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IRS Manual Details The DEA's Use Of Tips From Intelligence Agencies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual...
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America's Prisons Have Turned Into Really Awful Nursing Homes
America's prisons have an exploding population of old (and sick) prisoners who get shoddy medical care and often spend their last days behind bars, Emma Quail writes in the nonprofit investigative news...
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JPMorgan Faces A Criminal And Civil Justice Department Probe Over...
JPMorgan Chase disclosed on Wednesday that it faces a criminal and civil probe over whether the bank sold risky mortgage-backed securities to investors before the financial crisis, reports New York...
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Russian Man Who Got Bank To Sign Homemade Credit Card Contract Now Suing Them...
In 2008, Dmitry Agarkov received an unsolicited letter from Tinkoff Credit Systems (TCS) offering the 42-year-old Russian man a credit card with what he found to be unattractive rates.While most people...
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Texas Clarifies That It Discriminates Against Democratic Voters — Not Minorities
The state of Texas has a pretty amusing response to Attorney General Eric Holder's claims that the state's redistricting plans discriminate against minority voters.DOJ’s accusations of racial...
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Thieves Return Stolen Computers To Sexual Assault Nonprofit And Offer A...
Burglars in Southern California apparently had a change of heart after stealing from a nonprofit organization. The very next day, they returned the items and left an apology letter, NBC Los Angeles...
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Rihanna Sued For Allegedly Not Paying Grandma's Massive Funeral Bill
Rihanna was extremely close with her "Gran Gran Dolly," so when she passed away last June from cancer, the singer made sure to send her out in style.After her body was sent to Barbados for burial,...
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Colombia Is Using The Least Amount Of Land For Cocaine Production In Its...
The area of land used for producing cocaine in Colombia has fallen to its lowest level since experts started tracking the numbers, Bloomberg reports. In 2012 the amount of land used fell 25%.The...
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Professor Keeps His Job After It's Revealed That He Shot And Killed His...
Before last week, James St. James was best known as a well-respected psychology professor and department chair at Illinois' Millikin University.That has all changed now, following a report by the...
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Man Reportedly Kills His Wife And Posts Photo Of Her Dead Body To Facebook
A picture that appears to show a dead woman has been uploaded to Facebook by the woman's husband, also alleged to have been the killer, CBS Miami reports.The local CBS News affiliate reports that...
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Snowden Lies Low In Russia As Mystery Surrounding His Stay Endures
Somewhere on Russia's vast territory, reading books and awaiting the arrival of his father, lurks the US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, one of the most wanted individuals on the planet.But over a...
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Venezuelan Thieves Are Holding Women At Gunpoint To Steal Their Hair
A group of Venezuelan thieves that calls itself 'The Piranhas' has turned its attention away from purses and pocketbooks, by holding women at gunpoint in order to steal their hair.In Maracaibo,...
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Email Service Snowden Reportedly Used Shuts Down To 'Defend The Constitution'...
Journalists and activists received an email invitation from Edward Snowden for a briefing in Moscow last month. The email was sent from the account, edsnowden@lavabit.com, an invitee tells Forbes.Now...
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JURORS IN THE 'FABULOUS FAB' CASE: 'We Saw Goldman As The Bigger Problem'
Coverage of the Fabrice Tourre trial was stuffed with language about how the jury was either too bored or too stupid to really understand the case."Some members of the nine-person jury appeared to fall...
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Man Who Reportedly Posted Picture Of Dead Wife On Facebook Wrote Book About...
Derek Medina, the man who allegedly killed his wife and then posted a picture of her dead body to Facebook, appears to have written a book about marriage.The book is titled "How I Saved Someone's Life...
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12 Bizarre, Illegal Items That People Actually Tried To Smuggle
Hong Kong officials this week seized more than $5 million worth of illegal ivory, rhino horns, and leopard skins — a large and macabre haul of contraband.The illegal items were hidden in 21 crates on a...
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Judge Sides With Artist Who Photographed New Yorkers Through Their Windows
A Manhattan judge has backed the right of artist Arne Svenson to photograph his neighbors through their windows, according to The New York Post.Last May, New Yorkers were outraged when Svenson's images...
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Man Gets 30 Years In Prison For Trying To Blow Up The New York Fed Last Year
A 22-year-old Bangladeshi man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, the AP reports.Quazi Nafis pleaded guilty to terrorism charges after a...
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An Arizona City Is Refusing To Give Fallen Firefighter's Widow Full Benefits
A month after her husband and 18 other firefighters died tragically in a blaze that engulfed Yarnell, Ariz., Juliann Ashcraft is now fighting the city for salary and health benefits she says she's been...
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'Breaking Bad' Meth Should Be Yellow
The iconic blue methamphetamine created by Walter White on the AMC show Breaking Bad should have been yellow, chemist Donna Nelson, a researcher at the University of Oklahoma and the show's science...
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