Attorneys say former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza is being dropped from a lawsuit filed by a woman who alleged she was raped by San Diego State University football players in 2021. Attorneys for both sides say the woman agreed to dismiss Araiza from the suit she filed last year while Ara…
Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism. Gay came under intense scrutiny following the hearing in which she and two of her peers struggled to answer questions about camp…
A former Georgia election worker has testified that she feared for her life as she received a barrage of threatening and racist messages fueled by Rudy Giuliani’s false claims that she and her mother had rigged the 2020 election results in the state. In Giuliani's defamation trial, Wandrea “…
New York’s highest court has ordered the state to draw new congressional districts ahead of the 2024 elections. The decision from the New York Court of Appeals on Tuesday could give Democrats a advantage in what is expected to be a battleground for control of the U.S. House. The state’s bipa…
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos’ lawyer expressed optimism about plea negotiations in Santos’ criminal fraud case Tuesday, successfully fending off prosecutors’ attempts to speed up the the ousted congressman’s trial. In Santos’ first court appearance since he was expelled from Congress earli…
With the United Nations climate talks wrapping up in Dubai, foundations and other funders pledged at least $2.1 billion in new financing to reduce climate impacts, especially from agriculture. The COP28 summit featured numerous firsts, including forums on health, food production and philanth…
Choice Hotels is launching a hostile takeover offer for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts after attempts to reach a deal with the hotel chain were rebuffed. Choice Hotels said Tuesday that its exchange offer remains the same as its last bid, which was $49.50 in cash and 0.324 shares of Choice com…
With the United Nations climate talks wrapping up in Dubai, foundations and other funders pledged at least $2.1 billion in new financing to reduce climate impacts, especially from agriculture. The COP28 summit featured numerous firsts, including forums on health, food production and philanthropy. The estimated pledges don't represent a complete account of philanthropic commitments at COP28 and came from a mix of foundations and private companies with some made in partnership with governments. According to a report from ClimateWorks Foundation, philanthropic funding for climate change mitigation was essentially unchanged in 2022, after growing consistently for the past three years
Choice Hotels is launching a hostile takeover offer for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts after attempts to reach a deal with the hotel chain were rebuffed. Choice Hotels said Tuesday that its exchange offer remains the same as its last bid, which was $49.50 in cash and 0.324 shares of Choice common stock per Wyndham share. The exchange offer gives Wyndham shareholders the chance to choose to receive all cash, all shares or a combination of the two. The offer puts the value of the deal at about $8 billion.
As fighting continues in heart of Khan Yunis, the main town in southern Gaza, Israel claims to have pushed Hamas to the brink of collapse while the Islamist group said its fighters are successfully destroying Israeli vehicles in the strip. As international calls for a ceasefire intensify, I…
Firefighters say they haven't found any victims of a partial building collapse in the Bronx. Firefighters spent hours Monday searching a huge mound of rubble after a corner of an apartment building collapsed, leaving apartments exposed like a stack of shelves. Fire officials say two people who evacuated the building received minor injuries. Firefighters used a search dog, a robotic dog and at least one drone to make sure nobody was trapped in the rubble. Officials were looking into what caused the collapse. The 1927 building has been undergoing facade repairs. Buildings Commissioner James Oddo says there were seven unresolved violations pending at the property, but they weren’t structural.
A new federal charge has been filed against a man accused of firing a shotgun into the air outside a synagogue in upstate New York. Mufid Alkhader was arrested Thursday after shots were fired outside Temple Israel of Albany. Federal prosecutors initially charged the 28-year-old with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Authorities said the charge was related to his admitted use of marijuana. He was charged Monday with conspiracy to make a false statement during the purchase of a firearm. The new charge stems from the purchase of the shotgun police say he used in the shooting.
Toy maker Hasbro is cutting about 1,100 jobs, or 20% of its workforce. The job cuts come as the malaise in the toy business extends through another holiday shopping season. The nearly century-old Rhode Island-based company behind Monopoly, Play-Doh and My Little Pony toys disclosed the layoffs in a memo to employees published in a regulatory filing on Monday. The reductions are on top of 800 job cuts that have been taken so far in 2023 as part of the company's moves announced last year to save up to $300 million annually by 2025.
A combination of heavy rain, snow, and wind is bringing threats of flooding and power outages to the Northeast. It's part of the same storm system that killed six people in Tennessee. National Weather Service teams are assessing damage as emergency workers and community members deal with the aftermath of several tornadoes that toppled houses and cut power to tens of thousands. Winter storm warnings are in effect through late afternoon across Vermont and northern New York, where up to 10 inches of snow were forecast. The Washington, D.C., area had some slushy snow overnight.
Prosecutors say in a court filing that former U.S. Rep. George Santos is in plea negotiations to settle his federal criminal fraud charges. Santos is scheduled to appear in federal court on Long Island for a hearing in the case Tuesday. He acknowledged in an interview that aired Sunday that a plea “is not off the table.” Santos has pleaded not guilty to making tens of thousands of dollars in unauthorized charges on credit cards belonging to some of his campaign donors. He previously pleaded not guilty to other charges, including lying to Congress about his wealth and fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits.
A Montana woman who police say repeatedly drove through a group of religious demonstrators allegedly told a clerk at a nearby convenience store that she was upset members of the group were expressing racist views, the clerk says. One person was struck in the weekend assault in Billings and had minor injuries. Police say the sidewalk demonstrators who were targeted are members of Israel United in Christ. The group said in an emailed statement that its members were acting peacefully. It has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “an extreme and antisemitic sect" based in New York.
New Mexico could become an early political testing ground for an unconventional proposal to make assault-style weapons less deadly. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday said she’ll encourage the state’s Democratic-led Legislature to consider statewide restrictions that mirror a proposal from U.S. senators. If approved, the federal proposal would mean assault-style weapons would have permanently fixed magazines, limited to 10 rounds for rifles and 15 rounds for some heavy-format pistols. The proposed federal Go Safe Act comes from such senators as New Mexico’s Martin Heinrich. Lujan Grisham says the idea is more likely to get a “fair debate” in the Democratic-led state Legislature than in Congress.
A man recently cleared in the gruesome 1995 killing of a subway token booth clerk is suing New York City and two detectives. Thomas Malik is seeking at least $50 million in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Monday. The suit says that what it calls “a wanton and reckless” law enforcement culture subjected him to decades of unjust imprisonment that left grave psychological damage. The 46-year-old Malik is one of three men who spent decades in prison before prosecutors last year disavowed the convictions in the death of Harry Kaufman. The city Law Department says it will review Malik’s suit.
At a small rural Missouri high school, two English teachers shared a secret: Both were posting adult content on OnlyFans, the subscription-based website known for sexually explicit content. The site and others like it provide an opportunity for those willing to dabble in pornography to earn extra money — sometimes lots of it. The money is handy, especially in relatively low-paying fields like teaching. Many post the content anonymously while trying to maintain their day jobs. But some outed teachers and others in prominent fields have lost their jobs, raising questions about personal freedoms and how far employers can go to avoid stigma related to their employees’ after-hour activities.
LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels has won the Heisman Trophy in a decisive victory. Daniels is the first Heisman winner to be part of a team team that failed to play for a conference championship since 2016, when Lamar Jackson won for a Louisville team that also went 9-3. Daniels is also LSU’s third winner overall. Daniels, who transferred from Arizona State in 2022, is the fifth quarterback in the last seven seasons to win the Heisman after transferring. Daniels received 2,029 points. Washington’s Michael Penix Jr. was the runner-up with 1,701 points and Oregon’s Bo Nix was third.
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University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy. The university said Saturday evening that the chairman of the Ivy League school’s board of trustees, Scott Bok, also resigned, just hours after Bok announced Liz Magill’s departure as president. Magill had been under fire from some donors and alumni this fall over the university’s handling of various perceived acts of antisemitism.
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Thousands of people dressed as jolly Old St. Nick have descended on New York City for the annual SantaCon charity pub crawl. The booze-fueled stroll through Manhattan kicked off Saturday morning in bars in midtown. Revelers were expected to make their way downtown where the festivities end in local watering holes in the Village. The organizers encouraged participants to donate $15 to enter participating venues, which they have said will go to charitable causes. Similar Christmas-themed bacchanals were slated in cities across the U.S. and Europe, from San Francisco and Cincinnati to London and Berlin, on Saturday.
Israeli media are reporting that the army is estimating it needs another eight weeks to complete the current stage of its operation.
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Families, friends and other supporters of the hostages in Gaza have been gathering on Saturdays in a square in Tel Aviv for weeks. FRANCE 24's chief foreign editor Rob Parsons reports that the overall mood there is "determined", with most people seeming "more or less to trust the Israeli gov…
A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to be increasingly out of reach for President Joe Biden. Republicans are insisting on pairing the funding with changes to America’s immigration and border policies. GOP senators are trying to move the contours of a border security package sharply to the right after Biden said he was willing to make “significant compromises” to reach a deal. A new proposal laid out by the lead GOP negotiator, Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, could force the White House to consider ideas that many Democrats will oppose. That's creating new obstacles in the difficult negotiations.
After purple urchins helped nearly wipe out 96% of California's iconic underwater bull kelp forests over a six-year span, biologists say they are seeing promising signs that efforts to save them may be helping. Kelp this summer returned in small sections off the Mendocino County coast where volunteers armed with hammers crushed the urchins in the water as part of a state pilot project. In another experiment, biologists discovered kelp they had planted on lines had not only grown but reproduced. Scientists are collecting the data from the experiments for the state's first kelp restoration and management plan.
A man arrested for firing gunshots outside a Jewish temple in upstate New York been federally charged. An FBI spokesperson says Mufid Fawaz Alkhader has been charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Officials say Alkhader fired two shots outside a synagogue in Albany on Thursday. The episode in New York’s capital happened on the first night of Hanukkah amid rising fears of antisemitism worldwide and fallout from Israel’s intensifying war in Gaza. Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins said the man suspected of firing the gunshots said “Free Palestine” when officers arrested him.
Recent assaults on two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners have renewed concerns about whether the federal Bureau of Prisons is capable of keeping people in its custody safe. Derek Chauvin was stabbed nearly two dozen times in the law library at a federal prison in Arizona in November. The former Minneapolis police officer is serving more that two decades for murdering George Floyd in 2020. Larry Nassar was knifed repeatedly in his cell at a federal penitentiary in Florida in July. The ex-U.S. women’s gymnastics team doctor is serving decades for sexually abusing athletes and possessing images of child sexual abuse. The incidents mean the Bureau of Prisons is again under scrutiny for failing to protect high-profile prisoners from harm.
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