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Antiquities Expert Charged With Trafficking in Cambodian Artifacts – The New York Times
Prosecutors say Douglas A. J. Latchford, 88, a dealer in and collector of Southeast Asian antiquities, falsified documents to make looted treasures easier to sell on the art market. Investigators have charged Douglas A. J. Latchford, a leading expert on Khmer antiquities, with smuggling looted Cambodian relics and helping to …
$26 Million in Missing Paychecks, One Mysterious Swindler Charged – The New York Times
When MyPayrollHR shut down, thousands of companies and a quarter of a million workers were left in the lurch. Nicole Ingram was at the supermarket when she got a confusing text. Her payroll check for working as a nursing assistant in New Jersey, which had been deposited into her account, was being withdrawn. …
Stop! Don’t Charge Your Phone This Way – The New York Times
You might want to think twice before plugging in at an airport or on the train. A dead or dying phone or laptop is enough to send anybody on a mad dash to find a way to charge the device, but you might want to think twice before using that …
Return of the ring: stolen Oscar Wilde friendship band recovered – Reuters
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Oxford University said on Monday a golden ring given by Irish author Oscar Wilde to a close friend will be returned almost two decades after it was stolen from Magdalen College where he studied. Dutch art detective Arthur Brand recovered the ring and it will be handed …
Roger Stone’s Crimes | The New Yorker
Roger Stone is now a convicted felon, which is one honorific he had avoided during his decades of tumultuous public life. He was convicted on Friday of witness tampering and making false statements to the House Intelligence Committee, on an indictment obtained earlier this year by the office of the …
How Estonia became the drug-overdose capital of Europe – Daily chart
The country is in the grip of a deadly opioid epidemic ESTONIA HAS a lot going for it. The tiny Baltic state of 1.3m people has been touted as the most advanced digital society in the world; it boasts an adult literacy rate of 99.8%; it is sporty too, with …
If a 13-year-old murders a ten-year-old, is it a crime? – Daily chart
There is little international consensus about when young people should be punished under the law AT WHAT AGE does an illegal act by a child become a crime? A grisly murder in China has brought this question to the fore. Last month a 13-year-old boy in Dalian, a city in …
Oklahoma commutations: state to release 462 inmates on record day – Vox
The state’s Republican leaders are forging ahead with criminal justice reform. Oklahoma will release more than 460 prison inmates on Monday in what will amount to the largest single-day mass commutation of sentences in US history. The move, pushed by Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt and the Republican-controlled legislature, is part …
New study: Opioid crisis cost US economy $631B over 4 years
The opioid crisis cost the U.S. economy $631 billion from 2015 through last year — and it may keep getting more expensive, according to a study released Tuesday by the Society of Actuaries. The biggest driver of the cost over the four-year period is unrealized lifetime earnings of those who …
Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime – Daily chart
Dirty air may be even more dangerous than previously thought AIR POLLUTION is nothing to sniff at. Perhaps a third of all deaths from strokes, lung cancer and respiratory diseases can be linked to toxic air. In some cities, breathing outdoors is as dangerous as smoking 25 cigarettes a day. …
