A multi-agency human trafficking investigation in Southern California has led to the recovery of 33 missing children, the FBI announced. At least eight of the children had been sexually exploited, authorities said. The FBI has seen a spike in human trafficking-related crimes in recent years, with the bureau reporting more than 1,800 pending investigations as […]
Larry King, the radio and television personality whose breezy and conversational interviews with celebrities and world leaders made him a broadcasting icon for nearly half a century, has died, his TV production company Ora Media said in a statement Saturday. He was 87. The statement said he had been receiving treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center […]
“Jeopardy!” producers are reportedly concerned about Katie Couric’s controversial comments bashing the Republican Party ahead of her planned guest-hosting duties on the long-running game show. Last week, Couric appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher” where she spent much of the show trashing President Trump in his final days in office. But what made headlines […]
The same week that a Maryland couple won a $730 million Powerball jackpot, Americans have a shot at $1 billion worth of Mega Millions prize money. A winner of Friday’s jackpot, if he or she took the cash option, would receive $739.6 million – before taxes. In 2020, overall, there were five Mega Millions winners, […]
Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci announced Thursday that President Biden will roll back a Trump-era policy that banned taxpayers’ dollars from going to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information. Fauci, the newly appointed chief medical adviser to Biden, said the move was in line with the new administration’s undertaking to […]
BAGHDAD — Twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing at least 28 people and wounding 73 others, officials said. The rare suicide bombing attack hit the Bab al-Sharqi commercial area in central Baghdad amid heightened political tensions over planned early elections and a severe economic crisis. Blood smeared […]
Former Attorney General William Barr reportedly pushed back strongly on President Trump when discussing claims the president was circulating about the election being “stolen” from him. Barr, during a meeting with Trump at the White House in early December, told the president that such theories of a stolen election were “bullshit,” Axios reported Monday. Other […]
CHICAGO — A California man who told police that the coronavirus pandemic left him afraid to fly has been arrested on charges that he hid in a secured area at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for three months. Aditya Singh, 36, is charged with felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport and misdemeanor […]
A Pennsylvania woman accused of being one of the Capitol rioters told a former “romantic partner” that she planned to steal a laptop computer from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and sell it to Russian intelligence, court documents revealed Monday. The woman, Riley June Williams, 22, was on the run, charged with disorderly conduct on […]
President Donald Trump should be convicted by the Senate but not criminally prosecuted for inciting Capitol rioters, former FBI Director James Comey said Sunday, adding that it would give America space to “heal.” “The country would be better off if we did not give him the platform that a prosecution would for the next three […]
The New York Jets hired San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh to be their new head coach, making him the first Muslim to run an NFL sideline, the team announced Thursday night. “We’ve reached an agreement in principle with Robert Saleh to become our head coach,” the Jets said in a statement. Saleh has […]
An associate of Rudy Giuliani told a former CIA officer a presidential pardon was “going to cost $2m”, the New York Times reported on Sunday in the latest bombshell to break across the last, chaotic days of Donald Trump’s presidency. The report detailed widespread and in some cases lucrative lobbying involving people seeking a pardon […]
