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Ponzi Scheme Mastermind, Sentenced To 150 Years, Dies In US Prison
Bernard L. Madoff, who died April 14 at 82, was the mastermind of perhaps the largest Ponzi scheme in history, a reviled symbol of Wall Street greed and, once, one of the most sought-after stockbrokers in high finance.
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Russia Touts Putin As Vaccinated Against Covid, But Offers No Photos
Russian authorities hope that President Vladimir Putin's long-awaited decision to get his first dose of a Russian coronavirus vaccine will help boost the country's inoculation rate, which has fallen short of initial targets.
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Trump's Campaign Manager Didn't Vote For Him
President Donald Trump's campaign manager didn't vote for his boss in the last presidential election. He didn't vote at all.The last time Bill Stepien voted, according to public records, was 2015 when he lived in New Jersey and was registered there.
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Facebook Removes Trump Campaign Ads With Symbol Once Used By Nazis
Facebook on Thursday deactivated dozens of ads placed by US President Donald Trump's reelection campaign that included a symbol once used by the Nazis to designate political prisoners in concentration camps.
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Watch: Rare Video Shows Seabird Using A Tool To Scratch An Itch
Five years ago, on a remote island in Wales, University of Oxford scientist Annette Fayet spied a puffin doing something she had never seen before. The bird, floating on the seawater beneath a cliff, held a stick in its beak. It began to scratch its back with the stick - the puffin, as Fayet watched, was using a tool.
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Former Nissan Head Carlos Ghosn, Facing Trial In Japan, Has Flown To Lebanon
Carlos Ghosn, the executive whose shocking arrest in Japan ended a more than two-decade run overseeing two of the world's largest automakers, left the country where he's awaited trial and is now in Lebanon, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Woman Who Died At 105 Left Behind $10 Million For Community Colleges
Money was scarce when Eva Gordon graduated from her Oregon high school, and attending college was not an option. But her fortune, amassed over decades of investing what little money she could scrape from her paychecks, will enable students at 17 community colleges to fulfill the dream that she had to forgo.
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"Help Me": McDonald's Staff Rush To Protect Woman Threatened By Boyfriend
The woman's boyfriend had threatened to kill her, police say.
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Trump Retweets, Then Deletes, Post Naming 'Whistleblower' In Impeachment
President Donald Trump retweeted and then deleted a post naming the alleged whistleblower who filed the complaint that became the catalyst for the congressional inquiry that resulted in his impeachment by the House of Representatives.
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He Survived One Of The Deadliest Diseases Known To Medicine. His Story
When they wheeled Preston Gorman into a light spring breeze outside the National Institutes of Health nearly five years ago, he was, medically speaking, among the most fortunate people on the planet.
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Temperature Tumbles To Minus 60 Degrees In Alaska
Bettles, Alaska hasn't climbed above 0 degrees in nearly 10 days. Sunday's high temperature was minus-47.
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On Land, Australia's Rising Heat Is 'Apocalyptic'. In Ocean, It's Worse.
Even before the ocean caught fever and reached temperatures no one had ever seen, Australia's ancient giant kelp was cooked.
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Our Job Is Like That Of A Surgeon's, Says UP Police To Foreign Media
When Sadaf Jafar headed out with hundreds of others last Thursday to join a protest against the contentious new citizenship law, she told her children she would be home that evening. She never made it back.
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Iranian Parents Jailed For Mourning Man Killed In Anti-Government Protest
Pouya Bakhtiari died 40 days ago Thursday, shot in the head, his family says, during the anti-government demonstrations that briefly swept through Iran in mid-November. This week, his family wanted to honor the 26-year-old in accordance with Shiite tradition, marking the 40th day of mourning with a commemoration.
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This Travel Insider Offers A Peek Behind The Scenes Of Amtrak Auto Train
Somewhere north of Orlando, Florida, and south of Georgia, Sylvia Longmire rotates her right forearm to reveal 15 rows of three-letter abbreviations inked onto her skin. I'd first glimpsed the tattoo while we were waiting to board the Amtrak Auto Train in Sanford, Florida. Several hours later, with nowhere to go and not much to see, I ask her for a...
