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Friday, September 26, 2014

Cheat Sheet - Can This SVU Crime Fighter Save the NFL?

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September 26, 2014
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After the Ray Rice abuse scandal, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's inept response, Lisa Friel has been drafted to clean up the mess. The attorney and consultant, who's had a stellar career with some of the nation's top prosecutors, knows the game inside and out, as Lloyd Grove reveals.
IT'S ON
The British Parliament voted Friday, by 524 to 43, in favor of a government plan to join U.S. and Arab air forces in bombing ISIS militants in Iraq. The motion also condemned the "barbaric acts" by ISIS, such as the beheading of British nationals, and pointed to the request for military assistance from Iraq as the legal basis for action. It does not, however, authorize action in Syria. The win for Prime Minister David Cameron comes a year after the House of Commons rejected a proposal to authorize force in Syria after Bashar al-Assad's regime used chemical weapons. One Labour member of Parliament, Rushanara Ali, resigned her senior party role in protest at the airstrikes.
TRAGEDY
A woman who was killed in a rampage at an Oklahoma City food-processing facility, Colleen Hufford, 54, was beheaded, law-enforcement officials say. No further details about her death have been released, and neither has the name of a second woman who was also injured. The man who was shot, Alton Noel, 30, was hit by an off-duty Oklahoma County deputy employed by the company. He is accused of stabbing the two women.
CONTAGION
Nancy Powell helped stop a lethal avian influenza outbreak, and now she's going to fight the world's deadliest virus: Ebola. The former U.S. ambassador to India has been selected by Washington to coordinate the attack on Ebola. Before heading to West Africa, she speaks to Abby Haglage about how she plans to stop the epidemic from reaching millions.
PHEW

The U.S. economy grew at a revised 4.6 percent annualized rate in the second quarter of 2014, the Commerce Department announced Friday. That is up from the previous estimate of 4.2 percent. The increase follows a 2.1 percent decline in the first quarter of the year, which economists are now viewing as an aberration. The spring growth rate is the highest since the final quarter of 2011. The increase was largely triggered by increased corporate spending on equipment and properties, as well as investments in nonresidential properties.


ANNOYING
Arson Shuts Down Chicago FAA Center
Grounds hundreds of flights.
MIND BLOWN
Water on Earth Is Older Than the Sun
More than 4.5 billion years old.
COME AGAIN?
Professor: Ebola Made by Pentagon
Publishes article in major Liberian paper.
HIDE AND SEEK
Most Illegal Immigrants Disappear
Despite administration claims they face deportation.
TAKING A BITE
Apple: Bending iPhone an Overblown Myth
"Extremely rare."

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