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• New York Today: Honoring Veterans - The New York Times

  

  PhotoSeveral members of the Fire Department bearing flags in last year's parade.CreditChang W. Lee/The New York TimesUpdated 8:57 a.m.Good morning on this blustery Wednesday.Today isVeterans Day.New York hosts the country’s largesttribute to our nation’s veterans, calledAmerica’s Parade, which streams up Fifth Avenue with more than 20,000 participants.This year, Google is organizing a virtual march for veterans unable to make it to the parade because of disabilities, age or distance.Google will ..

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• Prosecutors Allege Persistent Heating Oil Fraud in New York City - The New York Times

  

  PhotoThree people who were indicted in an oil fraud scheme were escorted by the police into a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday.CreditBryan R. Smith for The New York TimesIn a city of glittering office towers and computerized transactions, of records kept in the cloud and fuels that send less soot into the sky, the authorities say old-fashioned corruption of the most brazen kind still poisons theheating oil industry.Drivers carry guns to guard their cash. Hidden paper records document fraudulent de..

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• Mixed Night in 'Strange' Christie's Contemporary and Postwar Sale

  

  With Calder mobiles selling for three times their estimates and a Warhol “Flowers” painting left unsold, Tuesday night’s auction of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s New York only deepened uncertainty about the art market.“It was a strange sale,” said the Los Angeles collector Eli Broad. “Very mixed.”Tuesday’s auction came on the heels of Christie’s $491.4 million “Artist’s Muse” sale of cherry-picked works from the last 100 years. The total for Tuesday was $331.8 million from 66 lots, ..

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• Prosecutors Announce More Charges in Hacking of JPMorgan Chase

  

  Continue reading the main storyVideoU.S. Unseals Indictment in Hacking CasePreet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced charges in the the largest hacking case ever uncovered.By REUTERS onPublish DateNovember 10, 2015.Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.Watch in Times Video »Billing it as the largest hacking case ever uncovered, federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Tuesday described a global, multiyear scheme to steal information on 100 million custom..

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• European Union Moves to Label Products From Israeli Settlements

  

  PhotoWine being prepared for export at Shiloh Wineries, based in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, this month.CreditBaz Ratner/ReutersLONDON — TheEuropean Unionpushed ahead on Wednesday withrules for labeling consumer goodsfrom Jewish-owned businesses and farms in the land Israel captured during the 1967 war, creating new strains in relations between Europe and Israel.European officials played down the move, sayingthe guidelinesmerely clarified existing rules, but Israeli leaders condemned it ..

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• Cuomo to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 for All New York State Employees - The New York Times

  

  PhotoGov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a plan on Tuesday to raise the minimum wage to $15 for all state workers.CreditSam Hodgson for The New York TimesALBANY — Gov.Andrew M. Cuomoannounced on Tuesday that he would unilaterally establish a $15 minimum wage for all state workers, making New York the first state to set such a high wage for its public employees.The increase will place the pay of New York’s state employees far ahead of the current minimum wage in other states, and positions Mr. Cuomo ..

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• Daily fantasy sports are banned in New York - Nov

  

  Daily fantasy sports are illegal gambling, New York State's top cop said on Tuesday, demanding that the two largest operators stop taking bets in the state.New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued cease and desist orders to DraftKings and FanDuel.He told the companies to quit accepting bets from New York residents, joining a similar move byNevadalast month."FanDuel DFS contests are neither harmless nor victimless," the letter reads. "Daily Fantasy Sports are creating the same public he..

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• In Republican Debate, Candidates Battle Sharply on Immigration

  

  PhotoThe lineup for Tuesday night’s Republican debate, in Milwaukee. Candidates promoted tax proposals, lamented what they called intrusive business regulations and delved into monetary policy.CreditMichael Appleton for The New York TimesMILWAUKEE — After weeks of personal sniping, the Republican presidential candidates clashed sharply over immigration and other policies in theirdebatehere on Tuesday, with Gov.John Kasichof Ohio and former Gov.Jeb Bushof Florida trying to energize their campaign..

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• 'Person of interest' named in deadly New York City shooting | Fox News

  

  Vincent Arcona.(New York Police Dept)Police named a "person of interest" in a deadly shooting in New York's Midtown Manhattan Monday: 27-year-old Vincent Arcona.They say he is wanted for questioning, but have not labeled him a suspect. They add that his last known address was in nearby Medford.Investigators say the gunman shot three men near Penn Station after an argument inside a  McDonald's.The three victims, all men in their 40s, were drinking coffee when a heavy-set man in a black hooded swe..

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• University of Missouri Professor Who Confronted Photographer...

  

  PhotoA forum on graduate rights on the University of Missouri's campus in Columbia, Mo., on Tuesday.CreditDaniel Brenner for The New York TimesAfter aUniversity of Missouriprofessor was seen on video calling for “some muscle” to remove a journalist from a public demonstration, the professor cut her ties to the university’s journalism school on Tuesday as protest organizers — and the professor herself — joined college officials in stating that journalists had a right to be present.The professor, ..

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