Remembered: Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died yesterday in Syria from an apparent asthma attack. Jill Abramson, the Times executive editor, said “Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping the Middle East and to testify to the suffering of people caught between government oppression and opposition forces." More coverage here and here.
Tracked: The Wall Street Journal reports Google Inc. and other advertising companies are ignoring iPhone user's privacy settings on Apple's web browser to track habits. Google, the report said, is using a special computer code that tricks the Apple browser into letting the search giant access browsing habits.
Collected: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing new rules that would for the first time cover large debt collectors and credit reporting agencies, The National Law Journal reports. The draft rules said law firms and attorneys involved in consumer debt collection would fall under the supervision of the agency.
Killed: One person was killed and another was wounded during a shooting at federal building in Long Beach, Calif. A federal immigration agent wounded a colleague before a third agent killed the gunman. (Updated at 12:12 p.m. to clarify the number of dead.)
Abandoned: A Rhode Island public school district said it will not challenge a federal court ruling that ordered the removal of a prayer banner on display in a high school. The banner had been displayed since 1963. A 16-year-old atheist sued over the display.
Busted: The authorities said they found a cache of marijuana on a privately owned Cessna that entered the airspace of Marine One yesterday in Los Angeles. Two Air Force F-16 fighter jets intercepted the plane.
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