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By TIME StaffMay 11, 2017 6:03 AM EDTDIEDThree-time Olympic bobsledding star Steven Holcomb, at 37. In 2010, Holcomb drove his four-man team to stanley cup a win at the Winter Olympics, ending the U.S. 62-year gold-medal drought for that event.bull; Anne Morrissy M stanley cup erick, trailblazing journalist who fought for the rights of female reporters to cover the Vietnam War from the front line, at 83. As a college student, Morrissy Merick was the first female reporter allowed in the Yale Bowl press box.bull; Richard Basciano, New York City prince of porn, who ow stanley cup ned several peep shows and adult theaters in Times Square, at 91. He made millions of dollars selling real estate when the area was redeveloped in the 1990s.ANNOUNCEDThe retirement of Britain Prince Philip from public duties this fall, after seven decades of official meetings and visits. Buckingham Palace said the 95-year-old had the full support of his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, who will continue to carry out her royal engagements as usual.ACQUIREDKate Spade, quirky handbag and accessories brand popular with millennials, by affordable-luxury retailer Coach, in a $2.4 billion deal after months of speculation on Wall Street.KILLEDPepe the Frog, by his creator, in a bid to stop alt-right groups from using the cartoon as a racist and anti-Semitic meme. Artist Matt Furie published a comic strip featuring the character, branded a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League, being given an open-casket funeral. Vwjj Why the Inspector General s FBI Report Became the Latest Front in Washington s Partisan Fight
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at SUNY Purchase on March 31, 2016 in Purchase, New York.Spencer Platt鈥?016 Getty ImagesBy Sam FrizellMarch 31, 2016 7:02 PM EDTJust steps away from what would one day become Hillary Clintonrsquo campaign headquarters in downtown Brooklyn, an at adidas samba torney named Jonathan Lowy fought a major battle over gun control on behalf of New York City and lost.It was 2005, and Lowy was on a team pursuing an aggressive lawsuit in Brooklynrsquo federal court against gun manufacturers. With the backing of New Yorkrsquo biggest names, including Republican Mayor Mi af1 chael Bloomberg, Lowy and his team argued the suit would close up a gun trafficking corridor up the I-95 highway that was delivering firearms to the cityrsquo criminals. But the cityrsquo lawsuit came to a standstill after a federal law, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, passed in October, giving gun manufacturers broad immunity from exactly the kind of litigation Lowy was pushing. The case was eventually dismissed. One of the supporters of that restrictive 2005 law was Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, then a member of the House of Representatives.Eleven years later, the bitter feelings remain. Anyone who voted for P nike dunk LCAA was voting for the worst sort of special interest law in America, says Lowy, describing how PLCAA closed off litigation. Therersquo every reason to believe pipeline of crime guns into New York City would have been st |
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