What life is like after police ransack your house and take ‘every belonging’ — then the charges are dropped

A self-described Michigan “soccer mom” who had “every belonging” taken from her family in a 2014 drug raid has been cleared of all criminal charges, 19 months after heavily armed drug task force members ransacked her home and her business. But in many ways, her ordeal is only beginning. Annette Shattuck and her husband, Dale, had been facing felony charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession with intent to manufacture marijuana and maintaining a drug house.
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Russian And German Soldiers Taken Prisoner

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View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America

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How to Hack an Election

Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time. By Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, and Andrew Willis.
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This Is Where Bad Bankers Go to Prison

Kviabryggja Prison in western Iceland doesn’t need walls, razor wire, or guard towers to keep the convicts inside. Alone on a wind-swept cape, the old farmhouse is bound by the frigid North Atlantic on one side and fields of snow-covered lava rock on another. To the east looms Snaefellsjokull, a dormant volcano blanketed by a glacier. There’s only one road back to civilization. This is where the world’s only bank chiefs imprisoned in connection with the 2008...
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9 Predictions 'Futurama' Got Right

Nearly two decades ago, a new TV show from the minds of the comedy geniuses that started The Simpsons premiered on Fox. Futurama told the story of a bumbling 20th century pizza delivery boy, named Philip J. Fry, who is cryogenically frozen for a thousand years and wakes up in a very different future. Futurama was nothing if not funny over its seven-season lifespan, which saw it cancelled on Fox and resurrected on Comedy Central for...
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Why Do the Feds Usually Try to Unlock Phones? It’s Drugs, Not Terrorism

Until the FBI backed down from its battle with Apple over accessing the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, it seemed the agency had chosen a near-perfect case on which to make its stand against encryption. By refusing to write software to help law enforcement crack Farook’s phone, Apple was made to look like it was defending an indefensible terrorist.
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