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13 Sep 2019, 00:55

China secretly abducted a university president on a trip through Germany and convicted him in sham trial. Two years on, he may be executed.

Ng Han Guan / Associated Press In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences are ...

10 Sep 2019, 20:29

15 weird US laws you may be surprised to know exist

Netflix One common Netflix habit is illegal in Tennessee - but might be hard to actually enforce on the minor level. Some laws were written decades a...

10 Sep 2019, 02:38

Epstein bombarded Bill Gates with calls and contacts to score a meeting with the billionaire a year before his $2 million donation to MIT

Yana Paskova/Getty Images Bill Gates speaks ahead of former U.S. President Barack Obama at the Gates Foundati...

07 Sep 2019, 23:54

Bill Gates made donations to MIT through Jeffrey Epstein -here are all of the tech mogul's connections to the financier

John Lamparski/Getty Images, Associated Press Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein Microsoft founder, philanthropist, ...

04 Sep 2019, 21:58

Hong Kong's leader says she'll withdraw the controversial extradition bill. Protest leaders say it's 'too little, too late'

Tyrone Siu / REUTERS An anti-extradition bill protester is detained by riot police during a protest outside M...

01 Sep 2019, 07:04

Police footage from 2005 reportedly shows Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion littered with massage chairs and nude pictures of young women

Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday evening on charges of sex traffic...

31 Aug 2019, 04:08

It took Twitter longer to secure Jack Dorsey's account from hackers than it would for a nuclear missile to travel around the world - and that should terrify you

AP Images; Reuters Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was hacked on Friday. The ...

30 Aug 2019, 05:00

We still don't know if Jeffrey Epstein's money is floating around Silicon Valley, but several top venture capital firms say they've never accepted funds from the disgraced financier

Reuters Jeffrey Epstein Following reports that Jeffrey Epstein helped fund an i...

28 Aug 2019, 01:51

Only 33% of Americans believe that Jeffrey Epstein actually died by suicide

Richard Drew/AP, New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP Jeffrey Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10. O...

28 Aug 2019, 00:41

More than 20 Jeffrey Epstein accusers gave emotional testimony in court as federal prosecutors motioned to dismiss the sex trafficking indictment against the deceased financier

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Lawyer David Boies arrives with his client Virginia G...

18 Aug 2019, 23:02

Epstein's lawyers got Manhattan prosecutors to argue for a lower sex offender status in 2010, and the NYPD never required him to check in, according to report

Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images Billionaire Jef...

17 Aug 2019, 22:17

Epstein used his jail bed sheet to commit suicide by hanging while his guards slept, according to report

Reuters FILE PHOTO: Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photo taken for the NY Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender ...

17 Aug 2019, 19:00

The CEO of a company that calls itself 'the future of law' says she still can't escape sexism at work - but she's on a mission to prove mentorship can break the glass ceiling

Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Elena Donio of Axiom Elena Donio helms legal-ta...

14 Aug 2019, 02:49

Google reportedly has a massive culture problem that's destroying it from the inside

Katie Canales/Business Insider Google has been struggling with internal and external criticism across the last several years...

13 Aug 2019, 05:19

Facebook warns its marketing partners against scraping after a startup was caught saving millions of users' data

Zach Gibson/Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Facebook is warning its marketing partners against illi...

11 Aug 2019, 06:42

Federal prosecutors confirm that the Epstein sex trafficking investigation will continue despite his death

Associated Press United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman speaks during a news conferenc...

11 Aug 2019, 00:41

'He had the misfortune to be a wealthy man in the #metoo era': Epstein's lawyer blames prosecutors, jailers, judge, and reporters for his client's death

Associated Press In this courtroom sketch, defendant Jeffrey Epstein, second fr...

03 Aug 2019, 03:06

The US government is testing surveillance balloons that could track multiple vehicles from 65,000 feet

via US Air Force The Lockheed U-2, a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. The United States military is testing a new form...

27 Jul 2019, 19:35

Facebook was once a hot startup looking to conquer the world. Today, my journalist friends in the Philippines grapple with threats and lies on the social network

Thomson Reuters Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Facebook was once a startu...

26 Jul 2019, 00:03

Amazon requires police departments to advertise Ring home security products to residents in return for free Ring cameras

Spencer Platt/Getty Images A secret agreement between Amazon's Ring smart home security company and a Florida...

03 Jun 2019, 23:41

The DOJ will police Apple in the federal government's new surge in tech antitrust enforcement

Getty Apple CEO Tim Cook In what's been a tidal wave of potential tech antitrust action, Apple has been added to the list of...

28 May 2019, 22:47

A laptop infected with 6 of the most dangerous computer viruses in history was sold at auction to an anonymous buyer for $1.345 million - here's what each virus can do

thepersistenceofchaos.com A laptop that's utterly infested with six of the wors...

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A former US soldier linked to the Ukrainian far right is accused of robbing and murdering couple for money to fly to Venezuela

Uber's investigations unit reportedly protects the company before riders

US attorneys reportedly knew that Jeffrey Epstein didn't qualify for Florida jail work release where he allegedly abused women