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Where to begin with all this senseless violence? With the 12-year-old who was bouncing a basketball with his dad in New Jersey, when out of nowhere, he was shot and killed? He gets buried tonight.
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Where to begin with all this senseless violence? With the 12-year-old who was bouncing a basketball with his dad in New Jersey, when out of nowhere, he was shot and killed? He gets buried tonight.
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The pictures and the sound from the kids, especially, are so emotional. Good news - if we can use those words - is that there are NOT 91 or 51 people killed.
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So what really happened in the middle of the night this morning at a house near Hofstra University on Long Island? What we know as I write this is a man broke into a house where three young women were living. He had a gun, and told one of the women to go to the bank and withdraw money. She did, but also called cops. They arrived at the house, shots were fired inside, and the gunman and one of the young women were killed.
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We had some interesting, and at times heated, discussions about whether the potential scandals enveloping the Obama Administration can be described as "Nixonian."
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Back in the day, Americans were aghast at the abuse of power wielded by Richard Nixon and his administration. He had an "enemies list," and those on it (they wore the designation as a badge of honor) were treated to police and FBI surveillance and dossiers, and to audits and scrutiny by the IRS.
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She has used her incredible looks to build quite a career. Now she's using both to make a huge and bold statement. Angelina Jolie going public that she had a double mastectomy because she carried a gene that made it likely she'd get breast and/or ovarian cancer.
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It's been a while since I felt nervous on air. I remember the big times when I was. Three of them stand out.
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The Catholic League calls it "utterly absurd" to still claim that the Catholic Church has a problem with priests abusing kids.
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Ok, so now he says he's a sex addict. Really? Ariel Castro, the man charged with kidnapping and rape after he allegedly held 3 women hostage for 10 years, is being held on $8 million bail.
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My daughter called from college last night, puzzled and quizzing me about what really happened to Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight. We just don't know yet, I said. But it looks like they were confined - tied up or something - otherwise they would have escaped.
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Silly me. Here I was feeling a little compassion for New Jersey Gov. Christie, after the announcement that he had surgery to shrink his stomach so he wouldn't eat so much. Good for him. And good for him for saying he's thinking about his family, to make sure he's around for a while.
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I'm trying hard to remain upbeat about some human's nature, but the dirty politicans on the public payroll who embezzle or take bribes can make it hard to be a cockeyed optimist.
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Do these sex attacks come in waves? It seems as if they do. And right now we seem to be in the middle of a horrible cycle.
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I'm feeling as if this is a profound day for me. It's not sadly profound, is it joyous. It's just - profound.
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So what would you have done if you recognized one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers when the FBI released their pictures just 4 days after the attacks?
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What a fascinating discussion in the past 24 hours about Jason Collins, the veteran NBA center who became the first active pro athlete in a major sport to come out as gay.
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So one pro athlete is kicked out, another comes out. The truth is - who's really surprised by either? And should we be?
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More than 11 years later - what a discovery. Part of a landing gear from one of the hijacked planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11 was found today, wedged between two buildings in Lower Manhattan.
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My dad used to challenge me whenever I posed the "what if" question. Ok, he'd say, "but 'what if' my grandmother had had b***s - she'd have been my grandfather!"
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How much of an impact does social media have on life these days? Consider this within minutes of a bogus Tweet by someone who hacked the Associated Press Twitter account saying the White House had been bombed and Pres. Obama had been hurt, the stock market plunged 130 points.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face the death penalty, according to the federal charges filed today, under seal, in the Boston Marathon Bombing case. No shocker, of course, that they included a weapons of mass destruction charge against the 19-year-old Russian immigrant.
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Can the world have one view of two men, and the reality of who they are be completely different? That's a big question as we cover the ongoing Boston Marathon bombing case. The two Chechen brothers suspected of being the bombers - one's dead as I write this, the other's in the wind as cops say - are smart, sweet, athletic, engaged guys. At least that's the takeaway from the people who knew them who have been interviewed today.
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Has the FBI pinpointed who they think bombed the Boston Marathon? There are indications tonight that they have. No surprise that the abundance of surveillance cameras has yielded a treasure trove of investigative leads. But now that we're three full days past the bombings, finding those people becomes problematic.
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So what the federal agent happened today with the "confirmed" reports that an arrest was "imminent" in the Boston Marathon bombing? Or the reports from some news organizations that an arrest had been made?
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So who did this and why? That's really what matters most in this investigation, right? Was it someone "homegrown" ala Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh? Was it a "lone wolf" foreign-sympathizing terrorist? Was it an organized terrorist plot by, say, Al Qaeda?
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And you say we don't report good news? Tonight in the 2-square-miles that comprise the 44th New York police precinct in the Bronx, something of a celebration.
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Is it disrespectful to refer to a New York City Borough President as a character?
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"My therapist says&.." That's how Anthony Weiner says he now starts many of his sentences. Wait... Anthony Weiner talked publicly?
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It was a cute enough moment, or so I thought. Somebody dressed up as Elmo in Times Square - offering to pose with my toddler, who oh-by-the-way was in love with Elmo.
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There's no indication that Margaret Thatcher ever met Annette Funicello. But these two women are meeting, so to speak, in death. Each died today, and each played in their own ways ground-breaking roles.
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Perception is reality, right? So what's the perception now at Rutgers University, now that the President - whose own scalp is being called for by dozens of his faculty - has forced out the Athletic Director, who resigned today over that shocking video of the (now-fired) head basketball coach attacking his players?
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A leave of presence. That's what Roger Ebert said he was taking on Tuesday - as cancer reared again inside him. It means, he said, "I am not going away. My intent is to continue to write selected reviews but to leave the rest to a talented team of writers handpicked and greatly admired by me."
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It was never really a question of if; it was always a question of when.
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Just when you thought it was safe to wade calmly and peacefully into the issue of gun control without having verbal guns and loudmouths coming out ablazin' - watch out!
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Back from vacation - and that's no April fools. All of it spent with family - and what's better than that? Nothing, that's what!
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When I was a teenager, March became a benchmark month for me, because March 2 was my Bar Mitzvah.
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What's the old saw about the more things change the more they stay the same.
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Despite the blather about New York being America's safest big city and all, the truth is that there are all sorts of crimes in America's biggest city - huge numbers and, sometimes, hugely grotesque. No shortage of either. And tonight we're following one of them. It is difficult to even write about this. As a parent, I feel my blood boil.
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If it were up to the kids at Calhoun High School in Merrick, Long Island, cancer wouldn't have a chance.
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So I'm trying to wrap my head around the proposed assault weapons ban, which today was dropped from the Senate's gun control legislation package.
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So you want irony? Oh we have irony- although I suspect many will call it hypocrisy.
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Bruno the Rottweiler is the only surviving animal at the Nassau Co. SPCA emergency shelter in Mineola still without a home.
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A neighborhood on edge. There's that's how to describe tonight the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn.
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What a challenge Pope number 266 faces - a Catholic Church with 1.2 billion members worldwide, but with numbers dropping in some countries, and with so many challenges, from credibility to inequality in the church, from scandal to dealing with a world that is so filled with hunger and poverty and in need of the traditional work that so many Catholic priests and nuns in the field have historically done.
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He was just 16 and he had, like way too many young teenagers of color in New York City, run-ins with the law before. We don't know if he was still in school, but we know that more than one out of two African American boys in New York State do not graduate high school.
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