Tuesday, March 29, 2016

NFL Demands Retraction From New York Times and other top stories.

  • NFL Demands Retraction From New York Times

    The NFL is still all worked up about that New York Times story that revealed the league’s initial studies on the link between football and CTE to have been based on bunk data. They’re so worked up, in fact, that the league’s lawyers sent a letter to the Times, demanding retraction while making vague threats of legal action. You can read the full letter here, but here’s the very flimsy argument. On behalf of the National Football League (“NFL” or “League”), and following up on our letter to you ..
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  • Temple of Baal in New York City : snopes.com

    Temple of Baal in New York City : snopes.com
    Claim: The Temple of Baal is being rebuilt in New York and London as an operable house of worship, with more such temples to follow. Mostly False WHAT'S TRUE: Replicas of the arch from Syria's Temple of Baal will be erected in London and New York City for World Heritage Week in April 2016. WHAT'S FALSE: The structures will be full, permanent and operational houses of worship. Example: [Collected via Twitter, March 2016] .@QUIRKIEBIRD_ @BluebellBw Oh no, not Leicester Square as well.... I don'..
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  • The best of the rest at the 2016 New York International Auto Show

    The best of the rest at the 2016 New York International Auto Show
    Come along with us as we explore this year's New York International Auto Show—and don't miss Audi's spectacular trolling of its German rivals.Jennifer Hahn This year's New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) is currently underway at the Jacob H. Javits Center in Manhattan, and in recent years New York has become an increasingly important event for the auto industry. NYIAS is almost at the point of rivaling Detroit as the premiere US show. We spent a couple of days pounding the floors to find o..
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  • New York Today: The Tourist in You

    New York Today: The Tourist in You
    Photo The view from the top. Credit Elizabeth D. Herman for The New York Times Updated, 12:07 p.m.Good morning on this windy Tuesday.Spring is now in full swing — and here come the tourists.A record number of visitors are expected in New York this year — nearly 60 million — and they’re predicted to generate about $60 billion for the city’s economy, supporting nearly 360,000 jobs.So embrace it — Mayor Bill de Blasio has, finally — and you may even learn a thing or two.We..
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  • With the New York Presidential Primary, the Circus Is Coming Home

    With the New York Presidential Primary, the Circus Is Coming Home
    He has for decades regarded himself as an unrivaled titan in his hometown, gorging at the only-in-New-York intersection of real estate, media and celebrity-for-its-own-sake. His name has appeared on the facades of New York’s buildings, at the top of its V.I.P. lists and in the gossip pages whose stewards he had on speed dial.There was no anonymous “source close to Trump,” reporters across town came to know, quite so availing as The Donald himself.Yet in recent months, to the dismay of a great m..
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  • New York mulls two-tier minimum wage in push for $15/hour

    New York mulls two-tier minimum wage in push for $15/hour
    NEW YORK Officials negotiating New York's budget are considering capping the minimum wage in less affluent regions so they can raise it to $15 per hour in wealthier areas like New York City, according to top-ranking lawmakers.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has made a $15 state-wide hourly minimum wage a priority and is trying to push it through with the state's $145 billion fiscal spending plan, which is due at the start of the state's fiscal year on April 1.While Democrats, who c..
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  • Watch: Rat Crawls Up Sleeping Subway Rider's Neck

    Watch: Rat Crawls Up Sleeping Subway Rider's Neck
    Here’s another reason to not sleep on the subway. Video captured aboard a 7 train in Manhattan shows a rat crawl up an apparently clueless, sleeping man. When the rodent makes his way to the man’s neck, he wakes up and shrieks in horror, the video shows. Rider Antony Lin, 31, shot the video in the last car of the 7 train as it pulled out of the 34th Street - Hudson Yards station about 3 a.m. Sunday, he told NBC 4 New York. “I had my phone ready to film the rat since it was huge and the fact tha..
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  • New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Boycotts North Carolina over ...

    New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Boycotts North Carolina over ...
    By Yana Paskova/Getty Images.“We will not stand idly by as misguided legislation replicates the discrimination of the past.”The battle over so-called “religious freedom” legislation, which conservatives say protects religious liberty and critics argue sanctions anti-L.G.B.T. discrimination, didn’t end with the battle over Indiana’s and Arkansas’s controversial bills last year. On Monday, Georgia governor Nathan Deal vetoed a religious freedom bill after a number of companies—including major Holl..
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  • Wall St. Gains After Yellen Remarks

    Wall St. Gains After Yellen Remarks
    Stocks closed at their highest level of the year on Tuesday as investors appeared to welcome the Federal Reserve’s signal that it would move slowly to raise interest rates.Big names including Apple and Microsoft led technology stocks as the market made its biggest gain in two weeks.Stocks rose after the Fed’s chairwoman, Janet L. Yellen, confirmed that the Fed was not in a hurry to raise interest rates. The Fed made similar points just two weeks ago, but since then some members of its decision-..
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  • Bernie and Hillary prep for New York clash

    Bernie and Hillary prep for New York clash
    In the 2014 New York Democratic primary for governor, an unknown progressive academic with an odd name staged an implausible challenge to the powerful sitting governor, Andrew Cuomo. Armed with an anti-fracking, anti-corruption screed, Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout managed to capture an impressive one-third of the vote — and even won some regions by large margins. Now, in advance of New York’s April 19 presidential primary, operatives for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders a..
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