Aaliyah, the R&B star whom R. Kelly married when she was just 15, figured prominently in the government’s closing argument against Mr. Kelly on Wednesday, as a federal prosecutor presented the pair’s illegal union as a criminal act underlying the racketeering charge. The prosecutor, Elizabeth Geddes, an assistant U.S. attorney, revisited trial testimony about how […]
Former President Donald Trump has filed a $100million lawsuit against his niece Mary Trump and the New York Times over the newspaper’s 2018 reporting on his tax records. The suit, filed in New York’s Dutchess County on Tuesday, alleges that three Times journalists ‘convinced’ Mary to ‘smuggle records out of her attorney’s office and turn […]
LEWISBURG, W.Va. — The governor was livid. “Other than GOD above and my family, I place my duties as Governor above all else,” he thundered in a statement sent out on Tuesday evening. “All I do is work, and I love my work, and I love the people of West Virginia, especially the kids.” But […]
A high school in Ohio has been locked down after a reported brawl involving as many as 100 people. Initial reports around the fight at Westland High School in Columbus on Wednesday morning indicated that several people were stabbed and at least one person was taken to a hospital, according to the Daily Mail. However, […]
The Taliban have nominated an ambassador to represent Afghanistan at the United Nations, U.N. officials said Tuesday, injecting a new twist into what was already a delicate diplomatic quandary in the global organization. The nomination, submitted to Secretary General António Guterres on Monday, sets up a showdown with the envoy of Afghanistan’s toppled government, Ghulam […]
They are small figures moving through a subway station on a Saturday in Manhattan — a mother and her son speaking softly to each other in Burmese. Than Than Htwe, 58, is a homebody, content to stay at her family’s Brooklyn apartment on the weekend meditating or simmering fish in a pot of lemongrass and […]
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – Human-caused climate change has intensified the withering drought gripping the South-western United States, the region’s most severe on record, with precipitation at the lowest 20-month level documented since 1895, a US government report said on Tuesday (Sept 21). Over the same period, from January last year through last month, the region also […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A body found in a US national park in Wyoming has been identified as Gabby Petito, a young woman who went missing during a road trip with her fiance, and her death has been ruled a homicide, the FBI said on Tuesday (Sept 21). The confirmation is the latest turn in a […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden’s nominee to a post overseeing export policy on China said on Tuesday (Sept 21) he sees Chinese telecoms firm Huawei as a national security threat and expects to keep the company on a trade blacklist unless “things change.” If confirmed as Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and […]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday (Sept 21) urged the United States and China to engage in dialogue, warning of an increasingly divided world. “I fear our world is creeping towards two different sets of economic, trade, financial and technology rules, two divergent approaches in the development of artificial intelligence – […]