz
• Oversight board needed for Nassau County jail: NY judge
• Terror Group Recruits From Pakistan's 'Best and Brightest'
• Bradley Manning: ‘New York Times’ Endorsed Source, or Traitor?
• New Hillary Clinton memoir likely to fuel 2016 speculation
• Ancient site unearthed in Iraqi home of Abraham
• 10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos
• Hillary Clinton Book to Hit Shelves in 2014
• Renowned Human Rights And Civil Liberties Pioneer Congressman John Lewis To Address Rensselaer Graduates At 207th Commencement
• OPEC happy with level of oil output ceiling
• Kurdish party denies Ocalan asked PKK rebels to leave unarmed

Gangs Rat Selves Out With Tweets of Blammers, Biscuits and Shellz Posted: 04 Apr 2013 03:06 PM PDT Bragging on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube Help NYPD Bust 63 Gang Members

Oversight board needed for Nassau County jail: NY judge Posted: 04 Apr 2013 02:33 PM PDT By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge has ordered suburban Nassau County to appoint an independent panel to oversee its jail, following decades of complaints about conditions at the facility. In a ruling released on Wednesday, Acting Supreme Court Justice James McCormack gave County Executive Edward Mangano 90 days to make nominations to fill all seven seats on the Nassau County Correctional Board of Visitors, which was created in 1990 to monitor the jail. Conditions at the Nassau County Correctional Center have prompted frequent complaints for several decades, McCormack wrote. ...

Terror Group Recruits From Pakistan's 'Best and Brightest' Posted: 04 Apr 2013 11:58 AM PDT Imagine a terrorist group that recruits tens of thousands of young men from the same neighborhoods and social networks as the Pakistani military. A group whose well-educated recruits defy the idea that poverty and ignorance breed extremism. A group whose fighters include relatives of a politician, a senior Army officer and a director of Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission.

Bradley Manning: ‘New York Times’ Endorsed Source, or Traitor? Posted: 04 Apr 2013 11:25 AM PDT Last month Private First Class Bradley Manning pled guilty to charges that could land him 20 years in prison for his role in releasing thousands of classified documents obtained and published by WikiLeaks.

New Hillary Clinton memoir likely to fuel 2016 speculation Posted: 04 Apr 2013 09:45 AM PDT By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton, already the front-runner in the minds of many Democrats for the 2016 U.S. presidential election, is writing a memoir about world affairs and her time as secretary of state that will likely fuel more speculation about her political future. The presidential prospects of Clinton, the wife of former President Bill Clinton, are a subject of feverish speculation in Washington and elsewhere as Democrats look to see over the horizon past President Barack Obama. ...

Ancient site unearthed in Iraqi home of Abraham Posted: 04 Apr 2013 09:33 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — British archaeologists said Thursday they have unearthed a sprawling complex near the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq, home of the biblical Abraham.

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos Posted: 04 Apr 2013 09:26 AM PDT Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

Hillary Clinton Book to Hit Shelves in 2014 Posted: 04 Apr 2013 07:36 AM PDT Hillary Clinton has inked a book deal with Simon & Schuster to write a wide-ranging book that the publisher says will cover "dramatic moments" from her tenure as secretary of state, "frame her thoughts about the recent history of U.S. foreign policy and the urgent, ongoing...

Renowned Human Rights And Civil Liberties Pioneer Congressman John Lewis To Address Rensselaer Graduates At 207th Commencement Posted: 04 Apr 2013 06:30 AM PDT Retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, Xerox Chairman and CEO Ursula M. Burns, and Microsoft and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pioneer Patty Stonesifer Also Will Receive Honorary Degrees May 25TROY, N.Y., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA) - one of the nation's most dedicated and courageous civil rights leaders - will address Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduates at the 207th Commencement May 25, 2013. ...

OPEC happy with level of oil output ceiling Posted: 04 Apr 2013 06:26 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - OPEC is happy with the producer group's official oil output ceiling of 30 million barrels per day, its secretary general Abdullah al-Badri said on Thursday, ahead of an OPEC meeting next month to set output policy. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is scheduled to meet on May 31 in Vienna to review its output policy for the second half of the year. Badri also said the 12-member group would not address the issue of a production allocation for Iraq until 2014. Iraq has for many years been exempt from OPEC output agreements.

Kurdish party denies Ocalan asked PKK rebels to leave unarmed Posted: 04 Apr 2013 05:36 AM PDT By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's main pro-Kurdish political party denied on Thursday media reports that jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan had told his fighters to leave the country without their weapons under a peace plan. A weapons-free withdrawal by Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), as sought by the government, would be seen as a significant step towards ending a conflict which has dragged on for three decades and killed more than 40,000 people. ...

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