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Angelo Falcón on Dominican actress Zoë Saldaña’s new movie, Colombiana. As I sat before my computer at home in Brooklyn, New York awaiting certain destruction with the advent of Hurricane Irene, I decided to devote what could be one of my few remaining days by joining the exclusively obscure and gloriously pointless Boricua Film Club…

In San Francisco, Drug Overdoses Claimed Twice as Many Lives as COVID-19 More than twice as many people died from accidental drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2020 than from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, according to preliminary data released by the city’s office of the Chief Medical Examiner. A total of 713 people died from drug overdoses in the city in 2020 compared to 255 who died from the CCP virus, commonly known as the coronavirus. Nationwide, the largest increase in the nu...

United States 1933 Double Eagle $20 Gold Coin The 1933 double eagle $20 gold coin is one of American Numismatics’ most notorious coins. Only one surviving specimen was ever monetized and made legal to own, yet an uncertain number of examples still exist. When the United States made the controversial decision in 1933 to suspend the gold standard that it had based its monetary policy on since the turn of the 20th century, most double eagles dated that year were summarily melted down. It was a...

Updated: Share Article AAA Over four years after the demonetisation exercise, the CBI has booked the executive manager of a bank, three firm proprietors and two persons for depositing ₹12.84 crore in banned currency which was later transferred to different accounts through net banking as legitimate money, officials said. Based on “source information” received on December 10 last year, the CBI filed an FIR stating Rahul Chaudhary and Dushyant Chaudhary were operating accounts of Shiva Tra...