A.M. Links: Philip Seymour Hoffman Dead, Yellen To Be Sworn in as Fed Chair, EU Commissioner Calls Corruption Across the EU ‘Breathtaking’

• Academy Award-winning actor
  Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan
  apartment yesterday. Unnamed law enforcement officials told the
  Associated Press that Hoffman is believe to have died from a drug
  overdose.
• 
  Janet Yellen will be sworn in as the Chairwoman of the Federal
  Reserve today.
• European Union Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem has
  said that
  corruption across the E.U. is “breathtaking.”
• Al Qaeda claims that it has no ties to the
  Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, which has been fighting
  rebel groups in Syria.
• Today is the deadline for top aides to New Jersey Governor
  
  Chris Christie to reply to subpoenas made by legislators
  investigating lane closures between Fort Lee and the George
  Washington Bridge.
• The recent
  election in Thailand has done little to end the political
  stalemate. 

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