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180 years ago today, Scotland Yard opened for spy business in London. Technically called the Metropolitan Police Service, it’s essentially the headquarters for the police force that oversees Greater London (as opposed to inner city London, whose surveillance falls to the City of London Police). Of course, the force is now housed at New Scotland [...]

As you may have heard, President Obama reportedly sent a secret letter to Russian President Dimitri Medvedev last month. Aside from laying out the early details of the vodka order for Obama’s blow-out 50th birthday party (in 2 and a half years), the U.S. president wrote the clandestine correspondence hoping that in exchange for discontinuing [...]