A disgraced self-help guru who ran a secret cult, where women were branded with his initials and ordered to have sex with him, has been sentenced to 120 years in prison. Keith Raniere founded a “personal and professional development” company called NXIVM (pronounced nex-ee-um) in 1998 in Albany, upstate New York. But during his trial, […]
CHICAGO (REUTERS) – Nearly half a million people in the United States have contracted the novel coronavirus in the last seven days, according to a Reuters tally, as cases and hospitalisations set fresh records in hot spots in the Midwest. More than 5,600 people died from the virus nationwide in the last week, with hospitalisations […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump acknowledged on Tuesday (Oct 27) that a coronavirus economic relief deal would likely come after the Nov 3 election, with the White House unable to bridge differences with fellow Republicans in the US Senate as well as congressional Democrats. “After the election we’ll get the best stimulus package […]
A married dad violently raped his wife’s lesbian friend while telling his victim he was going to ‘fix the gay,’ police claim. Adam Quinn Atwood, 35, was freed last week ahead of his trial despite facing multiple serious sex charges. Atwood, from Salt Lake City in Utah, is said to have attacked the woman in […]
The governor of Louisiana declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Zeta churned its way Tuesday toward the Gulf Coast in the state, which already has been battered by storm after storm during this year’s prolific hurricane season. Zeta threatens to bring life-threatening storm surge along portions of the Northern Gulf Coast by late […]
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – Twenty former Republican US attorneys on Tuesday (Oct 27) accused President Donald Trump of threatening the rule of law as they declared their support for Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden. The former senior federal prosecutors, who collectively served under every Republican president from Mr Dwight Eisenhower to Mr George W. […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is planning to spend around US$15 million (S$20.4 million) on television advertising in Texas and Ohio during the final week of the presidential campaign to help Democratic candidate Joe Biden defeat President Donald Trump, a Bloomberg spokesperson said on Tuesday (Oct 27). Statewide ads in Texas and Ohio will […]
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of brutally murdering his own mother. The teenager, whose name has not being released because of his age, was being held on suspicion for second degree murder of Tiana Keen, 45, due to an incident which took place on Sunday in Marana, Arizona, police said. Keen was […]
The US presidential election on 3 November will be decided, as always, by the “swing states”. Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 happened because he won Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from the Democrats. Joe Biden’s chances of un-seating the incumbent, something that happens rarely in US elections – the last occasion being Bill Clinton’s […]
Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as the newest Supreme Court justice in front of Donald Trump on the White House lawn. A deeply divided Senate confirmed her place with a 52-48 vote, with just one Republican senator, Susan Collins, voting against her. The confirmation of Trump’s nominee comes just days before the election, and […]