Mexicans Aren’t Buying Official Account of ‘El Chapo’ Escape - The New York Times

Mexicans Aren’t Buying Official Account of ‘El Chapo’ Escape - The New York Times:



"MEXICO CITY — When Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, escaped from prison last month, he walked out of captivity and straight into the conspiracy-obsessed imaginations of his countrymen, who are willing, it seems, to believe almost anything except what their government tells them."



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Review: In ‘Shaun the Sheep Movie,’ a Flock Heads to the City to Find Its Farmer - The New York Times

Review: In ‘Shaun the Sheep Movie,’ a Flock Heads to the City to Find Its Farmer - The New York Times:



 "It wouldn’t be summer without a movie that stars one or more animals. “Free Willy” (1993). “Babe” (1995). “Jaws” (1975). “Jaws: The Revenge” (1987). And now, “Shaun the Sheep Movie,” a charming and clever concoction from the stop-motion animation studio Aardman Animations, which is known for the “Wallace & Gromit” franchise."



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Stocks Plunge in Greece as Athens Exchange Reopens - The New York Times

Stocks Plunge in Greece as Athens Exchange Reopens - The New York Times:



"ATHENS — Investors issued a vote of no confidence in Greece’s economy on Monday, dumping stocks as trading on the Athens exchange resumed for the first time in five weeks."



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China Seeks Businessman Said to Have Fled to U.S., Further Straining Ties - The New York Times

China Seeks Businessman Said to Have Fled to U.S., Further Straining Ties - The New York Times:



"LOOMIS, Calif. — China is demanding that the Obama administration return a wealthy and politically connected businessman who fled to the United States, according to several American officials familiar with the case. Should he seek political asylum, he could become one of the most damaging defectors in the history of the People’s Republic."



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Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans? - The New York Times

Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans? - The New York Times:



"On the morning of Sunday, March 29, Sidney Torres was sipping an espresso in the kitchen of his mansion on the edge of the French Quarter when a jarring notification lit up his iPad and two iPhones. Pimps fighting with drug dealers and johns. Man has gun. Hurry. The message came from a neighbor 10 blocks away, on St. Louis Street, and was sent through a venture Torres started four days earlier: a private police patrol that could be summoned via mobile app. Torres, who made a vast fortune as the founder of SDT Waste & Debris Services, a sanitation company that cleaned up much of New Orleans in the years following Hurricane Katrina, spent $380,000 to fund the enterprise after a crime wave put Quarter residents on edge for the better part of a year. Between November and January, there were more than 60 robberies in the neighborhood, and the crimes became increasingly brazen, including a vicious stabbing and a spate of random beatings. It became a personal issue for Torres on Dec. 17, when his 8,000-square-foot home was burglarized; three weeks later, the bar next door was held up by two masked gunmen. Torres’s crowdsourcing approach to crime, conceived throughout February and March, was the impulsive byproduct of his belief that the New Orleans Police Department, which has shrunk by around 500 officers since Hurricane Katrina, was no longer able to protect even the neighborhood less than a square mile in size that contained the city’s most valuable real estate."



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Mark Karpeles, Chief of Bankrupt Bitcoin Exchange, Is Arrested in Tokyo - The New York Times

Mark Karpeles, Chief of Bankrupt Bitcoin Exchange, Is Arrested in Tokyo - The New York Times:



"TOKYO — Since the collapse last year of Mt. Gox, the exchange that served as the largest hub for storing and trading the virtual currency Bitcoin, law enforcement officials and angry clients have been asking what happened to nearly half a billion dollars in Bitcoins that the company said had vanished from its computer systems."



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UK Police Confirm 3 Bin Ladens Killed in England Plane Crash - The New York Times

UK Police Confirm 3 Bin Ladens Killed in England Plane Crash - The New York Times:



"LONDON — Three relatives of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden were among four people killed when a private jet crashed on landing in southern England, British police confirmed Saturday."



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