Author: Adam Martin

Shep Smith Apologizes After Fox News Airs a Suicide

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A carjacking suspect being chased by police in Phoenix suddenly got out of the car and shot himself on live television, prompting Fox News's Shepard Smith to apologize after the network aired the footage.

By Adam Martin

Sep 6, 2011

NYPD Won't Make Friends Arresting Its Critics

Critics of stop-and-frisk policing are outraged by the arrest of a Brooklyn councilman

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By Adam Martin

Sep 6, 2011

Trimming the Times: Loyalists' Flight; Sperm Donor Difficulty

A guide to what's in The New York Times for those worried about hitting its pay wall

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By Adam Martin

Sep 2, 2011

Making Sense of This iPhone 5 Story

A guy says Apple folks, posing as cops, raided his house

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By Adam Martin

Sep 2, 2011

Fugitive Professor's Students Saw a Friendly, Disorganized Tough Guy

A professor accused of dealing methamphetamine as the head of a biker gang

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By Adam Martin

Sep 2, 2011

White House Rolls Over on Smog Standards

Backing off plan to tighten air quality rules, Obama cites 'regulatory burdens' on industry

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By Adam Martin

Sep 2, 2011

China Half-Heartedly Censors Ai Weiwei's Newsweek Piece

The government tore the page out of magazines but left the article online

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By Adam Martin

Sep 2, 2011

Libyan Rebels Give UCLA Tagalong the Boot, But He Won't Leave

Chris Jeon has apparently worn out his welcome on the front line, and got on a truck back to Benghazi

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By Adam Martin

Sep 2, 2011

Earthquake, Tsunami Warning Rattle Alaska

Shallow depth meant quake could have been destructive, but the affected area is sparsely populated

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By Adam Martin

Sep 2, 2011

Trimming the Times: Suing the Banks; Israel's Ambassador

A guide to what's in The New York Times for those worried about hitting its pay wall

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By Adam Martin

Sep 2, 2011

August Jobs Report Shows No Growth

Unemployment stubbornly remains at 9.1 percent

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By Adam Martin

Sep 1, 2011

What We Know About the UCLA Math Major Fighting in Libya

Chris Jeon thought a vacation fighting with the rebels would be 'sick'

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By Adam Martin

Sep 1, 2011

Australians Ask: What Do We Do With a Folk Hero's Bones?

With Ned Kelly's skeleton finally identified, the question becomes what to do with it

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By Adam Martin

Sep 1, 2011

Gibson CEO Embraces His NRA Moment

Henry Juszkiewicz taps into a libertarian streak similar to that of gun advocates

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By Adam Martin

Sep 1, 2011

Trimming the Times: Speech Scheduling; Ned Kelly's Bones

A guide to what's in The New York Times for those worried about hitting its pay wall

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By Adam Martin

Aug 31, 2011

Michelin Tweets a Rave About a Closed Restaurant

A tweet from the arbiter of fine dining referred to a meal 'last night' at Le Bernardin

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By Adam Martin

Aug 31, 2011

Grilled Cheese Purists Fail to Melt for Flip Video Guy's Sandwiches

San Francisco loves fine food and fun technology, but the two don't always marry well

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By Adam Martin

Aug 31, 2011

Obama Puts Joint-Session Jobs Speech Against Republican Debate

The president's choice of venue and time poses a direct challenge to his political opponents

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By Adam Martin

Aug 31, 2011

Staring Down Microsoft, Google Launches Offline Gmail, Docs

The move offline means Google's free programs are more like the software giant's

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By Adam Martin

Aug 31, 2011

New York State Declared Major Disaster as Farms Drown

Upstate counties have been hit much harder than the relatively unscathed city

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By Adam Martin

Aug 31, 2011

Mullen Lauds Petraeus the Author at Army Retirement Ceremony

Petraeus wrote the top-selling counterinsurgency manual

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By Adam Martin

Aug 31, 2011

Kosovo Man Says He Shot U.S. Airmen After Watching 'Redacted'

Frankfurt attacker 'can't understand myself how I could have acted this way'

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By Adam Martin

Aug 31, 2011

Trimming the Times: Pricey Irene; Real Dry Riesling

A guide to what's in The New York Times for those worried about hitting its pay wall

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By Adam Martin

Aug 30, 2011

Syrian Hackers Target Columbia University's Facebook, but Miss

But the attack missed the official page, and doesn't seem to have been too well organized

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By Adam Martin

Aug 30, 2011

Gawker: Bill O'Reilly Had His Wife's Cop Boyfriend Investigated by Cops

Report says Fox pundit used a promise of a police charity donation as leverage

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By Adam Martin

Aug 30, 2011

Consumer Confidence at Its Worst Since 2009

Report finds Americans nervous about jobs and the general economic outlook

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By Adam Martin

Aug 30, 2011

NATO Jet Goes Down After Midair Crash

Lithuanian fighter plane crashed into French jet while on a joint Balkan air patrol

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By Adam Martin

Aug 30, 2011

China Rescues 19 Miners Trapped for a Week

Three still missing underground after two separate rescue attempts

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By Adam Martin

Aug 30, 2011

Trimming the Times: 9/11 Guidelines; Qaddafi Loyalists Speak

A guide to what's in The New York Times for those worried about hitting its pay wall

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By Adam Martin

Aug 29, 2011

The Rockets That Could Still Save the Day for NASA

After a Russian rocket crashed, NASA is looking in greater earnest for a successor

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By Adam Martin

Aug 29, 2011

New York's Hurricane Irene Heroes and Zeros

The individuals we'll remember, for better or worse, from the storm that didn't drown New York

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By Adam Martin

Aug 29, 2011

NASA Considers Leaving International Space Station Unmanned

After a Russian rocket crashed, NASA's unsure about ferrying its astronauts

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By Adam Martin

Aug 29, 2011

Mexico Arrests Five in Horrific Casino Arson

Extraordinarily brutal attack led to protests of governor and mayor

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By Adam Martin

Aug 29, 2011

Despite Hurricane, Stocks Rise in Early Trading

Strong spending report and light storm damage led to a robust start for Wall Street

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By Adam Martin

Aug 29, 2011

Ai Weiwei Gets Back to Criticizing China in NewsBeast Essay

The artist takes aim at the government that detained him

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By Adam Martin

Aug 29, 2011

Trimming the Times: Assessing Irene; Anonymous's Mask Money

A guide to what's in The New York Times for those worried about hitting its pay wall

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By Adam Martin

Aug 26, 2011

Tim Cook Got a Very Nice Signing Bonus

The new Apple CEO picked up 1,000,000 shares

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By Adam Martin

Aug 26, 2011

Eat Well During the Storm, Even at the Last Minute

You don't have to eat canned chili, and stores are probably sold out of it anyway

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By Adam Martin

Aug 26, 2011

Libyan Rebels Say They've Got Qaddafi Surrounded (Again)

A minister says forces are monitoring his hiding spot before they go in, unlike on Thursday

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By Adam Martin

Aug 26, 2011

See 1,000 White-Clad New Yorkers Eat a Formal Guerilla Picnic

The Diner en Blanc, a 23-year-old Parisian tradition, had its debut stateside

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By Adam Martin

Aug 26, 2011

Offering No Stimulus, Bernanke Looks to Government for Recovery

Address to central bankers puts onus on Washington to set policy that will drive growth

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By Adam Martin

Aug 26, 2011

Markets Rise Following Bernanke's Speech

With GDP revised downward, all eyes will be on the Fed chairman in Wyoming

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By Adam Martin

Aug 26, 2011

Trimming the Times: Hurricane Prep; Casualties in Libya

A guide to what's in The New York Times for those worried about hitting its pay wall

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By Adam Martin

Aug 25, 2011

East Coast Universities Freaking Out Over the Hurricane

If you're planning to matriculate this weekend, double-check with your school

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By Adam Martin

Aug 25, 2011

Gibson Defends Its Guitar Wood After Federal Raids

The U.S. government says the instrument maker illegally imports ebony

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By Adam Martin

Aug 25, 2011

Photos: Chinese Paper Replicas Fooled the NYPD

A Chinatown merchant was arrested for selling Burberry and Luis Vuitton joss

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By Adam Martin

Aug 25, 2011

Do We Need Professional Food Critics? Ask Portland

A revealing Seattle Weekly comment over a cops reporter-turned food critic

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By Adam Martin

Aug 25, 2011

The Dropped DSK Prosecution's Impact on Rape Reporting

Victims' advocates predict a chilling effect on future prosecutions

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By Adam Martin

Aug 25, 2011

Trimming the Times: Mortgage Manipulation; Steve Jobs in Patents

A guide to what's in The New York Times for those worried about hitting its pay wall

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By Adam Martin

Aug 24, 2011

BART Protesters Target Spokesman Below the Belt

Leaked photos of a semi-naked Linton Johnson go too far, some in Anonymous say

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By Adam Martin

Aug 24, 2011

Parsing Strauss-Kahn's New York Diet

His food habits have been a source of fascination for the press, rightly or not

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