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IRAN FREES US SAILORS PAKISTAN BOMB ATTACK $2B UBER INVESTMENT
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I ran released 10 U.S. sailors on Wednesday after A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people, most of them Uber said it has received almost
holding them overnight, bringing a swift end to police, outside a polio eradication center in the Pakistani $2 billion in funding from Chinese
an incident that had rattled nerves days ahead city of Quetta on Wednesday, the latest militant attack on investors, some as part of a recent
of the expected implementation of a landmark the anti-polio campaign in the country. Two militant groups — the fund-raising round that valued the U.S.
nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers. Pakistani Taliban and Jundullah, which has links with the Taliban fi rm’s Chinese unit at $7 billion. Uber’s
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had and has pledged allegiance to Islamic State — separately claimed main global entity received the rest of
freed the sailors after determining they had entered responsibility for the attack. The bomb blew up a police van that had the money, though the company did not
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teenager is dead after a shooting in broad Jersey’s distressed seaside gambling off his skateboard while truck-
daylight. The NYPD said that on Wednes- hub, denounced a proposed state surfi ng alongside a Mack truck
day around 2:45 p.m., offi cers were dispatched to takeover of the city’s operations on on the Lower East Side. Richard Oates,
Livonia and Pennsylvania avenues whereupon they Wednesday, saying similar moves to seize 32, of Brooklyn, was struck by the rear
discovered two young men, 18 and 17 years of control of school districts in Camden and passenger-side wheels of a Mack truck
age, wounded by gunfi re. The 18-year-old victim Newark have failed. that he had been hanging onto while on
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THURSDAY , JANUARY 14 , 2016
Gov. Cuomo
Brooklyn reporter Glenn Bain tweeted ernor was ignoring the plight
Assemblyman that, as Cuomo was just begin- of the state’s impoverished proposes
ning to address the crowd, and working classes.
Charles Barron Barron stood up and began This isn’t the fi rst time
interrupts addressing the governor. Barron interrupted Cuomo.
Both Cuomo and Barron are In 2011, when Barron $145B budget
Cuomo — again Democrats. was a city councilman, he
The Associated Press shouted at the governor
explained that Barron was during a speech Cuomo was
Assemblyman Charles Barron criticizing what he considers delivering at the Association
is known as a community Cuomo’s hypocrisy. He report- of Black and Puerto Rican
activist, and at Gov. Cuomo’s edly left the address and told Legislators, the New York
State of the State address reporters outside that he Daily News reported.
today he lived up to that believes Cuomo should invest In that incident, Barron
reputation. “at least $2 billion” into public insisted that Cuomo ought to
New York Daily News education — and that the gov- Barron “tax the rich.” JOSH KRUGER
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Judge leaning toward sealing ing sexual matters. fi led a countersuit in U.S. District other side will have up to seven
some evidence in Cosby suit U.S. Magistrate Judge David Court in Massachusetts last days to challenge.
A U.S. judge on Wednesday Hennessy rejected their bid. In- month, accusing the women of Joseph Cammarata, an
brokered a compromise on stead, he said he was inclined to defaming him. attorney for the women,
whether to release evidence in a give each side up to seven days The seven are among more acknowledged that depositions
defamation suit brought against to make the case for whether than 50 women who have come of witnesses including Cosby and
comedian Bill Cosby by seven individual pieces of testimony forward to publicly accuse Cosby his wife, Camille, would delve
women who accuse him of sexu- should be sealed. of sexually assaulting them into personal matters.
ally assaulting them. Tamara Green sued Cosby in after plying them with drugs or “Are we going to talk about
Cosby’s attorneys wanted to December 2014, accusing him of alcohol in alleged attacks carried the sexual history? Of course.
seal all evidence in the case for lying when he publicly denied out over a number of decades. Are we going to talk about the
at least 14 days. This would likely having sexually assaulted her, Hennessy said that once he extramarital activity? Yes,” Cam-
include depositions by Cosby and and six other women have since had received a request for depo- marata said. “We already know
his wife Camille on topics cover- joined in the lawsuit. Cosby, 78, sition evidence to be sealed, the these subject matters.” REUTERS
People walk past a mural of comedian Bill Cosby in Washington, D.C. GETTY IMAGES
Bill Cosby is or oral penetration by a
charged in Mont- sex organ of another per-
son, without the consent
gomery County,
of the victim.”
Pennsylvania, with Some said that the
aggravated indecent federal definition, which
is not used for prosecu-
assault, but some
tion but for federal re-
victim advocates cord-keeping, should be
think those terms embraced as it treats any
kind of sexual violation as
don’t do justice.
rape, which has been his-
torically considered one
SAM NEWHOUSE of the most abhorrent
@scnewhouse crimes. 
[email protected] “There is never ‘just a
sexual assault’ to the per-
The downfall of Bill Cosby son who experienced it,”
famously began in Octo- said Stephanie DeCandia,
ber 2014 after comedian director of programs at
Hannibal Buress  ragged the Boston Area Rape Cri-
on Cosby during a stand- sis Center.
up show at the Trocadero “We work with clients
in Philadelphia, repeated- who define what hap-
ly calling him a “rapist.” pened to them as rape,
Except there’s one yet in the criminal system
problem with that state- the offender is charged
ment:  Cosby is not with an indecent assault
charged with rape. He is and battery because that
charged with indecent is the charge the evidence
sexual assault. in the case will allow,”
In the days since Cosby DeCandia said. “That can
was arraigned by Mont- be frustrating for survi-
gomery County pros- vors because they feel
ecutors, most media have that what fully happened
used the phrase “sexual to them is being mini-
assault” when referring to mized or ignored.”
the charges against Cos- The definition of rape
by.   While Cosby’s al- is the subject of ongoing
leged crime occurred in lively discussions, as anti-
2004,  according to the rape activists claim for
FBI’s 2012 re-definition example that U.S. colleges
of the crime, the acts al- have an epidemic of rape,
leged would be classified while some, including
as rape. Harvard Law School pro-
The FBI now defines fessors, have questioned
rape as “the penetration, the legality of college pro-
no matter how slight, of ceedings on rape.
the vagina or anus with “We’re moving toward
any body part or object, understanding sexual of-
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Is Cosby
BRIEFS
Upcoming ‘Homeland’ that, but I can confi rm that.”
a ‘rapist’?
season to be set, shot Regarding the show’s lon-
in New York City gevity, Showtime’s entertain-
The upcoming sixth season ment president, Gary Levine,
of Showtime’s “Homeland” said that no end is in sight,
It’s more will mostly take place and be and creator Alex Gansa “sees
produced in New York. many seasons to come,” Levine
Showtime Networks CEO said to ABC.
David Nevins has said that the Claire Danes on set GC IMAGES The show’s lead actress,
storyline of the sixth season Claire Danes, lives in Manhat-
complex will be set domestically and reported. kept secret, Nevins told the tan with her husband and
will primarily be shot “in and Because the details on the New York Daily News, “We their son, the Daily News
around New York City,” TV Line upcoming season are being don’t know much more than added. METRO
than you
think
fenses as being deeply use of force, Dempsey
tied up with sexual au- pointed out.
tonomy, and charges “In response, the
shouldn’t require force Pennsylvania legislature
— non-consent should ... came up with sexual
be enough,”  said Villa- assault for an offense
nova University Law Pro- that involves penetra-
fessor  Michelle Madden tion without consent,”
Dempsey. “That’s all the Dempsey said. “We count
more true because there things like touching as
are so many cases like the criminal assault and bat-
Cosby case where some- tery if they’re done with-
one is incapacitated, or out consent. If they’re
when someone is expe- sexual in nature, if they
riencing what psycholo- involve penis going into
gists call being ‘frozen in someone’s vagina or
fear.’” anus or what have you, it
In Pennsylvania law, seems logical we should
rape would only apply count that kind of con-
if the incident involved duct as sexual assault as
sexual intercourse. well.”
That definition is DeCandia also said
problematic for a num- legal realities often limit
ber of reasons, Dempsey what a person is charged
said — including that it’s with.
difficult to secure a rape “The legal definitions
conviction. and statutory titles are
“Since the 1970s, very fact-specific and
various jurisdictions charges brought are most
have  modernized their often dependent on the
sexual offenses in a num- facts that the prosecution
ber of ways. Many states believe can be proven
decided to drop the label to meet the legal defini-
rape and make the most tions,” she said. “This is
egregious crime ‘sexual why it’s helpful for ev-
assault,’” she said. “The eryone to not view the
really old-fashioned defi- criminal justice system as
nition of rape … required the be-all and end-all for
physical resistance by the defining what is sexual
victim, both use of force violence and whether or
and non-consent. It was not it happened, and that
quite a difficult definition it is not the only recourse
to satisfy from the pros- for justice or healing.”
ecutor’s perspective.” “The understanding
In a famous 1994 of those words covers
Pennsylvania Supreme roughly the behavior he
Court decision, a man has allegedly done,” she
had his rape conviction said. “It’s not a legal mis-
overturned because the representation. But he is
act did not include the only accused.”
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Schumer seeks funds
NEW CAREER
for L train upgrades
Sen. Charles Schumer is customers travel on the L
asking the feds to chip in each weekday, an almost
to alleviate overcrowd- 100 percent increase since
Make 2016 Your ing on the constantly 1998.
crowded L train. “In the morning it is
The $300 million often difficult when I am
Year For Success project would allow for an taking my son to school
additional 2,200 passen- because we have to let
gers per hour and would trains go by to get on
January Classes Start Soon! include physical upgrades because it is so crowded,”
like new staircases, said Whitney Van Nes,
entrances and wheelchair- 43, at the Morgan Avenue
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General Electric Co. said centives and the sale of
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the industrial conglomer- New York City.
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GE said. ment than any other and building improve-
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