NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven years after letting Jeffrey Epstein off lightly with a secret deal, federal prosecutors took another run at putting the billionaire financier behind bars on sex charges, accusing him in an indictment unsealed Monday of...
LONDON (AP) — British Airways is facing a 183 million-pound ($229 million) fine over a breach that compromised information on half a million customers — the biggest penalty to date under new, tougher regulations and one that is likely...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A slow-moving rainstorm Monday washed out roads, stranded drivers and soaked basements, including the White House’s, during a chaotic morning commute in the national capital region. Water gushed into the press...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as Greece's new prime minister today, a day after his resounding win over left-wing Alexis Tsipras, who led the country through the tumultuous final years of...
LONDON (AP) — The British government was today hunting for the source of a leak of diplomatic cables from Britain's ambassador in Washington that branded President Donald Trump's administration "dysfunctional" and...
TEHRAN (AP): Iran announced Sunday it will increase its uranium enrichment to an unspecified level beyond the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, breaking another limit set under the accord and further heightening tensions with the US...
LONDON (AP): Leaked diplomatic cables published Sunday in a British newspaper reveal that Britain’s ambassador to the United States described President Donald Trump’s administration as deeply divided, incompetent and unlikely to show meaningful...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Several African heads of state gathered in Niger’s capital Sunday to launch a continent-wide free trade area that represents an estimated market of $3.4 trillion. The African Continental Free Trade Area aims to create a single...
LONDON (AP) — Details about what prosecutors have called one of Britain’s largest-ever modern day slavery rings have emerged with the conviction of eight people originally from Poland. Prosecutors say more than 400 victims were forced...
MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a 37-year-old man who apparently fell overboard from the cruise ship Carnival Victory. The agency says it was notified Thursday that a Carnival cruise ship crewmember fell overboard about 30...
CLIMAX, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina is the latest state considering a ban on smokable hemp, a product that’s exploding along with the health craze surrounding a compound in the plant known as CBD. Besides federal regulations laid out in...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Segregated Portfolio Company (CCRIF SPC) and the World Bank have issued the Caribbean Oceans and Aquaculture Sustainability Facility (COAST)...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — So far, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has secured about $355 million from two groups of defendant drugmakers in the state’s lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, and he’s trying to make the case that...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill making California the first state to ban workplace and school discrimination against black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids, twists and locks....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An earthquake rattled a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday morning, making hanging lamps sway and photo frames on wall shake. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The 6.4...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Immigrants taking sanctuary in US churches to avoid deportation are being told by US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement that they face hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines under a little-used federal law...
BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama district attorney has dropped the manslaughter charge against a woman who lost her foetus when she was shot during a fight. Marshae Jones was arrested last week after a grand jury concluded she...
NAIROBI, (AP): A Kenyan court on Wednesday sentenced one man to life in jail and two others to 41 years each for being accomplices to the 2015 Garissa University attack in which 148 people were killed. Phone records and handwriting linked the three...
CARACAS (AP): The United States hit Cuba’s state-run oil shipping firm Cubametales with financial sanctions on Wednesday, saying it’s a key player propping up Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro. “Maduro is clinging to Cuba to stay in power,...
Boeing said Wednesday that it will provide an “initial investment” of $100 million over several years to help families and communities affected by two crashes of its 737 Max plane that killed 346 people. The Chicago-based company said...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii has became the first state in the US to remove a requirement that a person be a victim of sex trafficking to have a prostitution conviction erased. Legislation signed into law by Governor David Ige tosses...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau has started the process of printing the questionnaire without the controversial query. Trump...
Several people have reported issues with Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp - which are all owned by Facebook. They're some of the most popular social media apps in the world, but it seems that the apps all crashed this afternoon, The UK Mirror...
LA SERENA, Chile (AP) — Tens of thousands of tourists and locals gaped skyward Tuesday as a total eclipse of the sun darkened the heavens over Chile and Argentina. Tourists from around the world gathered to witness the cosmic spectacle, which...
FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — Legislation that would make it easier for health care officials to prescribe medical marijuana for New Jersey patients has been signed by the governor. Democratic Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill Tuesday that...
