When the pandemic hit in 2020, the DJ and personal trainer Jonnie King stopped getting booked for gigs and workout sessions. So he turned to trading crypto, which was rapidly increasing in value at the time. “I was like, ‘Oh my...
Catherine Venis no longer drops letters in the mailbox near her home in Flushing, N.Y. Instead, she walks six blocks to a post office and deposits them there. She’s noticed mail like birthday cards increasingly don’t get to her,...
The U.S. Secret Service boosted security around former President Donald Trump after picking up intelligence in recent weeks of an Iranian plot to assassinate him, people familiar with the matter said, adding that the threat was separate...
MILWAUKEE — Ohio police officers in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention shot and killed a man who was wielding two knives near the convention, Milwaukee’s police chief said Tuesday.Five members of the Columbus, Ohio,...
Portland, Ore. — Naomi Pomeroy, an award-winning chef who helped put Portland on the map as a culinary destination, has drowned in an inner tubing accident, authorities said. She was 49 years old.Pomeroy drowned Saturday evening...
Five companies were issued warnings by federal officials for illegally selling food products containing a potentially dangerous drug in packaging that closely resembles popular national brands loved by kids and adults alike. The...
Buffalo, N.Y. — An upstate New York man whose 750-pound alligator was seized is suing the state Department of Environmental Conservation in an effort to get him back, saying the agency was wrong not to renew a license for the pet...
Elon Musk said he will relocate the headquarters for X and SpaceX to Texas, a likely symbolic move that adds more fuel to the billionaire’s efforts to align himself with the political right and distance himself from left-leaning...
Philadelphia — Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, the father of the late Basketball Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant, has died, his alma mater announced Tuesday.Bryant, who spent eight seasons in the NBA with three different franchises, was 69....
New York — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez has been convicted of accepting bribes of cash, gold and a luxury car from three New Jersey businessmen.The jury’s verdict was still being read Tuesday at a federal courthouse in New York City.Over...
Two weeks ago, we wrote that Business leaders are not flocking to GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, with no Fortune 100 CEOs having donated financially to Trump this year—a pattern broken only now by Elon Musk’s pronouncement...
U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene referred to former President Donald Trump as “the founding father of the America First Movement” at the Republican National Convention on Monday.Greene spoke at the convention Monday night,...
Milwaukee — Hundreds of demonstrators converged Monday on downtown Milwaukee to protest around the Republican National Convention, saying the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump won't affect their long-standing...
Escondido, Calif. — Winston, a western lowland gorilla who was a favorite attraction at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, has died at the age of 52 after suffering multiple Health problems, officials said.The park said Winston was euthanized...
Donald Trump officially announced Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate after Trump was formally nominated as the party’s nominee for President for the third time at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has ordered the U.S. Secret Service to protect independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.Kennedy is a longshot to win Electoral College...
Twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was identified by the FBI on Sunday as the shooter behind the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday evening that left one...
SAN FRANCISCO — Wildfires fueled by strong winds and an extended heat wave have led to the first death in California of the 2024 season, while wind-whipped flames in Arizona have forced hundreds to flee from what tribal leaders are...
A Florida woman is suing the distributor and growers of cucumbers tied to a salmonella outbreak that hit 31 states and D.C. and resulted in 449 people getting sick, alleging that the ones she purchased caused her to experience symptoms...
In the past two months, multiple people have been attacked by sharks in Florida, Hawaii and Texas. And while some of these occurrences may not be out of the ordinary, they still create an element of fear for those wanting to take to...
Santa Fe, N.M. — A New Mexico judge on Friday threw out the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin in the middle of his trial and said it cannot be filed again.Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice...
