Tag: crime stories
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Silicon Is Just Sand » Money, murder, and sadomasochism: A journey into the hidden world of the Los Angeles tech boom. August 29, 2015, is a hot night on Venice… more ›
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A Weekend in Chicago: Where Gunfire Is a Terrifying Norm » “The Newlywed Game” is on the television. Julia Rhoden, 53, is sitting on her bed, exhausted from another long… more ›
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The man who exposed the lie of the war on drugs » Roberto Saviano already lives under armed guard after writing about the Neapolitan mafia. more ›
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Roberto Saviano: London is heart of global financial corruption » Speaking at the Hay festival, the anti-mafia journalist said British financial services made the UK the world’s most corrupt nation… more ›
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Machine Bias » On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle… more ›
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El Salvador held hostage by gangs » Last year in El Salvador, more than one person in every 1,000 was killed, a figure more typical of a country at war.… more ›
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A Marine’s Convictions » That’s what Marine Maj. Mark Thompson declared the first time we met. He’d been fighting to prove it ever since two young women accused the former… more ›
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El Chapo Speaks » Disclosure: Some names have had to be changed, locations not named, and an understanding was brokered with the subject that this piece would be submitted for… more ›
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Sepp Blatter: how the great survivor won another term amid Fifa crisis To much of the outside world it will appear preposterous. from http://ift.tt/1FeZOxV more ›
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Mafia boss Pasquale Scotti arrested in Brazil after 31 years on the run After 31 years on the run, one of Italy’s most feared mafiosos has been arrested on a… more ›