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Canada's financial-crimes watchdog levies its heaviest fines ever against a crypto currency exchange -- but a journalist tells us that, knowing what he knows, it's going to be tough to collect.

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The fallout from a jewel theft at the Louvre throws the French government into damage-control mode -- but the mayor of central Paris tells us he's still holding out hope some of the artifacts could be recovered.

When an enormous manta ray ends up in a tuna net, it's bad for the creature and the crew. So now fishermen and scientists have created a new kind of safety net.

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