Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Snowden, Michael Brown's Parents at UN
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title: Actor Picked to Play Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone's Biopic
text: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is being circulated as the likely lead in director Oliver Stone's Snowden biopic.
Variety reported that the former Third Rock From The Sun child star is very interested in the role and though formal contract negotiations are not believed to have started, both Stone and Gordon-Levitt want it to happen.
Stone's film comes after he acquired the rights to the book that Snowden's attorney, Antoly Kucherena, wrote about the former NSA contracter's efforts to release classified documents.
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title: Michael Brown's Parents Get International Audience
text: The parents of the African American teen shot by a police officer in August in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson spoke out at the United Nations in Switzerland on Tuesday, saying they wanted the world to know "what's going on in Ferguson."
Michael Brown's parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., spoke in front of the U.N. Committee Against Torture and are slated to appear before the same group again today.
Their appearance comes as their hometown braces for the expected release of the grand jury decision about their son's case. The grand jury will determine what if any criminal charges will be filed against the white police officer who shot the teenager. The officer claims he shot in self defense.
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title: Brazen Thieves Rob New York City Jewelry Store
text: Two heavily armed men robbed a jewelry store in New York City's Diamond District on Tuesday just as the Veteran's Day parade was underway one block away, according to ABC 7.
Police are searching for the two suspects who reportedly posed as delivery men when they were buzzed into the family-owned jewelry store on the eighth floor of a building on West 47th Street, ABC 7 reports.
The owner opened the safe after being threatened with weapons and they were robbed of both cash and jewelry but no official estimate of the stolen goods has been released.
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title: Famed Rapper Dies at Age 57
text: One of the founding members of the Sugarhill Gang, Henry 'Big Bank Hank' Jackson, died on Tuesday.
The rap pioneer, whose group was best known for their 1979 hit 'Rappers Delight,' was 57 and the group's manager told Fox News that his death was due to kidney complications due to cancer.
His bandmates, Wonder Mike and Master Gee, announced the death to their fans over Instagram, sharing an old photo of the three men.
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