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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings, whose unflinching reporting ended the career of a top American army general, died early Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles, his employer and family said. "Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians," said Ben Smith, BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief. Hastings quoted McChrystal and his aides mocking Obama administration officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, over their war policies. According to the magazine, he lived in New York with his wife.

Between 1993 and early 2011, FBI agents shot 150 people, killing 70 of them. According to internal investigations by the FBI, every one of those shootings was justified. Read more

The tweet is fake, but still perfect. Open thread below

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