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US Corps Claim Billions In Assets In Cuba And Now They'll Want It Back
When the Castro regime assumed power in Cuba in 1959, it quickly nationalized the assets of almost every foreign corporation within its borders as the country transitioned to communism. For half a century now, American companies have laid claim to billions of dollars in lost assets on the Caribbean island 90 miles from U.S. shores. Under American law, the claims have been steadily accruing interest, but the companies have never seen a penny.
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Obama Moves To Restore Cuba Relations, Prompts Spike In Cuba-Focused Fund
The holdings inside Herzfeld's Cuba fund rose nowhere near as much as the fund itself on Wednesday, putting it at a significant premium to its underlying assets.
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Ferguson Won’t Heal
Here, on the streets of Ferguson and St. Louis, you can already feel the rest of the world forgetting. Today, President Obama will hold in Washington a series of Ferguson-related meetings. He will meet with local law enforcement leaders, faith leaders, and focus on working together to “build trust to strengthen neighborhoods across the country.”...
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How Chicago's red light ticketing turned yellow lights into cash
Confronted with questions about a flurry of red light camera tickets stamped with yellow times below the 3-second minimum, Mayor Rahm Emanuel 's administration said the fluctuation of hundredths of a second was normal — imperceptible to anyone behind the wheel of a car.
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The extraordinary 'theft' of a woman's NYC home
It’s a case of grand theft house. A Manhattan woman claims an ex-con stole her family home in Queens by filing a phony deed with the city and moving in. Now Jennifer Merin is battling in court...
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The Real Reason It's Nearly Impossible to End the Cuba Embargo
Bill Clinton tried engaging Castro. After Havana shot down two U.S. planes, it all fell apart.
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The Man Who Smuggles Traders Joe’s into Canada
Michael "Pirate Joe" Hallatt and his unmarked white van are Canada's number-one supplier of Trader Joe's items. And, so far, Trader Joe's hasn't been able to stop him.
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Bermuda, The Shipwreck Capital of the World
IT’S an area shrouded in mystery with stories of unexplained disappearances and strange happenings. So its no wonder that Bermuda is also home to one of the biggest shipwreck sites in the world.
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9 questions about Detroit's bankruptcy you were too embarrassed to ask
Feel like you're behind the news on Detroit? Catch up with our explainer.
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BP Found Grossly Negligent in 2010 Spill; Fines May Rise
BP Plc acted with gross negligence in setting off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a federal judge ruled, handing down a long-awaited decision that may force the energy company to pay billions of dollars more for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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America’s painkiller nightmare: Legal drugs are laying waste to our families and friends
Each year, 15,000 people die from prescription opiate overdoses. And the stigma of addiction is making it worse
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Drought leaves up to 2.81 mln hungry in Central America - U.N.
A severe drought has ravaged crops in Central America and as many as 2.81 million people are struggling to feed themselves, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, though the region's coffee crop has been largely unscathed. The drought, which is also affecting South America, has been particularly hard on the so-called "dry corridor" of Central America, which includes southern Guatemala, northern Honduras and western El Salvador.
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The 10 Most Common City Names in the United States | SelfStorage.com Storage Tips
If you had to guess, what do you think the most common city name in the United States would be? Springfield was our best guess, but we where surprised to find out what the actual number one was, and how many times it showed up across the country (32!).
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So Ferguson happened: Now what, America?
Black town. White cops. Somewhere here in Ferguson, Missouri, U.S.A., is the slippery idea of community. An idea, if you think about it, we've never really reached at all.
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Dollar Tree to buy Family Dollar for $8.5 billion
Discount store chain Dollar Tree Inc said it would buy rival Family Dollar Stores Inc for about $8.5 billion, creating North America's biggest discount retailer.Shares of Family Dollar.
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Everyone line up: Canada's tradition of orderly queuing ‘foreign and strange’ to many newcomers
From Russia to China to Italy to the Middle East, billions of people are genuinely confused by English-speaking peoples' penchant to form into queues
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Dismembered Body Found in Mexico Is Missing US Traveler Harry Devert
Devert had quit his job to ride a motorcycle from the US to the World Cup in Brazil. But he disappeared in a dangerous region of Mexico.
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Nicaragua approves route for $40 billion canal linking oceans
A Nicaraguan committee approved a proposed route on Monday for a $40 billion shipping channel across the Central American country that would compete with the Panama Canal. The committee of government officials, businessmen and academics approved a 172 mile route from the mouth of the Brito river on the Pacific side to the Punto Gorda river on the Caribbean that was proposed by executives from the HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co Ltd.
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Rescuers free 3 trapped Honduran miners, 8 still missing
Rescuers freed three miners on Friday who had been trapped by a landslide at an illegal gold mine in southern Honduras, but eight more remained unaccounted for as the search moved into its second day. The workers were trapped when the entrance to the mine in San Juan Arriba collapsed on Wednesday. Officials said the mine, 70 miles (110 km) south of the Central American nation's capital Tegucigalpa, had been ordered to close a few months ago because it was unsafe.
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The 11 dumbest things that 30 percent of Americans believe
On Monday, it came to the attention of the Daily Dot’s editorial staff that more than 30 percent of Americans pronounce the word “meme” as “me-me” - a statistic that seems to jibe with a study that claimed that 30 percent of Americans don’t have home access to broadband Internet. Still, it got us thinking: What other misinformation does roughly a third of this great nation believe? The answers, we soon found out, are as disheartening as they are stupid. Get ready to rage.
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