Out of the media’s eyeshot Russia is cleaning up Dagestan, a southern republic where little happened until two years ago when the alleged Boston bombers spent some time there. Coincidence?
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The White House refused to send a witness to the Senate’s first open hearing on the issue despite President Barack Obama’s vow to be more forthcoming about a counterterrorism weapon that has become a despised symbol of U.S. foreign policy in many parts of the world.
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Two Saudi nationals were injured by Monday’s twin blasts in Boston and are currently being hospitalized at the city’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. One of the injured is a 20-year-old man whose name has not been disclosed, while the other is an unnamed exchange student.
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Family members of those killed in the massace at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year were seated near the site of the first of the two coordinated explosions at the Boston Marathon Monday, adding more heartbreak to the already tragic day.
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Speaking with CNN’s Carol Costello, Newtown resident Andrew Paley explained that many of the town’s parents are upset with the show for not notifying them that this episode would be airing so soon after the assault that left 20 children and six school staffers dead.
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Treasury ignored its own guidelines and gave raises to the top executives “as requested by the companies,” with more cash and less long-term incentive-based pay.
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In Bair’s book, Geithner symbolizes everything that was wrong with the government’s approach to financial regulation and crisis resolution. She finds him at least partly to blame, during his tenure atop the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, for letting the banks run wild.
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The Chicago Federal Reserve paper, How to Keep Markets Safe in the Era of High-Speed Trading, prattled of a laundry list of the most recent high frequency trading debacles including Knight Capital as well as others. Yet in spite of these increasingly frequent stock market disasters, even basic risk controls are not implemented. Why? They claim it would slow down their trading systems.
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Valerie Plame, the Bush-bashing ex-CIA operative at the heart of the Scooter Libby controversy, published a Huffington Post piece titled “Why Is the U.S. Government Bullying an American Hero?” in which she absolutely excoriated the White House for its treatment of the Osama bin Laden raid autobiographer.
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Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder, has sharply criticised the government’s so-called “snooper’s charter”, which will track the internet, text and email use of all British citizens, as “technologically incompetent”.
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