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The Feds Actually Expect Wall Street Bankers to Police Themselves

09.26.17

By David Dayen
News

Seven Major Banks Pay Chump Change to Settle Lawsuit Over Lucrative Scheme

05.04.16

By VICE News and Reuters
Is US Attorney General Eric Holder Ready to Put Wall Street Bankers in Jail?

07.15.14

By Matt Taylor
The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis

08.22.13

By Greg Palast

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Life

Scientists Captured the Explosive Birth of a Solar Flare on Video

Researchers have finally caught a major solar flare in the act of being born. And even better, they got the entire thing on video.

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By Luis Prada
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Life

Ancient Kangaroos Were Absolutely Humongous, But They Could Still Hop

These kangaroo behemoths, covered in muscles, were theoretically roughly as springy as modern-day kangaroos.

43 minutes ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination

Scientists call them “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures

2 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Entertainment

Uh Oh. Did Shinsuke Nakamura Just Reveal When AJ Styles Is Retiring From WWE?

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By Haley Miller
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Alaska’s Beluga Whales Have Wild Sex Lives—and It Keeps Them Alive

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By Luis Prada