When New York prosecutors finally get to examine the federal tax returns of former President Donald J. Trump, they will discover a veritable how-to guide for getting rich while losing millions of dollars and paying little to no income taxes. Whether they find evidence of crimes, however, will also depend on other information not found […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the imprisoned former leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested on Monday (Feb 22) over her alleged involvement in international drug trafficking, the US Department of Justice said. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, a regular attendee at her husband’s trial two years ago, was arrested […]
A man who was expecting his first child was killed on Sunday and his brother was injured when a device they were preparing for a gender-reveal party exploded in a garage in the Catskills in New York, the authorities said. The New York State Police said troopers responded to a report of an explosion at […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Over half a million people have died of coronavirus in the United States, as the country races to vaccinate its most vulnerable residents before new variants of the deadly disease become widespread. More people have died in the United States due to Covid-19 than any other country in the world. With 4 […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Americans who rely on social media as their main source of news are more likely to believe false or unproven stories about important topics such as politics and Covid-19, a survey showed Monday (Feb 22). The Pew Research Center report found that people who used social platforms for news were less informed […]
Monday: A Times reporter who spent days inside Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital at the height of the surge discusses what we should learn. By Jill Cowan and Sheri Fink (This article is part of the California Today newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox.) Good morning. In the Golden State, […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Supreme Court on Monday (Feb 22) agreed to examine the legality of one of former president Donald Trump’s hardline immigration rules that bars immigrants deemed likely to require government benefits from obtaining legal permanent residency. President Joe Biden, who has criticised Trump’s immigration approach, is widely expected to dump the […]
By Mihir Zaveri [Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Monday. Weather: Snow mixed with rain around midday, then just rain. High near 40. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Friday (Purim). On Sunday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the statewide daily rate of positive coronavirus test results — a […]
A passenger on a United Airlines flight recorded one of the plane's engines falling apart in flames after it took off from Denver on Saturday. A pilot on United Flight 328 to Honolulu reported a "mayday" and told air traffic control that the plane had had an "engine failure," authorities said. Large pieces of metal […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Rising sea levels and extreme weather could cause US$20 billion (S$26.46 billion) of flood damage to at-risk US homes this year, rising to US$32 billion by 2051, according to research from New York-based flood research non-profit First Street Foundation published on Monday (Feb 22). “Increased awareness of flood risk and rising […]