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His Grisly Death Couldn’t Have Been Accidental. What Was It?

“There was no plausible way for a worker to accidentally fall into the vat.” So writes Amber Hunt for the Cincinnati Enquirer in a lengthy piece about the 1984 death of David Bocks. He worked—and died—at Ohio’s Fernald Feed Materials Productions Center, whose bland name masked the

One Inmate Not Getting Released: R. Kelly

R. Kelly has been denied release from prison for the second time amid the coronavirus pandemic. A federal judge acknowledged Tuesday that the virus was spreading in Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Kelly is awaiting trial for alleged sex crimes. Kelly’s lawyers noted an inmate

India says IMF liquidity boost may have costly side effects

India’s finance minister said on Thursday the country could not support a general allocation of new Special Drawing Rights by the International Monetary Fund because it might not be effective in easing coronavirus-driven financial pressures. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a statement to the IMF’s steering