JPMorgan Chase chief executive officer Jamie Dimon highlighted three potential risks facing the country in his annual shareholder letter released Monday, which included inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine. Dimon saw the U.S. economy’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, surging inflation followed by higher interest rates, and the impact of Russia’s invasion […]
A man who allegedly murdered and burglarized 18 elderly women over a two-year period in the Dallas, Texas area began trial on Monday, the Associated Press reported. Billy Chemirmir, 48, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if he’s convicted of murdering Lu Thi Harris, 81, according to the AP. Chemirmir pleaded not […]
The Trump Organization has reportedly reached an agreement to sell the lease for its Washington, D.C. hotel for $375 million, multiple sources reported. CGI Merchant Group, a Miami-based investment firm, reached an agreement with former President Donald Trump’s family hotel company to purchase the lease for the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, The Wall Street […]
A 911 call from a woman at the scene of the fatal Las Vegas car crash involving an NFL wide receiver, Henry Ruggs, detailed the chaos that unfolded after the collision, TMZ Sports reported. “Oh my God, they can’t get no one to help, the whole thing is on fire,” the woman says on the […]
A Monroe County Sheriff’s officer found 32 illegal immigrants suspected of traveling to the United States from Cuba hiding in a boat after pulling a truck over for driving too slow in Marathon, Florida, law enforcement officials announced on Monday. Sgt. Joel Slough conducted a routine traffic stop of a rental truck hauling a large boat and […]
Hackers released source code and data detailing the inner workings of popular streaming platform Twitch in a massive data breach Wednesday. “We can confirm a breach has taken place. Our teams are working with urgency to understand the extent of this,” Twitch announced in a tweet. The leaked data includes the company’s source code for […]
New York City police arrested a woman on Tuesday in connection to an attack in a Times Square subway station where another woman was shoved into a moving train, Fox News reported. Video released of the incident shows a female suspect getting up from a bench and pushing a woman into a moving train as […]
An unnamed Metropolitan Police Department officer fatally shot a man reportedly holding a firearm on Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., according to law enforcement officials. The officers were responding to a call reporting a man with a long gun, though the “firearm” could have been an airsoft gun or paintball gun, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) […]
A United Nations anti-terrorism group will begin adding Taliban content to a database used by tech companies to moderate their platforms. Tech Against Terrorism, a group launched by the United Nations Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (UN CTED) that works with the tech industry to combat terrorist threats, announced Monday it would begin including official Taliban […]
Fast-food workers’ wages increased more during the second quarter of 2021 than they did in any quarterly period in years amid the ongoing labor shortage, according to an industry report. Wages for hourly workers at fast-food restaurants surged 10 percent between April and June of 2021 compared to the same period last year, according to […]
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK—A man who found his wife dead in their home with an ax embedded in her head is being charged with her murder nearly 40 years later. Jim Krauseneck, a former Eastman-Kodak employee, claims he left for work at 6:30 a.m. Feb. 18, 1982, and returned later that day to find his bloodied […]
Over 30 people are missing in North Carolina after severe flooding and power outages caused by Tropical Storm Fred have ravaged parts of the state. In Haywood County, 35 people were reported missing and 10 to 15 bridges severely damaged, the county’s emergency services officials announced Wednesday night. Aerial and water rescue missions were dispatched to the […]
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on Tuesday called for the banning of Chinese video sharing platform TikTok after China acquired a stake and board seat in a subsidiary of the platform’s parent company. Rubio issued a statement demanding President Joe Biden block the app from U.S. mobile devices, citing the Chinese government’s recent acquisition of a 1 percent stake […]
The Department of Defense plans to house thousands of Afghan allies who aided the U.S. military abroad at Fort Bliss, an Army base near El Paso, Texas, where illegal migrant children were detained in dismal conditions. Around 30,000 Afghan allies are expected to be relocated to Fort Bliss and Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, the Department […]
California police shot an armed 13-year-old boy during a confrontation in a cemetery Thursday, Fox News reported. San Bernardino police officers were sent to Pioneer Memorial Cemetery around 1:50 p.m. after the boy called 911 to report that he had killed three people, according to Fox News. The claim was later investigated and deemed untrue. […]
Body camera footage released Tuesday shows police officers’ initial response to the Surfside, Florida, condominium collapse that left 98 dead. “There’s a lot of dust. I can barely see anything,” a Surfside Police officer said, video shows. “Is anybody there? This is huge. I mean, humongous. It’s gone. The whole back of the building is […]
Migrant families were unable to board their deportation flights to Central America after testing positive for COVID-19 or being exposed to someone with the virus, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials. The Biden administration scheduled the first expedited removal flight taking migrants who enter the U.S. illegally back to their home countries Friday, […]
Massive wildfires have burned nearly a quarter million acres in California, resulting in thousands of evacuations, authorities have said. The Dixie Fire, which started on July 13, has burned over 240,000 acres and is 35% contained and the cause is still under investigation, according to the Incident Information System. Over 4,000 people have been placed […]
A man from Coppell, Texas, was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in prison for running a fraudulent scheme to receive about $24.8 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. Dinesh Sah, 55, pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud and money-laundering offenses, according to a press release. […]
The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the leader of an investigation into COVID-19’s origins by the State Department under the Trump administration. In 2015, French intelligence officials warned […]
