Just days after his SUV was the target of a drive-by shooting, rapper Rick Ross decided he needs his own version of the secret service -- an armed security detail working 24 hours a day to protect him from another attempt on his life.
It felt like a time warp on Wednesday night when an unexpected headline hit the wires: "NYC authorities take down 'Bad Barbies'." This is not a scene from The Warriors. It is real.
Cites "progress" made in the "11th hour" of debt negotiations
Violence in the Mexican drug wars is said to have reached new extremes
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