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U.S. Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) answers a question during a news conference after the U.S. House of Representatives censured him for ethics violations, on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 2, 2010

Rangel Supports Weiner

Congressman Charles B. Rangel, the Harlem representative whose shoddy disclosure perils lead a House ethics committee to investigate his conduct emerged as an unlikely ally for his colleague Rep. Anthony Weiner.
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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.
U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner speaks to the media in New York

Congress circulates 'sexting' primer

While Representative Anthony Weiner continues to refuse resigning his post, despite being entangled in scandal because of sexually explicit text messages he said he exchanged with women over the past three years, the research side of Congress has circulated a report on some of the detriments of text messaging, including a primer on sexting, the New York Times reported.

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