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Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Embattled crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried now faces an additional criminal charge of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday in the Southern District of New York. The new charge brings to 13 the total number of counts […]
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Foreign Affairs Committee has served Secretary of State Antony Blinken with a subpoena for a classified document from diplomats in Kabul warning the Afghan government was at risk of collapse as the last American troops prepared to exit. It marks a significant escalation in the GOP probe of how […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The country’s top banking regulators faced a grilling from lawmakers Tuesday about who was responsible for the the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. The Senate Banking Committee heard testimony from officials at the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Treasury Department in […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The top federal judge for the D.C. district court has issued a swift rejection of former President Donald Trump’s assertion of executive privilege to prevent former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying before a grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. […]
Jacobs Stock Photography Ltd/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Patricia Royalty’s world turned upside down last June when her 34-year-old husband Dakota Royalty died from cirrhosis. The 36-year-old mother was left caring for the couple’s five children. “He meant a lot to the kids. He was always a really good father,” Patricia said in an interview […]
Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Social media app TikTok faces mounting bipartisan hostility in Washington D.C., where Biden administration officials and lawmakers are weighing a possible ban of the platform. The app, which counts more than 150 million U.S. users each month but is owned by a China-based parent company, has faced growing scrutiny […]
www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Just as the school week began across the country Monday, news broke that another school shooting was unfolding in the United States. On Monday morning, according to officials, three children and three staff members were shot and killed at the Covenant School, a private Christian school for students in preschool […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A staffer for Sen. Rand Paul was stabbed and seriously injured in Washington, D.C., on Saturday and a suspect has since been arrested, according to police and Paul’s office. “This past weekend a member of my staff was brutally attacked in broad daylight in Washington, D.C.,” Paul, R-Ky,. said in […]
NIPAH DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images (ACCRA, Ghana) — During her first full day in Accra, Ghana on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris met with the nation’s president, raising human rights issues and growing competition from China in the region during their bilateral meeting. Currently being discussed in Ghana’s parliament is the “Promotion of Proper Human […]
d3sign/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — You added your destination on your weather app. Your out-of-office notification is on. Chargers — check. But one thing you didn’t prepare for on your trip? An unexpected medical issue, possibly brought on by a red-eye flight that worked too well or the friends you’re visiting forgetting to tell you […]
