NEW YORK — After a protracted campaign enlisting Hillary Clinton, rallies with City Council members and a whole lot of memes blaming Mayor Eric Adams for cutting Sunday service, the city’s three library systems will be getting $58 million in cut funding restored. The Thursday night announcement from the mayor and City Council Speaker Adrienne […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Business owners are excited about the impending sale of the Country Club Plaza. The Kansas City mayor said the sale is ready to happen. Some store owners have been located on the Plaza for years, others are thinking about filling a vacant storefront with word of the sale. Mayor Quinton Lucas […]
The judge overseeing Hunter Biden’s federal firearms charges trial agreed on Friday to block prosecutors from telling jurors about some other unflattering episodes from his personal life, but left the door open to allowing them in if the president’s son testifies. It is unclear whether he would take the stand during the trial that could […]
Claims circulating on social media that Canadians would soon have to pay a Can$25,000 (USD$18,212) penalty when moving out of the country are false. Canada’s Department of Finance said it was not considering any such emigration fee and the posts misrepresent an existing requirement for some people to settle a tax bill on gains from […]
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump were heading back to a New York appeals court on Wednesday, with their third legal challenge involving his impending criminal trial in three days. The court docket for the state Appellate Division shows Trump’s attorneys filed the challenge as a lawsuit invoking a provision of New York law known […]
Although it’s around six months before the next lot of teenagers head off to university, some parents are starting to worry about their departure already – and one of them is Gwyneth Paltrow. The film star has admitted she’s struggling with a “deep sense of impending grief” as her 17-year-old son Moses – from her […]
The Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Jan. 10 sparked continued price appreciation of the cryptocurrency as institutional funds invested in the asset. Barely a month later the newly launched ETFs have attracted $7.7 billion, according to Morningstar, resulting in continued optimism in the space. On Coinbase’s most […]
Fake news about Russia’s plans for an offensive in northern Ukraine and the threat of seizing Sumy is spreading online, Sumy regional governor Oleksiy Drozdenko reported on Telegram on Feb. 14. “Don’t buy into the misinformation, and don’t let the enemy manipulate you! Russians are circulating deceptive information about an impending offensive in the north and the […]
JetBlue Airways Corp. (NASDAQ:JBLU) agreed to buy Spirit Airlines Inc. (NYSE:SAVE) in July 2022 for $3.8 billion in what was poised to create the fifth-largest airline in the US. Fast forward to today, and Spirit Airlines is valued at under $1 billion and trying to stave off bankruptcy. According to a recent note from investment […]
Donald Trump has declared that he will be a dictator on “day one” of his regime if he defeats President Biden in the 2024 election. But Trump will not just be a regular political thug. Instead, he will be a type of dictator who claims a divine mandate. Some of history’s most evil and destructive […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Zvi Zamir, a former director of Israel’s Mossad spy service who warned that Israel was about to be attacked on the eve of the 1973 Mideast war, has died, the Israeli prime minister’s office announced Tuesday. He was 98. Zamir led the Mossad from 1968-1974, a turbulent period that included a number […]
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used a rarely exercised power to warn the Security Council on Wednesday of an impending “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and urged its members to demand an immediate humanitarian cease-fire. His letter to the council’s 15 members said Gaza’s humanitarian system was at risk of collapse after two months […]