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Stephanie Keith/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Nancy Dubuc has seen her fair share of media pitches. Dubuc worked for A&E Networks for 19 years, with the last six of those years as president and CEO, before recently becoming CEO of Vice Media in the fall of 2018. With years of experience creating award-winning programming and making …

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STR/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — For the very first time, alleged Russian agent Maria Butina can be heard telling her side of the story. In a series of recorded conversations with journalist James Bamford, whose several-thousand-word defense of Butina titled “The Spy Who Wasn’t” appears in this month’s issue of The New Republic, the 30-year-old Russian gun-rights …

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Manjurul/iStock(LONDON) — The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has claimed the lives of nearly 100 children. At least 97 children, 65 of whom were younger than 5 years old, have died from Ebola virus disease in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo since the outbreak was declared there Aug. 1, according to a …

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ABC News(NEW YORK) — More than 14 inches of snow fell the last few days in Seattle, marking the snowiest February in the city’s history as powder also fell in Portland, Oregon, and throughout the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Snow and ice fell in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with some regions seeing 8 inches. Even Hawaii …

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Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office(NEW YORK) — Police arrested three men who allegedly tried to extort $80,000 from an elderly man in a so-called grandparents scam. The suspects, identified as Leevansky Lambert and Eghosasere Auboraye, of Florida, and Keon Smith, of Maryland, were arrested on Saturday for allegedly targeting elderly people in what authorities are …

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Miller County, Missouri Sheriff’s Office(COLUMBIA, Mo.) — Police charged a jail nurse in Missouri with murder after she allegedly poisoned her husband and tried to cover it up by setting their home on fire — all in a bid to marry an inmate. Amy Murray was arrested on Thursday in connection with the December death …

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U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Tyler Diffie/Released(WASHINGTON) — Two U.S. Navy ships sailed within 12 miles of a disputed artificial island — claimed by China — in the South China Sea early Monday, according to a U.S. Navy statement. The move is sure to once again draw criticism from China, which …

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aijohn784/iStock(NASHVILLE, Tenn) — Nashville police have arrested five minors in connection with the death of a 24-year-old musician who was shot during a robbery at his home. Kyle Yorlets, a member of the rock band Carverton, was shot outside his Nashville home Thursday and was found inside by one of his housemates around 3 p.m., …

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KABC(FULLERTON, Cali.) —  A 22-year-old California man has been charged with felony DUI after he allegedly mowed down nine pedestrians early Sunday morning. Christopher Solis allegedly struck and injured the victims with his red Toyota Tacoma in downtown Fullerton Sunday around 1:48 a.m., according to a statement from the Fullerton Police Department. Solis, of Anaheim, …

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Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images(DENVER) — Denver Public Schools teachers are planning to strike Monday after negotiations over a compensation package that allowed teachers to earn additional income failed. Negotiations between the Denver Classroom Teachers Association and the Denver Public Schools District for the Professional Compensation System for Teachers, implemented in 1999, …

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