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NSA evidence may be key to Hammarskjold mystery death

"America's National Security Agency may hold crucial evidence about one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the Cold War — the cause of the 1961 plane crash which killed United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, a commission of prominent jurists says. Widely considered the U.N.'s most effective chief, Hammarskjold died as he was attempting to bring peace to the newly independent Congo. It's long been rumored that his DC-6 plane was shot down, and an independent commission set up to evaluate new evidence surrounding his death on Monday recommended a fresh investigation — citing radio intercepts held by the NSA as the possible key to solving the case." Continue reading →

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What it costs to raise a royal baby

"How much does it cost to live like a prince these days? William earns £35,000 ($54,000) or so as a helicopter air-sea rescue pilot for the Royal Air Force. More importantly, he is also supported by his father, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, who has an annual income of about £19 million ($29 million), essentially real-estate income from the 133,000-acre Duchy of Cornwall estate. William and Harry also jointly inherited around £17 million ($26 million), before tax, from their mother’s estate. But for all American rubberneckers, here’s some good news. You could probably live like a prince for a lot less than that. Here’s where you’ll spend your money." Continue reading →

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Scotland Yard investigates Diana slay plot as book details conspiracy

"The Increment’s operatives — drawn from the SAS and the Royal Navy’s Special Boat Service — had someone ride ahead of Fayed’s and Diana’s Mercedes in a white Fiat, and to cause the car to careen into the tunnel’s cement sides and pillars by shining a strobe light into the chauffeur’s eyes, Power said. 'The attack on Diana in the tunnel mirrored almost exactly a plot described by ex-SAS/MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson that Witness A from the inquests had concocted, when they served together as MI6 agents. This plot was hatched to murder Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Serbia,' Power told The Post." Continue reading →

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Researchers demand sealed files about JFK assassination be made public

"Fifty years after the assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, researchers are still investigating his mysterious murder. Thousands of pages pertaining to the assassination are still sealed, and researchers are calling for a complete public release. The first official investigation found that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone, after failing to get a visa to Cuba and his wife Marina rejected his attempts at reconciliation. Another investigation in the mid-1970s said that the assassination was probably a conspiracy, after discovering audio files suggesting a second shooter." Continue reading →

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Judge orders trial in allegedly missing Oklahoma City bombing video case

"A Salt Lake attorney who contends the FBI is hiding surveillance video associated with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing might see his case go trial. At issue is whether the FBI adequately responded to Trentadue's Freedom of Information Act request for footage of Timothy McVeigh parking a truckload of explosives at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. Trenatdue claims the video will reveal a second bombing suspect who resembles but is not his brother. [The judge] has chastised U.S. Department of Justice several times for not producing the tapes since Trentadue sued in 2008." Continue reading →

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Bloggers expose lavish lifestyles of Putin loyalists

"Bloggers who oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin are targeting top lawmakers loyal to the Kremlin with scandalous revelations about their luxury apartments and jet-setting lifestyles which run counter to their patriotic rhetoric. Top lawmakers and officials are obliged to declare property and income annually in a corruption-busting initiative proposed by Dmitry Medvedev under his presidency, but bloggers and investigative reporters have highlighted their undeclared wealth and assets." Continue reading →

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Chelsea Clinton’s $10M digs at Madison Square

"Chelsea Clinton is buying a $10.5 million spread right across the street from Madison Square Park, sources told The Post yesterday. The former first daughter and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, signed a contract for the massive, 5,000-square-foot pad at The Whitman last month, the sources said. Last week, ex-President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toured the apartment, graciously posing for photographs with the hard hats who were working at the building. Chelsea, 33, and Marc, 35, 'live in the neighborhood and found the building on their own while out walking,' a source said." Continue reading →

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Where Bank Regulators Go to Get Rich

"Mary Schapiro, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, must take us for fools. Four months after leaving the SEC, Schapiro is joining a firm stuffed to the gills with former government financial-services regulators peddling their knowledge of Washington’s regulatory thicket to the banks and financial-services companies they once oversaw. Promontory, founded in 2001 by Eugene Ludwig, a former comptroller of the currency, has become a sort of mini-version of Fannie Mae in its heyday. About 100 of the 400 Promontory employees are former Washington regulators." Continue reading →

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The Talented Mr. Lew

"Some guys have it, and some don’t. I’m referring to that special quality that makes powerful institutions want to throw fistfuls of dollars at them in senseless acts of high-priced beneficence. Jack Lew has it like nobody’s business. You might think the bespectacled treasury-secretary nominee is just another brainy budget wonk and miss the animal magnetism that makes his employers lose all sense of financial proportion around him, paying him astronomical sums, forgiving his loans, and granting him generous golden parachutes. Yes, Jack Lew is a rare talent — at the art of getting paid." Continue reading →

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The Best U.S. Metros for Recent College Grads Looking for Work

"Across the nation's 50 largest metro areas, there were 15.8 million jobs in these fast-growing, highly educated fields as of 2013. New York leads with more than 66,000 openings, roughly ten percent of the total. L.A. is second with 39,508. That makes sense: N.Y. and L.A. are America's two largest metros. Together, they in fact account for nearly 3 million of these positions, nearly one in five of these estimated fast-growing, highly-educated jobs across the nation. Once we look beyond these two largest metros, the pattern diverges a bit from the size of a metro's population. Greater Washington, D.C., has the third largest number of estimated openings, 39,259." Continue reading →

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