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NY judge rebuffs fantasy sports companies’ bid to block AG’s move

November 17, 2015 creative are-building, attorney, been-pressuring, cheltenham, dissuade-people, games, gchq, saleh-nikbakht, vendors

A New York state judge denied a temporary restraining order sought by daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel in an effort to keep operating in the state after New York’s attorney general deemed the games to be illegal gambling. In seeking the restraining orders, the companies said that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office had been pressuring their vendors to stop doing business with them, and they could be forced to close up shop in the state

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DraftKings, FanDuel lose early bid to head off NY shutdown

November 17, 2015 creative are-building, attorney, been-pressuring, cheltenham, daily, dissuade-people, games, vendors, york

(Repeats with no changes) By Brendan Pierson and Michael Erman NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel on Monday lost an atttempt to head off the New York attorney general’s effort to shut down the companies in the state. A New York state judge denied temporary restraining orders sought by the companies that would have halted New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s efforts to declare the games illegal gambling in the state. Schneiderman said the games were against state law last week and told the companies to stop taking money from New Yorkers.

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Tech-savvy sex traffickers stay ahead of authorities as lure teens online

November 16, 2015 creative arsenal, created-new, facebook, instagram, latest-online, law-enforcement, luring-victims, people-through, thomson-reuters, white-collar

By Alex Whiting LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Nicole was aged 17 and her mother was sent to prison for white collar crimes, she met a man on Facebook who offered to take care of her.

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Relatives search for missing, grief pours out on social media after Paris attacks

November 14, 2015 creative arsenal, callum-hamish, citing-fears, cousin, created-new, deadly-assault, during-parade, facebook, iran, saturday, tehran, twitter, white-collar

By Raissa Kasolowsky LONDON (Reuters) – Scores of appeals for missing people circulated on Twitter and green “I am safe” ticks appeared on Facebook profiles of many Parisians on Saturday, as an outpouring of shock and grief over Friday’s deadly assault dominated social media. Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were flooded with tributes, messages of condolences and solidarity for the victims and for France, with #PrayforParis and #PrayersforParis the top trending hashtags by far

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Fantasy sports sites sue to keep doors open in NY

November 13, 2015 creative acting-as-judge, bets-on-events, companies, control, events-outside, filed-lawsuits, games, jason-robins, online, ordered-the-two, rule-the-games, said-on-friday, schneiderman, suzanne-barlyn, two-companies

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Fans protest end of daily fantasy sports in New York

November 13, 2015 creative after-the-state, fantasy-sports, friday, online, rule-the-games, said-on-friday, schneiderman, stopped-taking

Fans of daily fantasy sports protested what could be the end of the online games in New York after the state’s attorney general decided earlier this week that they constituted illegal gambling.

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Trump’s rant against Carson goes viral on social media

November 13, 2015 creative austin-berglas, campaign-event, carson, college, donald, fbi, incident, iran, quickly-became, said-additional, topic-on-social, twitter

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's rant against fellow contender Ben Carson on Thursday, in which he said Carson had a “pathological” temper as a young man, quickly became a lively topic on social media on Friday. Speaking in Iowa late Thursday, Trump cast doubt on Carson's often-reported story of lunging at someone with a hunting knife as a child, an episode Carson says led him to Christianity.

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Secret Service officer arrested in child sexting sting

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A U.S. Secret Service officer assigned to the White House was arrested this week after he sent naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, according to a criminal complaint

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Student journalist files complaint against Missouri academic who called for ‘muscle’

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Student Mark Schierbecker complained twice to campus police about Click, said Major Brian Weimer, a spokesman for the University of Missouri police department. “I thought about it up until last night when I actually made the call and told the officer that I wanted to go ahead and press charges,” Schierbecker, 21, said in an interview with Reuters. Police and prosecutors would investigate the claim and decide whether to formally charge Click, Schierbecker said.

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Bloomingdale’s ‘spiked eggnog’ ad sparks outrage on social media

November 12, 2015 creative 2015-holiday, black, campus-police, circuit-court, claim, critics-saying, documents-said, office, promotes-date, rebecca-minkoff, santa, santa-monica, secret-service, social-media

A holiday advertisement by Bloomingdale's that encourages drink spiking was trending heavily on social media on Thursday with some critics saying the image promotes date rape. The ad, which was released in Bloomingdale's 2015 holiday catalog and was meant to advertise Rebecca Minkoff merchandise, features a woman looking away and laughing as a young man looks at her suggestively. The text reads: “Spike your best friend's eggnog when they're not looking.” The luxury department store owned by Macy's Inc apologized for the 'inappropriate' eggnog advertisement on Tuesday