By Jody Godoy, Jack Queen and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s lawyers resumed their cross-examination of the Republican presidential candidate’s ex-fixer Michael Cohen on Thursday, aiming to undermine his testimony that Trump was intimately involved in buying a porn star’s silence over an alleged sexual encounter. Cohen, 57, who served as Trump’s personal […]
Shares of electric vehicle (EV) maker Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN) sank Wednesday after rising early in the week on the brief resurgence of interest in meme stocks. As of the close of trading, Rivian was down by about 8.9% from Tuesday’s closing price — but still up about 2% since the end of last week. […]
May 15 (UPI) — Firefighters in Minnesota used a super-sized ladder truck known as the “Tower” to rescue a cockatiel that escaped from her owner and became stranded on a hospital window ledge. The Duluth Fire Department said on social media that the cockatiel, named Nina, escaped from her owner and was located on a […]
Studying preserved footprints in New Mexico continues to provide insight into the first human movements in North America. A research team believes the footprints are more than 23,000 years old, confirming an earlier study that dates the prints to 10,000 years older than previously believed. Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient […]
By Chris Kirkham, Hyunjoo Jin and Abhirup Roy (Reuters) – The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters. After Tinucci had cut between 15% […]
Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history’s most honoured short story writers, has died aged 92. A spokesperson for her publisher confirmed the death of Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, but did not immediately provide further […]
Donald Trump’s former lawyer and one-time fixer, Michael Cohen, testified that the former president expressed greater concern about the impact the Stormy Daniels affair story would have on his 2016 presidential campaign than how it would affect his wife. On the first day of his highly anticipated testimony in the New York criminal case, Cohen […]
NEW YORK (AP) — It was 7 a.m. on a recent Friday when Wang Gang, a 36-year-old Chinese immigrant, jostled for a day job in New York City’s Flushing neighborhood. When a potential employer pulled up near the street corner, Wang and dozens of other men swarmed around the car. They were hoping to be […]
NEW YORK (AP) — It was 7 a.m. on a recent Friday when Wang Gang, a 36-year-old Chinese immigrant, jostled for a day job in New York City’s Flushing neighborhood. When a potential employer pulled up near the street corner, home to a Chinese bakery and pharmacy, Wang and dozens of other men swarmed around […]
Over the last year or so, many technology companies have made a splash in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). Microsoft really kicked things off following an investment in OpenAI, the start-up behind ChatGPT. For a brief moment, it looked like Microsoft may have outmaneuvered its big tech peers. However, e-commerce and cloud computing giant […]
A man who found a cache of more than 700 rare gold and silver coins from the Civil War era in a Kentucky cornfield last year is sharing his story for the first time on KET. A special episode of “Kentucky Life,” scheduled to air on KET for the first time at 8 p.m. May […]
When high school senior Nathan Teaney appeared last week in a photograph taken by the local newspaper, his father suspected the scene had been staged as a prank. “I think he planned it out as just kind of a joke with his friends,” Ron Teaney told the Peoria Journal Star, part of the USA TODAY […]