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Whorlton Hall: Hospital abuse missed despite at least 100 official visits

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionUndercover BBC filming shows staff swearing, mocking and taunting patients with autism and learning disabilities Whorlton Hall hospital had at least 100 visits by official agencies in the year before abuse of inpatients there was discovered, the BBC has learned. Inspectors, council officials and NHS staff all

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How Convicts Ordered to Stay Offline Try to Slip Their Digital Leashes

When John Walker Lindh, a California man, was sentenced in 2002 for helping the Taliban, neither Facebook nor YouTube existed. If you had a cellphone — and only about 60 percent of Americans did — it was probably a flip phone. Before Mr. Lindh was released from prison on Thursday, his probation officer asked the

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Bernie Sanders, No Longer the Front-Runner, Brings Campaign Home to Vermont

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Senator Bernie Sanders returned to his home state on Saturday for the first time since he declared in February that he was running for president again, displaying the uncompromisingly liberal defiance that many of those in the audience have been hearing for decades. Under overcast skies, Mr. Sanders lamented big corporations, argued

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Beware of Credit ‘Repair’ Companies, Consumer Watchdogs Say

People struggling with loan payments and falling credit scores may be tempted to seek a quick fix. But they should be wary of so-called credit repair companies that promise to scrub credit files and improve credit scores for a fee, consumer watchdogs say. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed suit this month against Lexington Law

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