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NYT: US attorney leading Russia probe investigating whether US intelligence agencies hid information Barack Obama

NYT: US attorney leading Russia probe investigating whether US intelligence agencies hid information

Washington (CNN)The federal prosecutor leading the probe into the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation might be pursuing a basis to accuse former US intelligence officials who served under former President Barack Obama of hiding intelligence about Russia's election interference, according to The New York Times.The Times reported that John Durham, the US…
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February 14, 2020
An inside look at the debate around pandemic bonds, which have $425 million hinging on how deadly the coronavirus ends up being Pandemic

An inside look at the debate around pandemic bonds, which have $425 million hinging on how deadly the coronavirus ends up being

AP Images / Kin CheungInvestors holding the World Bank's pandemic bonds stand to either reap massive profits or lose hundreds of millions of dollars, depending on the coronavirus outbreak's lethality. The instruments offer higher-than-average returns, but bondholders will lose their principal in the event of a qualifying pandemic. If certain…
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February 14, 2020
Mike Bloomberg in 2014: “We Should Hope” the NSA Is “Reading Every Email” Times Square

Mike Bloomberg in 2014: “We Should Hope” the NSA Is “Reading Every Email”

In October 2014, on a stage in San Francisco in front of a live audience, Katie Couric asked Mike Bloomberg whether he had ever “sexted on Snapchat.” The former New York City mayor, speaking alongside Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, joked that he “couldn’t…
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February 14, 2020
Friendly rivals Hampton and Norfolk State unravel history together 1619 Slavery

Friendly rivals Hampton and Norfolk State unravel history together

As a historically black institution of higher learning, Norfolk State University teaches students their history, including slavery, as they pursue career tracks such as business, engineering and technology. Founded in 1935, the school is adding the country's first master’s program in cyberpsychology this year — something that faculty members see as another tool in the educational arsenal for teaching African…
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February 14, 2020