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Learn how a Cold Case Investigator evaluates Eye Witness testimony and how rarely do Eye witness stories agree
Very interesting how there might be multiple eye witnesses in an investigation and how most of the time they have different stories of how it all went down.
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Hillary Clinton's email could become a criminal matter
Hillary Clinton may face a criminal investigation by the Justice Department over her use of a private email address while she was secretary of state, according to a report. The New York Times said late on Thursday that two inspectors general had asked for the investigation. Revelations that the Democratic presidential hopeful used a private email account on a server hosted in her home in Chappaqua...
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Jehovah's Witnesses did not report 1,000 child abusers, inquiry hears
Royal commission told witness known as BCG would give evidence that her father’s sexual abuse did not appear to qualify as ‘wrongdoing’ to the church.
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Driverless MBTA train carrying 50 travels through 4 Boston stops
A six-car train with passengers on board left a suburban Boston transit station without a driver Thursday and went through four stations without stopping. Secretary of Transportation Stephanie Pollack said Thursday that before the train left the Braintree station, the operator got off the train to execute a procedure that allows it to travel if there is a signal problem. Operator error is the current focus of the investigation.
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The tube at a standstill: why TfL stopped people walking up the escalators
It’s British lore: on escalators, you stand on the right and walk on the left. So why did the London Underground ask grumpy commuters to stand on both sides? And could it help avert a looming congestion crisis? On 4 December last year, the London Underground ingested 4,821,000 passengers and spat them out at their destinations, and in doing so set a new record for a single day. If you paused to contemplate this for a moment, you might think...
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Martin Shkreli Invokes Fifth in Refusing to Give Records to Lawmakers
Martin Shkreli, reviled former chief executive officer at Turing Pharmaceuticals, has invoked the Fifth Amendment in refusing to produce documents subpoenaed by a Senate committee investigating drug-pricing practices, the panel's chairwoman said Wednesday. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said on Twitter that the investigation by the Senate Special Committee on Aging could be hindered without Shkreli's cooperation.
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Woman found dead in elevator 30 days after power cut off by building workers
A building maintenance crew has been detained after a woman was found dead inside an elevator that had its power improperly cut off 30 days earlier, local Chinese authorities have said. The Gaoling district government in the north-western city of Xi’an, Shaanxi province, said on Saturday that two maintenance workers turned off the power source on 30 January in a residential building after they were called to check on a glitch.
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Internal Data Offers Glimpse At Uber Sex Assault Complaints
According to data provided by Uber to BuzzFeed News, the company received five claims of rape, and “fewer than” 170 claims of sexual assault directly related to an Uber ride as inbound tickets to its customer service database between December 2012 and August 2015. Uber provided these numbers as a rebuttal to screenshots obtained by BuzzFeed News. The images which were provided by a former Uber customer...
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Kellogg's 'Shocked And Outraged' By Video Showing Man Urinating On Factory Conveyor Belt
A disturbing video that may have originated in Michigan is creating a buzz online. The 47-second clip, which was posted at WorldStarUncut.com, appears to show a man urinating on a conveyor belt at the Kellogg’s facility in Battle Creek. Toward the end of the video — sent to WWJ Newsradio 950 by a listener who asked not to be identified — the man pans the camera upward to show a sign with a Kellogg’s logo.
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Deep Secrets and the Thrill of Discovery
On the trail of a dangerous revelation about a Nobel Prize-winning dissident, the biologist Sean B. Carroll rediscovers the rush of an unexpected discovery.
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Isaac Newton Was the World’s Original Counterfeiter Cop
Here’s the story of how the famous physicist played detective to capture his era’s most notorious currency faker. By Ian Steadman.
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The Bizarre Death of Elisa Lam
What happened in that hotel?
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Saint Sulpice and the Symbolism of the Priory of Sion
What if some of the most haunting symbolism of the twentieth century was the invention of a shadowy figure who pirated innocuous images from a famous church in order to construct the mythos of a secret society? By Andrew Gough.
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How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes
The charity paid millions in federal stimulus funds to developers shortly after longtime tenants were pushed out. “We are spending federal money to throw low-income New Yorkers out of buildings,” wrote a Habitat whistleblower. By Marcelo Rochabrun.
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Ghost Boat
An open investigation into the disappearance of 243 men, women and children. Where are they? And why does nobody know?
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This Industry Helps Chinese Cheat their Way into & through US Colleges
A cheating ring at the University of Iowa demonstrates the damage being done by a booming Chinese cottage industry to the U.S. higher education system.
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The unending quest of the Hoax Slayer
For 13 years, Brett Christensen has been a committed professional debunker. This balding, bearded, soft-spoken, and serious man of 53 years has devoted himself to fighting the tide of online misinformation—the kind of scams, frauds, and hoaxes that used to spread from one inbox to the next but today move with alarming speed… By Andrew McMillen.
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Primo Levi’s Handrail
“I have no wish for one outcome rather than another—it makes no difference to the value of Levi’s work. But a cool examination of the evidence shows that suicide is not beyond reasonable doubt.” By Diego Gambetta. (June 9, ’16)
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Body on the Moor
Why did this man travel 200 miles to die here? By Jon Manel.
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MH-17: Two Years of Anti-Russian Propaganda
Two years ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine killing 298 people and opening an inviting path for a propaganda campaign toward a new Cold War with Russia, writes Robert Parry.
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