News about Nelson Rockefeller

Meghan Marshack (pictured left) who was with the former New York governor and vice president when he died under circumstances that spurred intense speculation, has died in California at age 70. Shifting explanations regarding the details of that night fanned conjecture about the death of the 70-year-old member of the wealthy Rockefeller family and the nature of his relationship with his 25-year-old researcher. After decades of silence, Marshack revealed a few tidbits about her interactions with Rockefeller in her obituary, which her brother Jon Marshack said she wrote last year.

Michael Rockefeller (born 1938) was a member of one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful families. He was the son of New York Governor - and later Vice President - Nelson Rockefeller. After university, Michael was part of an expedition with Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, studying the Dani tribe in Dutch New Guinea. He soon returned to New Guinea to spend time with the Asmat tribe and collect their unique wooden art. On November 17, 1961, Michael's boat overturned near the island's southern coast. After staying with the boat for some time, Michael attempted to swim to shore for help. He was never seen again.

WARNING: Contains graphic images: Feasting on unburied corpses, using skulls as cooking utensils and eating human flesh as part of dark magic rituals: these are just a few of the stomach-turning practices still observed by the world's remaining cannibal tribes. Such tribes often inhabit corners of the world that have remained mostly untouched by modern civilisation, and thus have been sheltered from outside influences. As a result, their ways and traditions can date back thousands of years - and are so far detached from our own, they seem almost alien. It is perhaps for this reason that scientists and explorers alike have long been fascinated with the remote tribes of the world, none more so than cannibal tribes. Many have risked life and limb to get close to such groups, in some cases with tragic consequences. But it is thanks to their efforts that we know the little that we do. Here, MailOnline explores what we know about some of the world's cannibal tribes.

New York City is considering a bill that will use birth control to eradicate the rat population. The number of rats in the city stands at about three million, down from 10 million in 1967. The city has previously used rat poison, dry ice, traps and drowning as methods to eliminate the number of rodents.

A couple who lived in the prewar building on the 5th and the ninth have filed a dramatic lawsuit alleging that the board's former president and others of running the place like a mob. On a tony stretch of upper Fifth Avenue, Elizabeth Sawyer and her partner Clifford Press, the operators of a 12-room park-facing unit, have claimed that a racket has been operating for over a decade in plain view and with impunity. According to the lawsuit, a corrupt group of entrenched cooperative directors who are profiting the company by their illegal and other misdeeding behaviors are concealing behind the limestone facade of a Museum Mile neoclassical.

Although heavily populated cities such as New York and Los Angeles may seem to be the most likely US targets, there are other, more targeted states, such as Montana or North Dakota. The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) first published the map of the areas most likely to be affected in 2017 in a tweet, but it has resurfaced on social media as the West teeters prepare to war with Russia over its takeover of Ukraine.

Parts of the city's entire population would be killed and radiation poisoning if the Russian leader did drop a nuke on the Big Apple. However, there are already nuclear fallout shelters scattered around New York City from the turbulent Cold War period. The yellow and black stripes once represented fully stocked fortresses that might serve as cover in the event of a nuclear attack, much to the worry of Americans, particularly New Yorkers following the 1962 Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. However, by the following decade, funds had run out and the majority of them had been converted into basement storage spaces. Nelson Rockefeller, the father of more than $1.5 billion, oversaw the construction of at least tens of thousands of shelters around the city in 1960.