Three teenagers have been arrested and accused of stealing a swan prized by its community in upstate New York, killing the beloved bird and eating it over the Memorial Day weekend, officials said. Police in Manlius, a southeast suburb of Syracuse, sounded the alarm this week after Faye, one of the village’s most iconic residents,…
Migrants were reportedly encouraged by an online “whisper network” in Mexico to cross the border into the United States before Title 42 ended, NBC News reported Saturday. The U.S. code, which was enforced in 2020 to restrict immigration based on a public health necessity, was lifted this past week, resulting in a massive wave of…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: Robinhood’s late-night trading buzz Robinhood has started offering 24-hour weekday trading of popular stocks and ETFs, said Michael P. Regan in Bloomberg Businessweek. The brokerage app announced recently that shares of “43 of the most active U.S. exchange-traded funds…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: Robinhood’s late-night trading buzz Robinhood has started offering 24-hour weekday trading of popular stocks and ETFs, said Michael P. Regan in Bloomberg Businessweek. The brokerage app announced recently that shares of “43 of the most active U.S. exchange-traded funds…
Rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking scheme that saw narcotics shipped from the West Coast and sold in New Jersey and Long Island. The 31-year-old rapper, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, was sentenced in federal court in Central Islip,…
The Georgia prosecutor investigating possible interference in the 2020 election by then-President Donald Trump and his allies has requested no trials or in-person hearings be held at the Fulton County courthouse in early August — a sign of when a decision on charges could be announced. In a letter Thursday to the chief judge of the…
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday expressed sympathy for those who suffered under Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, but did not offer the direct apology many South Koreans had wanted. Traveling to Seoul to meet with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Kishida said that his “heart ached” for the past suffering of Koreans, adding…
E. Jean Carroll is considering filing a third defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, after he called her allegation of sexual assault “fake” and a “made-up story” during a CNN town hall on Wednesday, her lawyer told The New York Times on Thursday. On Tuesday, a federal jury in Manhattan found Trump liable for…
E. Jean Carroll is considering filing a third defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, after he called her allegation of sexual assault “fake” and a “made-up story” during a CNN town hall on Wednesday, her lawyer told The New York Times on Thursday. On Tuesday, a federal jury in Manhattan found Trump liable for…
Two staffers were attacked on Monday morning inside the Fairfax, Virginia, office of Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.). Police said the suspect, Xuan Kha Tran Pham, 49, of Fairfax, is facing charges of one count of felony aggravated malicious wounding and one count of malicious wounding. No motive has been revealed, and the suspect is…