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- Man recants story about three masked men robbing him and calling him racial slurs.
- Columbia University received two hoax bomb threats.
- Unlike in the U.S., Brazilian white collar criminals are actually going to jail.
- New York State’s farm worker laws are stuck in the 1930s, leaving migrant workers subject to massive exploitation
- Joey Votto IS: The Man Who Won’t Strike Out.
- Angela Merkel thinks the U.S. can’t be counted on as a global partner and that Europe has to look out for itself now.
- The people who are hurt when the state decides only to help the “deserving” poor.
- Cuomo’s “Genuis Competition” has got some problems, man.
- A man walking on the Cross Bronx Expressway was struck by a tractor trailer driver and then several more drivers in a hit-and-run.
- And finally, tonight all is silence in the world, as we take our stand, down in Jungleland: