| Kushner flap: A brief history of back channels Posted: 30 May 2017 02:07 PM PDT ![Kushner flap: A brief history of back channels]( "Kushner flap: A brief history of back channels") Is this a read-out of from one of Jared Kushner's meetings with a Russian during the presidential transition of 2016 and 2017? What it shows is that clandestine back channels between adversaries have been common diplomatic tools. In terms of any back-channel communications between Trump officials and Russia, "the issue at stake here is what is the purpose and to what extent is that purpose kept secret from one's own government?" says Brian Balogh, an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and co-host of the "BackStory" history podcast.
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| How data-crunching is cutting down on massive health-care fraud Posted: 30 May 2017 01:06 PM PDT ![How data-crunching is cutting down on massive health-care fraud]( "How data-crunching is cutting down on massive health-care fraud") "No other reporter has ever seen this," he says, tapping out a command on his computer keyboard. "Your standard pharmacy that is just billing Medicare is going to be $300,000 to $1.5 million," Cohen says. Not long ago, it would have taken an entire squad of health-care fraud investigators a decade worth of shoe leather to connect all the dots and compile such a list, Cohen says.
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| With few memories of Biafra War, young Nigerians renew calls for independence Posted: 30 May 2017 11:57 AM PDT ![With few memories of Biafra War, young Nigerians renew calls for independence]( "With few memories of Biafra War, young Nigerians renew calls for independence") When Nigeria's brutal Biafran War ended in 1970, Sopuru Amah's birth was still more than two decades away. The only knowledge the 22-year-old college student has of the war comes filtered through memoir and memory – the stories he has read and those he has heard from parents and relatives who survived the three-year civil conflict, which killed more than a million people between 1967 and 1970.
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| Another year, another vote. Is democracy burning out Brits? Posted: 30 May 2017 09:20 AM PDT ![Another year, another vote. Is democracy burning out Brits?]( "Another year, another vote. Is democracy burning out Brits?") Houda Salehi knows she should vote in Britain's June 8 general election. "I will try to vote, but I'm just not even sure what I am voting for and why," says Ms. Salehi at British Library plaza in central London on a recent day. Recommended: Keep calm and answer on: Take our United Kingdom quiz.
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