Dennis Kucinich Signs as Fox News Contributor
Date: 16 January 2013
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
The former Democratic congressman from Ohio will make his first appearance as a contributor on the channel’s highest-rated program, “The O’Reilly Factor,” on Thursday night.
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News and ‘News Analysis': Navigating Fact and Opinion in The Times
Date: 17 January 2013
By Amanda Christy Brown and Katherine Schulten
Amanda Brown
How do we distinguish fact from opinion in The Times, and in other news reports? In this lesson, students learn how news and opinion articles are labeled for clarity, then examine articles and opinion pieces on the sentence level.
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‘Reporting’ the News for Adult Swim
Date: 17 January 2013
By Jeremy Egner
Jeremy Egner
“Newsreaders,” an occasional segment of Adult Swim’s “Childrens Hospital,” with Mather Zickel as the fake reporter, has been spun off into its own 15-minute time slot.
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Irish Hostage Is ‘Safe and Free’ in Algeria, but Britons Are Told to Brace for Bad News
Date: 17 January 2013
By Christine Hauser and Robert Mackey
Christine Hauser
An Algerian military raid on a gas facility where Islamist militants were holding dozens of hostages, freed an Irish citizen on Thursday, but at least one Briton was killed.
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Kids Draw the News: Draw the School Bus Strike
Date: 16 January 2013
By The New York Times
Calling young artists: Submit your drawings of the school bus strike for a special edition of Kids Draw the News.
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Legislature Restricts Access to Gun Permit Data
Date: 16 January 2013
By Christine Haughney
Christine Haughney
The New York law requires that, for the next 120 days, no information about gun permit holders in a new statewide registration database is made available publicly.
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Wheelies: The Booming Business Edition
Date: 17 January 2013
By The New York Times
General Motors is planning to spend about $1.5 billion to expand its operations in North America this year.
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A Popularity Present for Michelle Obama
Date: 17 January 2013
By Dalia Sussman
Dalia Sussman
The latest poll by The Times and CBS News shows few people hold a negative view of President Obama’s spouse.
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Morsi Says His Slurs of Jews Were Taken Out of Context
Date: 16 January 2013
By David D. Kirkpatrick
David
President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt, responding for the first time to criticism of newly surfaced videos, said through a spokesman that his ire was directed at “the Israeli aggression in Gaza,” not at Jews.
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White House Denounces Web Video by N.R.A.
Date: 16 January 2013
By Michael D. Shear
Michael
A Web video published by the gun rights group suggested that the president was an “elitist” because his two daughters have protection while he opposes posting armed guards at schools.
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