U.S. Filmmaker Held in Venezuela Sought to Show Political Divide, Friends Say

The NYT put four(!) journalists to blow up what should be only a minor story. They never were fans of Chavez or his heir Maduro.
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Has Assad crossed ‘red line’? Graphic video footage emerges claiming to show victims of nerve gas attack in Syria, but doubts cast on evidence of use of chemical weapons

According to experts the presented evidence does not ad up. From a strategic point of view the very limited use of sarin gas is also ludicrous.
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Emails show history of illness in Adam Lanza’s family, mother had worries about gruesome images

Nancy Lanza’s emails, obtained by the Daily News, offer new insight in the family’s medical history. She feared Adam Lanza, who killed 26 in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, would develop the same auto-immune disease that killed his grandfather.
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Four of five Border Patrol drug busts involve US citizens, records show.

The public message that the Border Patrol has trumpeted for much of the last decade, mainly through press releases about its seizures, has emphasized Mexican drug couriers, or mules, as those largely responsible for transporting drugs. This is not true.
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