Question: The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881.

The "Times" was first published on December 4, 1881, as the "Los Angeles Daily Times" under the direction of Nathan Cole Jr. and Thomas Gardiner. It was first printed at the Mirror printing plant, owned by Jesse Yarnell and T.J. Caystile. Unable to pay the printing bill, Cole and Gardiner turned the paper over to the Mirror Company. In the meantime, S. J. Mathes had joined the firm, and it was at his insistence that the "Times" continued publication. In July 1882, Harrison Gray Otis moved from Santa Barbara to become the paper's editor. Otis made the "Times" a financial success.

Historian Kevin Starr wrote that Otis was a businessman "capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politics and public opinion for his own enrichment". Otis's editorial policy was based on civic boosterism, extolling the virtues of Los Angeles and promoting its growth. Toward those ends, the paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply by acquiring the rights to the water supply of the distant Owens Valley. The efforts of the "Times" to fight local unions led to the October 1, 1910 bombing of its headquarters, killing twenty-one people. Two union leaders, James and Joseph McNamara, were charged. The American Federation of Labor hired noted trial attorney Clarence Darrow to represent the brothers, who eventually pleaded guilty. 1. What printing plant first printed the "Los Angeles Daily Times"?
2. What year was if first printed?
3. What city was it printed in?
4. What state was it printed in?
5. Did it have financial troubles in the beginning?
6. Who were two people involved in it during the very beginning?
7. Who were two people who owned the Mirror?
8. What role did Harrison Gray Otis take on at the paper?
9. When?
10. Did he speak well of the city?
11. What natural resource was he concerned with?
12. In 1910 what was a cause of unrest for the paper?
13. Were lives lost in the fighting over this?
14. How many?
15. What title did James and Joseph McNamara have?
16. Did they get in trouble for their roles?
17. Who defended them on charges?
18. Were they found not guilty?
19. Were they found guilty? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. the Mirror
2. 1881
3. Los Angeles
4. California
5. yes
6. Nathan Cole Jr. and Thomas Gardiner
7. Jesse Yarnell and T.J. Caystile
8. editor
9. July 1882
10. yes
11. water
12. local unions
13. yes
14. twenty-one
15. union leaders
16. yes
17. Clarence Darrow
18. no
19. they pleaded guilty

Question: Washington (CNN)Updates on Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and John Kasich, an economic twist on the old adage "All politics is local," and an overseas vote where President Obama would love to see an anti-incumbent backlash -- those stories filled our Sunday trip around the "Inside Politics" table.

The official White House line will be something like this: The Israeli people are making their choice, the United States admires their vibrant democracy and looks forward to a close friendship and strategic partnership with the next Israeli government no matter who wins. But it's no secret President Obama is no fan of Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli prime minister's recent address to a joint meeting of the Congress exposed the rawness of the relationship.

So as the votes are counted and the coalitions debated in the week ahead, the White House has both a personal and professional interest.

NPR's Steve Inskeep took a firsthand look at the Israeli campaign in the final days and offered his take on the uncertainty.

"Now, Israel's political system is so complicated that even if (Netanyahu's) party ends up not being the leading party, there are scenarios where he could end up in a governing coalition," said Inskeep.

"But it's interesting to note that Isaac Herzog, the Labor Party leader, who's his biggest challenger, wants to change Israel's approach to the world -- has been talking about trying to end Israel's isolation in the world, which would suggest changing a lot of policies that have infuriated this White House or frustrated this White House over the last several years." 1. Who works for NPR?
2. What did he do?
3. At what?
4. Did he have an opinion?
5. What was it?
6. Who?
7. What is the old saying about politics?
8. What is the president likely to say?
9. Who doesn't Obama like?
10. Who is that?
11. What happened recently that revealed their relationship?
12. What was being counted? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Steve Inskeep
2. took a firsthand look
3. the Israeli campaign
4. yes
5. he could end up governing
6. Netanyahu
7. All politics is local
8. The Israeli people are making their choice,
9. Benjamin Netanyahu
10. Israeli prime minister
11. an address
12. the votes

Question: Ray Rice is a human who made a mistake that he'd never made before and that he won't make again, wife Janay Rice said in an interview that aired Monday.

"Ray knows me, and there's no way. He knows what he would have to deal with. ... I'm not going to sit there in silence and let something happen to me. And God forbid, in front of my child, just let it happen? There's no way."

It was Janay Rice's second interview since her husband, a former running back for the Baltimore Ravens, viciously knocked her out in a casino elevator in Atlantic City, New Jersey, after a night of heavy drinking.

Images from inside the elevator would change the pair's lives, as Ray Rice was indefinitely suspended by the NFL, and Janay Rice became a poster child for domestic violence.

The most shocking clip shows the 200-pound football player punching his then-fiancee, sending her head into the wall before she collapses unconscious to the floor. Surveillance video shows Ray Rice drag her partially out of the elevator and callously dump her limp body face-first on the ground.

"He said he was just terrified," Janay Rice told the "Today" show in an interview that aired Monday. "He was in such shock that this just happened, he didn't know how to function."

Opening up

Sitting next to her mother, Candy Palmer, and occasionally fending off sniffles and dabbing her eyes with a tissue, Janay Rice said she was angry and hurt by her husband's violence, but it also hurt to see his career pulled out from under him, to lose the "support system" that the Ravens provided and to be forced to "pick up and move." 1. who is the article about?
2. what is his profession?
3. what team does he play for?
4. is he married?
5. her name?
6. did he do a bad thing?
7. what?
8. did this occur in their home?
9. where did it happen?
10. in what building?
11. where is it located?
12. what state is that in?
13. was he sober at the time?
14. were there repercussions for his actions?
15. what were they?
16. for a day?
17. for how long?
18. did his spouse talk to the press?
19. more than once?
20. what is her mom called? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Ray Rice
2. he is a football player
3. he used to play for the Baltimore Ravens
4. Yes
5. Janay Rice
6. Yes
7. he knocked his wife out
8. No
9. in an elevator
10. a casino
11. Atlantic City
12. New Jersey
13. No
14. Yes
15. he suspended from his job
16. No
17. indefinitely
18. Yes
19. Yes
20. Candy Palmer