Wednesday, December 7, 2016

@12:30, 12/6/16

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U.S.

Gatlinburg Residents Return Home to Wildfire Destruction

The damage to the East Tennessee city left residents searching for courage as they faced uncertain questions about their future.

Tennessee has gathered the injured and is recovering the dead.

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N.Y. / Region

New York City Correction Officer Fatally Shot in Her Car in Brooklyn

Alastasia Bryan was making a call outside her mother’s home when a man who had been waiting in a car nearby approached and fired five shots, the police said.

First reports.
There are no details yet.

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Arts

A Big Week for the Weeknd: ‘Starboy’ Album Is No. 1

Streaming is where the album shines. It had 348,000 album equivalent units: 209,000 in sales and 175 million song streams, Nielsen Music said.

It sounds like bubble gum to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Na4j8AVgA

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N.Y. / Region

District Attorney Asks for Grand Jury in Police Killing of Deborah Danner

Darcel D. Clark, the Bronx district attorney, requested the panel, which typically entails more extensive presentation of evidence, in the shooting of the mentally ill woman.

The district attorney will have a more difficulty getting a refusal to indite.
A bat in confined quarters is not an effective weapon.

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N.Y. / Region

Fearing Loss of U.S. Money Under Trump, New York Begins Urgent Review

The president-elect’s threat to punish “sanctuary cities” has prompted officials to examine just what federal money could be lost.

The money is already as good as gone.

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N.Y. / Region

De Blasio Ends Challenge to Disclosing Emails From ‘Agents of the City’

The about-face applies only to future emails between the administration and unpaid outside advisers; past communications, the subject of a court battle, will not be disclosed.

A sledge hammer can drive a tack.
The result is not pretty.

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Opinion

Fears of Deportation Under the Trump Administration

Readers discuss Donald Trump’s plans to deport illegal immigrants. One urges President Obama to pardon the Dreamers.

The politics of immigration are beyond me.
I.C.E. and Homeland Security are not under effective executive control.


N.Y. / Region

Brooklyn Toddler Injured in Suspected Abuse Has Died

Jaden Jordan, 3, was found unconscious in his home last week, and his mother’s boyfriend has been charged with assault and child endangerment.
Opinion

Fake News Brings a Gunman to Washington

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Mr. Trump’s pick for national security adviser, has been in the habit of spreading pernicious conspiracy theories.
World

A Floating Courthouse Takes the Rule of Law to Brazil’s Frontier

A three-story riverboat braves choppy currents, malarial mosquitoes and the threat of pirates to provide justice on the Amazon.


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