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Journo turned tech PR pro; still a storyteller. @Fleishman. Alums: Comms Director @NYCCouncil, reporter @Newsweek @NYDailyNews
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Media giant Sinclair hired reporter from Russian propaganda outlet RT who produced "must-run" "De...

Media giant Sinclair hired reporter from Russian propaganda outlet RT who produced "must-run" "De...

Newsweek — The United States' largest owner of television stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group, mandated that its outlets run a segment on the so-called deep state that was produced by a former reporter for the Russian propaganda outlet RT, according to a new report.
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How big is the NRA? Gun group's membership might not be as powerful as it says

How big is the NRA? Gun group's membership might not be as powerful as it says

Newsweek — Bill Ware, like a lot of children growing up in North Carolina in the 1960s, bonded with his father while shooting a rifle. He was 7 or 8 years old when his father introduced him to firearms. "He thought-many men of that era thought-What the hell am I gonna do with this kid?
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What's a 'badge factory'? How Trump donor Robert Mercer and others can carry concealed firearms a...

What's a 'badge factory'? How Trump donor Robert Mercer and others can carry concealed firearms a...

Newsweek — Billionaire Trump supporter Robert Mercer may have spent years moonlighting as a part-time cop more than 2,000 miles from his home so he could carry a concealed firearm anywhere in the country, according to a new report.
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Gunmakers should've feared the "Trump slump," but the NRA warned against President Hillary Clinto...

Gunmakers should've feared the "Trump slump," but the NRA warned against President Hillary Clinto...

Newsweek — The National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers railed against Hillary Clinton in 2016, but perhaps they should have been more concerned about Donald Trump. Gun sales dropped in 2017 as fears that the government would "come for your guns" waned. The decline has been dubbed the "Trump slump" and led to Remington Outdoor Co.
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Omnibus spending bill would fund gun control background checks, allow the CDC to study gun violen...

Omnibus spending bill would fund gun control background checks, allow the CDC to study gun violen...

Newsweek — The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill unveiled Wednesday would incentivize increased background checks and stipulates the Center for Disease Control and Prevention can research gun violence-something it hasn't done for more than two decades. A provision in the 2,232-page bill would tweak what's known as the "Dickey Amendment," which became a de facto ban on the CDC from studying gun violence.
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More children have been killed by guns since Sandy Hook than U.S. soldiers in combat since 9/11

More children have been killed by guns since Sandy Hook than U.S. soldiers in combat since 9/11

Newsweek — The number of children killed by gunfire in the United States since the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School is greater than the total of U.S. soldiers killed in overseas combat since 9/11, according to a Department of Defense report.
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Here's how easy it is for children to get their hands on a firearm

Here's how easy it is for children to get their hands on a firearm

Newsweek — The anti-gun-violence demonstration that displayed 7,000 pairs of empty shoes outside the U.S. Capitol building on Tuesday-one pair for each of the children killed by gunfire since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre-was a reminder of the carnage the United States has become accustomed to.
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Even conservatively estimated, Trump could feed every homeless veteran for the cost of his milita...

Even conservatively estimated, Trump could feed every homeless veteran for the cost of his milita...

Newsweek — President Donald Trump's military parade is set to kick off on Veterans Day, but at a cost that even conservative estimates show could feed every homeless veteran for at least two weeks, a Newsweek analysis found. The military showcase was initially estimated to cost $10 million and $30 million, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney told the House Budget Committee in February.
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500 Canadian doctors protest pay raises because they already make enough money

500 Canadian doctors protest pay raises because they already make enough money

Newsweek — Hundreds of Canadian doctors, medical specialists and residents, as well as medical students, have signed a petition protesting their own pay raises, instead asking that the money be reallocated to help nurses and patients in need.
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Former Trump adviser dumped millions in steel stocks days before the president announced new tari...

Former Trump adviser dumped millions in steel stocks days before the president announced new tari...

Newsweek — A billionaire investor and former presidential adviser unloaded nearly $31.3 million in a steel-related stock company just days before President Donald Trump announced he would impose steep tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum-news that sent stock markets tumbling around the world.
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Here's why the NRA is so powerful and why gun control advocates have reason for hope

Here's why the NRA is so powerful and why gun control advocates have reason for hope

Newsweek — In a now all too familiar sequence of events for Americans, gun control and the National Rifle Association were thrust into the forefront of the national conversation following the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine's Day.
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New calls to impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after second woman accuses him of sexu...

New calls to impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after second woman accuses him of sexu...

Newsweek — Lost in the din of the 2016 presidential election was a proto- #MeToo charge that called out Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas was famously accused of sexual harassment when law professor Anita Hill detailed such allegations during his 1991 confirmation hearing.
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The biggest news stories of 2017 were about destructive forces and mass movements

The biggest news stories of 2017 were about destructive forces and mass movements

Newsweek — The past year has been a wild ride. White supremacists rallied and anti-fascists confronted them in the streets. Flat-Earthers held their inaugural international convention and people started a campaign for Neil DeGrasse Tyson-Bill Nye for 2020. The world lost musicians including Tom Petty, Chris Cornell and Chuck Berry and the "Cash me outside, howbow dah" girl got a record deal.
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The FBI bugged Martin Luther King Jr.'s home, office and hotels and here's what they got on him

The FBI bugged Martin Luther King Jr.'s home, office and hotels and here's what they got on him

Newsweek Europe — The FBI was obsessed with Martin Luther King Jr. from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King was only 39 when he was killed on April 4, 1968, having spent 12 years-almost a third of his life-under the FBI's watch. In all that time, the bureau-and Director J.
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What took so long? Men's rooms in NYC will soon get diaper stations so women don't have to do all...

What took so long? Men's rooms in NYC will soon get diaper stations so women don't have to do all...

Newsweek — New York City this week became the first major city to dismantle a long-standing and socially reinforced stereotype that fathers aren't on the firing line, doing diaper duty with moms. Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law on Tuesday a bill that requires all newly built or heavily renovated public bathrooms to include diaper-changing stations-for both men and women.
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Trump is an autocratic leader in a weakening democracy, Harvard political scientists warn

Trump is an autocratic leader in a weakening democracy, Harvard political scientists warn

Newsweek — Two political scientists from Harvard University have identified four warning signs that indicate if someone poses a dangerous authoritarian risk to a nation. No U.S. politician, at least dating back to the Civil War, has come close to ticking off all four boxes, one of the authors told Newsweek -until Donald Trump came along.
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Michael Wolff made a career covering the rich and powerful, so the Trump White House was obvious ...

Michael Wolff made a career covering the rich and powerful, so the Trump White House was obvious ...

Newsweek Europe — Michael Wolff's career may have always been building toward this moment. The journalist and author, now the subject of countless stories and endless TV commentary, built his career by covering rich and powerful people, such as media mogul Rupert Murdoch and disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
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ISIS has repeatedly targeted the Shiite minority Muslims in Afghanistan this year

ISIS has repeatedly targeted the Shiite minority Muslims in Afghanistan this year

Newsweek — The Islamic State militant group, or ISIS, claimed responsibility for a series of explosions in the Afghan capital of Kabul that left at least 41 dead and 84 wounded on Thursday, according to reports.
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Here are the 10 Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020

Here are the 10 Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020

Newsweek Europe — President Donald Trump faced down a crowded field of GOP presidential hopefuls in 2016 as a political outsider, but he could see a packed stage of Republican challengers again in 2020-only as an incumbent this time. Trump made few political friends during his ascent to the White House.
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A tiny provision in the Republican tax bill will re-victimize sexual harassment and sexual abuse ...

A tiny provision in the Republican tax bill will re-victimize sexual harassment and sexual abuse ...

Newsweek — There is a tiny provision couched in the Republican tax bill that will financially harm survivors of sexual misconduct-and all because the bill was rushed through Congress, tax law experts said. The piece of legislation includes a brief plan that will cost money to victims of sexual harassment or sexual abuse by barring them from deducting settlements subject to non-disclosure agreements from their taxes.
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Andrew Cuomo, Kirsten Gillibrand, Bill de Blasio-New York is a breeding ground for possible 2020 ...

Andrew Cuomo, Kirsten Gillibrand, Bill de Blasio-New York is a breeding ground for possible 2020 ...

Newsweek — New York politicians appear to be following that timeless adage: If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere-like the White House. The state is stacked with high-profile and ambitious politicians whose names keep appearing in lists of potential candidates for a 2020 presidential run.
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The son of a tabloid news king could take over Disney and the fate of everyone in its magical kin...

The son of a tabloid news king could take over Disney and the fate of everyone in its magical kin...

Newsweek — The Walt Disney Company on Thursday announced it would acquire 21st Century Fox in a massive deal worth $52.4 billion and may put Fox's chief executive in line to run one of the most iconic entertainment companies in the world.
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Without black voters, white people would have single-handedly elected an accused child molester i...

Without black voters, white people would have single-handedly elected an accused child molester i...

Newsweek — Roy Moore said a Muslim shouldn't be allowed to serve in Congress, believes the last time America was great was when slavery existed and suggested that gay people should be jailed and even executed in order to protect their children-and still, an overwhelming majority of white Alabamian voters tried to put him in the Senate on Tuesday.
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New York City's 24-hour subway service, a symbol of freedom for decades, could end under a propos...

New York City's 24-hour subway service, a symbol of freedom for decades, could end under a propos...

Newsweek Europe — The city that never sleeps might end up with a subway system that does. A transportation group has proposed ending New York City's cherished 24-hour-a-day subway service, a move that would help officials make repairs faster but would crush a cornerstone of the city's identity that has existed since the subway started running its first line on October 27, 1904.
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