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Ex-Barclays director is arrested for insider trading

An ex director or the Wall Street financial behemoth, Barclays Investment Bank, was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday and charged with insider trading and providing illegal tips. It turns out that Steven McClatchey, 58, needed some plumbing work done. Instead of paying a plumber with money, like normal people do, McClatchey decided to trade …

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Where have all of the mini-golf courses gone?

What has happened to the worn green carpeting and the dinosaurs? What has happened to the little foot bridges and those frustrating lighthouses and windmills? It seems that the miniature golf course has begun to vanish from the American landscape much as the Drive In movie theaters of old have vanished into history. But, why? …

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New report reveals that there are 46 million slaves in the world

It is something that people just can’t seem to wrap their brains around. It is inconceivable to most that such a thing as slavery could exist in our modern 21st Century world. The sad fact, however, is that it does and a new report released this week bears all of that out. On Tuesday, the …

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Islamic State has begun to sell women as sex slaves online

  The Islamic State has begun taking to selling captured women as sex slaves in an apparent desperate attempt to raise money for their operations. The women, some as young as 18, and perhaps even younger, had begun to appear on the organization’s Facebook page. Women are seen being encouraged to smile in their photos …

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Search continues for Japanese child left in the woods as punishment

  On Monday, police and rescue workers continued to search a vast forest in northern Japan for a little seven year old boy who was abandoned there by his parents nearly three days ago. The little boy, Yamato Tano-oka, had suddenly gone missing after his parents had left him in the forest in an effort …

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