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Pelosi declines to call for Weiner's resignation

While Democrats and Republicans alike are calling for the resignation of New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said she won't make that decision, leaving the choice to Weiner and his constituents, the Associated Press reported.

Assad ignoring Ban Ki-moon's phone calls: U.N.

United Nations Secretary General Ban addresses diplomats at the 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS at the UN General Assembly in New York
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is facing international pressure to end a crackdown on anti-government protestors, is not taking the U.N. chief’s phone calls, the United Nations said on Friday.
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Untaxed cigarettes cause $2 billion loss

There is no need to lay off teachers or firefighters or to close fire houses, as proposed earlier by New York's city council in order to save revenue. The answer lies simply within the lawful collection of tax on 40 million cartons of untaxed cigarettes sold by Indian Reservations, internet, and other illegal sources, which equates to $2 billion dollars in lost revenue per year.
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Blood on Brooklyn's Brighton Beach Boardwalk

A teenage girl was killed and four men wounded at Brooklyn's Brighton Beach boardwalk on Thursday after two men on the beach fired into a crowd of thousands who had flocked to spend a school holiday.
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NOAA Go Google Way, Selects Apps

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected Google Apps as the agency-wide e-mail and collaboration platform for its 25,000 employees, contractors and associates working across the country and around the world.
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Weiner's wife pregnant; Poll shows majority of voters want him to stay in Congress

The wife of Representative Anthony Weiner is pregnant with the couple's first child, according to a New York Times report citing three sources with knowledge of the situation. Weiner's wife had earlier made it clear that she would stand by her husband even after he had admitted to have sent sexually charged material over internet to several women. Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had married Rep. Weiner a year ago.

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