New York Times adds bricks to its paywall

The New York Times announced on its website Tuesday evening that it has decided to cut the number of free stories nonsubscribers are allowed to read in half.

People without a subscription can read 20 free stories per month on their website, but beginning in April, that number drops to 10. Nonsubscribers will also continue to get free access to the home page. Links from Facebook, Twitter and search engines will not count toward the total.

The paper says the move "will strengthen our ability to continue providing the world's most insightful and investigative reporting in journalism today, as well as support the ongoing development of digital innovations and apps that make The Times an experience you won't find anywhere else."

The technique, known as a paywall, is an increasingly popular strategy among conventional news outlets to find new sources of revenue with the collapse of classified advertising and explosion of online media.

The New York Times said in a statement online that "the change provides us with an opportunity to convince another segment of our audience that what The Times has to offer is worth paying for."

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'Lone wolf' terror suspect arrested in New York

New York (CNN) -- Authorities have arrested a man they claim was plotting to detonate pipe bombs in and around New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night.

The intended targets of Jose Pimentel, 27, were U.S. military personnel who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as U.S. postal facilities and police in New York and Bayonne, New Jersey, according to Bloomberg and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

The suspect was described by Bloomberg as an "al Qaeda sympathizer," though he is not believed to have ever worked with or received training from anyone in that terrorist organization.

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"There is no evidence he worked with anyone else," Bloomberg said. "He appears to be ... a lone wolf."

The police commissioner identified the suspect as a follower of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric who rose to become a top figure in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Pimental allegedly tried to contact al-Awlaki directly, but never got a response.

An unemployed native of the Dominican Republican who is a U.S. citizen, Pimentel had lived most of his life in Manhattan, except for five years in Schenectady, New York. He'd had been monitored by authorities since 2009 and his extreme positions "made even some of his like-minded friends nervous," said Kelly.

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