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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Benita Alexander was promised a wedding in Italy officiated by the pope. • 24 min read How TV producer unknowingly became ensnared in fraudulent romance “It was this very intricate, slow, meticulous weaving of this web of lies,” Benita Alexander said, “You’re so caught up in it, you don’t really realize what’s happening.”Benita Alexander Hundreds of Benita Alexander's friends and family had already bought their plane tickets to Italy to attend her extravagant wedding that was supposed to be off...

Hundreds of Benita Alexander's friends and family had already bought their plane tickets to Italy to attend her extravagant wedding that was supposed to be officiated by the pope when it all came crashing down in a flurry of her fiancé's deception. None of the promises Alexander said her fiancé Paolo Macchiarini had made for their wedding day would come true. As Alexander began to unravel the web of lies Macchiarini had told her, she began to wonder if the world-renowned thoracic surgeon had also misled people in his professional life. "As furious as it makes me what he did [to me and] my ...

Executive Summary Espionage poses a threat to national security and the private property rights of Americans. The government should address the threat of espionage in a manner whereby the benefits of government actions taken to reduce it outweigh the costs of those actions. To aid in that goal, this policy analysis presents the first combined database of all identified spies who targeted both the U.S. government and private organizations on U.S. soil. This analysis identifies 1,485 spies on American soil who, from 1990 through the end of 2019, conducted state or commercial espionage. Of tho...

The National. "I bought a few puts worth $16 last week on Interactive Brokers. That would protect me if the stock fell below $90. On Monday, the stock tumbled, so the protection made me money.” GameStop, which has been the poster child for Redditors looking to squeeze short sellers, fell 60 per cent on Tuesday and eased another 5 per cent in after-hours trading, with shares closing below $100 for the first time in a week. Several other Reddit favourites, including movie theatre chain AMC Entertainment Holdings, also tumbled. GameStop shares erased more than $27 billion in market value after...

Last modified on Thu 4 Feb 2021 17.10 EST Boris Johnson has been urged to act after two more Conservative MPs were linked to figures spreading Covid conspiracy theories or making discredited claims. Last week it emerged that Desmond Swayne, a former Tory minister, encouraged anti-lockdown street protesters to “persist” and suggested NHS capacity figures were being “manipulated” to exaggerate the impact of the virus. Questions are now being asked about the judgment of a further two MPs: Andrew Bridgen – who defended Swayne in an interview on the YouTube channel of a controversial for...