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WASHINGTON — Adrian Parsons started off his new year with some coconut water and broth.
Parsons and three other Occupy DC demonstrators stopped eating on Dec. 8, vowing not to consume anything other than water and vitamins until D.C. had been granted budgetary and legislative autonomy and full voting rights. Eleven days in, only Parsons was the still fasting. He made it nearly two weeks longer.
Just before 6 p.m. on Sunday, Parsons posted to Facebook that he was planning to end the strike. The broth, he said in a phone interview late Sunday night, “tastes like liquid chicken,” and he was so taken with the coconut water — mixed with a little honey — that he felt as if he could “smell the flowers the bees made the honey from.”
NEW YORK — Authorities say a college student from China was arrested trying to carry a combination stun gun and flashlight onto a plane in New York City.
Sihui “Hannah” Xie said by phone Sunday that she pleaded not guilty and believes her weapons-possession case is on track to be resolved with a fine. Court records aren’t immediately available.
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OAKLAND, Calif. — All-Star pitcher Gio Gonzalez said Thursday the Oakland Athletics have agreed to trade him to the Washington Nationals, and the deal is nearly finished.
“It’s 99 percent done,” Gonzalez said in a phone interview. “It’s pending a physical and I’m just waiting to hear from my agent.”
LONDON — CNN star Piers Morgan may be known to Americans as an empathetic English interviewer, but it’s his past at the heart of Britain’s troubled tabloid newspaper world that is being trotted out before the cameras this week.
The often colorful and sometimes controversial story of Morgan’s rise to the top will be revisited Tuesday, when the former editor appears by videolink at a judge-led inquiry into the ethics and practices of Britain’s scandal-tarred press.
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Making a call on a possible violation has always been at the heart of Pete Blasidell’s passion for being a top-echelon rules official.
So I love it when Peggy Noonan writes columns like this sweet and vicious contemplation of Newt Gingrich. We learn that Gingrich is detested most by those who worked with him—a powerful list of Republicans who are now “burning up the phone lines in Washington” to protest his recent surgelet—and that while there are two ways to view Gingrich, he is, in the end, his own greatest foe: “a human hand grenade who walks around with his hand on the pin, saying, ‘Watch this!’”
Noonan is an influential conservative, of course, a former Reagan scribe who is the closest thing the Wall Street Journal has to Maureen Dowd—a zeitgeist-chasing free-associater who gets some big things right, even if annoyance is the cost of admission. So it’s striking to watch Noonan tick off Gingrich’s accomplishments in the voice of a long-lost underminey friend:
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LONDON — The total number of people whose phones were hacked by journalists at the News of the World tabloid is around 800, British police said Saturday.
Scotland Yard said investigators have spoken with 2,037 people, of whom “in the region of 803 are victims” whose names appeared in notes seized from a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch’s now-shuttered News of the World.
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EL MIRAGE, Ariz. — The 13-year-old girl opened the door of her home in this small city on the edge of Phoenix to encounter a man who said that his car had broken down and he needed to use the phone. Once inside, the man pummeled the teen from behind, knocking her unconscious and sexually assaulting her.
Seven months before, in an apartment two miles away, another 13-year-old girl was fondled in the middle of the night by her mother’s live-in boyfriend. She woke up in her room at least twice a week to find him standing over her, claiming to be looking for her mother’s cell phone.
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CAIRO — An American film maker has told a colleague by phone that she was arrested by Egyptian police while documenting clashes in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
Jehane Nojaim’s producer Karim Amer says she was detained and her camera was confiscated.
He said Wednesday he was separated from her after they both fled from tear gas.
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LONDON — Illegal eavesdropping was widely practiced by Britain’s tabloid journalists, producing stories that were both intrusive and untrue, a lawyer for several phone hacking victims said Wednesday.
Mark Lewis told a U.K. media ethics inquiry that phone hacking was not limited to Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid, which the media mogul shut down earlier this year as outrage grew over the hacking scandal.
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Not that long ago, Steffi Bryson’s big goals were lifeguarding, the breast stroke and surfing. But for the Cal State Long Beach graduate to be named Sunday as a Rhodes Scholar, alumni of whom include Edwin Hubble of telescope fame and future President Clinton?
“I think my parents are a little flabbergasted,” Bryson, 23, said Monday by phone from the family’s home in San Diego’s Carmel Valley. She bursts into a full-bodied laugh. “I ditched so much high school and they thought I was going to drop out and be a professional surfer….I thought that I would be living in Hawaii, surfing every day and listening to a lot of Jack Johnson, and hanging out with a lot of other surfers.”
The fight over a potential recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) took a dark twist over the past week, as anti-Walker activists reported receiving death threats and having items stolen from their properties.
At least two volunteers working for the campaign to recall Walker in the wake of his passage of a controversial anti-collective bargaining law reported getting anonymous, early-morning phone calls last week.
“They said, ‘If you don’t stop circulating recall petitions, we will kill you,’” Tom Peer, a volunteer for the recall campaign, told Wisconsin’s WISC news of a call he received at 2 a.m. Thursday.
LONDON — A British judge is opening a high-level public inquiry Monday into the behavior of the nation’s press, an investigation prompted by revelations and allegations of widespread criminal behavior at a mass-market tabloid.
Justice Brian Leveson’s hearings will first look at the culture, practices and ethics of the press, and will defer any inquiry into alleged criminal activity until the police have finished their investigations of alleged phone hacking, computer hacking and bribery of police officers.
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