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A.M. Links: Senator Doesn't Want Fox to Air NRA-Sponsored NASCAR Race, JFK Assassination Artifacts to Go on Display, Cartels Getting Cheap Cocaine

Matthew Feeney | 4.12.2013 9:00 AM


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  • Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has written a letter to Rupert Murdoch asking that Fox not air a NASCAR race sponsored by the NRA. 
  • Some artifacts from the JFK assassination that have never been displayed before are to be part of exhibitions at the Newseum in Washington D.C.
  • The decline of Colombia's drug gangs has resulted in Mexican cartels having access to cheap cocaine. 
  • NYPD Sgt. Ed Mullins wants costumed characters in Times Square to be licensed and fingerprinted. 
  • A woman in North Carolina has won a settlement after she was arrested for filming a traffic stop from her front yard. 
  • Obama has said that North Korea must stop its "belligerent approach."

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Matthew Feeney is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute.