A body was recovered from the rubble of a house in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan district on August 20 after an Israeli shelling attack on August 19. Local medical workers reported that the attack claimed the lives of a 40-year-old woman and a two-year-old girl. Local reports said that 17 Palestinians have been killed since the latest ceasefire in the region collapsed. Credit: YouTube/Watania Media Agency
Regulators have closed Republic First Bank, a regional lender operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday it had seized the Philadelphia-based bank, which did business as Republic Bank and had roughly $6 billion in assets and $4 billion in deposits as of Jan. 31. Fulton Bank, which is based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, agreed to assume substantially all of the failed bank's deposits and buy essentially all of its assets, the agency said.
A retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate in Nevada and Texas has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of an Idaho man who suffered a head injury during a Halloween Party at a Las Vegas Strip hotel. Daniel Rodimer, 45, who now lives in Texas, is expected to appear before a Nevada judge May 8 following his indictment Friday in the death of Christopher Tapp.
A former McKinsey & Co partner sued the global consulting firm on Friday and accused it of defaming him and making him a "scapegoat" to distract attention from its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and other manufacturers of opioid pain medications. Arnab Ghatak, who was fired in 2021, filed the lawsuit in New York state court just two days after Reuters and others reported that the U.S. Department of Justice was conducting a criminal investigation of McKinsey's role in the U.S. opioid epidemic. Part of that investigation concerns whether McKinsey obstructed justice, an inquiry related to McKinsey's disclosure that it had fired two partners who communicated about deleting documents related to their opioids work, people familiar with the matter said.
A Colorado paramedic was sentenced to four years of probation Friday for his role in the killing of Elijah McClain, bringing a close to the yearslong effort to prosecute those involved in the Black pedestrian's death.
The "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser" by prestigious Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was estimated to sell between €30 million-€50 million.
The sentencing Friday closes out the last of three trials around the death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man.
Some experts say intermittent fasting is better than dieting. Here is what to know before you start.
The principal of an Albuquerque high school is replaced and some staff members are put on administrative leave after a drag queen performs during prom.
A woman who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault said Friday she was not sure she could face testifying again if he is re-tried, after his New York rape conviction was thrown out this week.Weinstein, 72, was convicted in 2020 of the rape and sexual assault of ex-actress Jessica Mann in 2013, and of forcibly performing oral sex on former production assistant Haley in 2006.
Sudanese paramilitary forces are encircling the only capital they haven’t captured in the western Darfur region, the United Nations said Friday, warning that an attack would have “devastating consequences” for the city's 800,000 inhabitants. At the same time, the U.N. said, the rival Sudanese Armed Forces “appear to be positioning themselves.” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres again called on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and government forces to refrain from fighting in the North Darfur area around its capital, El Fasher, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
Twyla Stallworth, 40, sued the Andalusia, Alabama police department claiming an officer assaulted her in her home after she called the cops.
The story at the center of Netflix’s latest true crime drama, “The Asunta Case,” is captivating, horrifying and real.
The central question hanging over Donald Trump's legal cases, Mitch McConnell's next big fight, and why Joe Biden is feeling optimistic about the 2024 election.
Columbia University student Kyhmani James apologized for saying "Zionists don't deserve to die." The White House condemned the remarks.
The owner of a Michigan business that exploded in March has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after a flying canister from the blast hit and killed a 19-year-old standing outside a quarter-mile away.
The Biden Administration has delayed plans to ban menthol cigarettes, a proposal announced by the Food and Drug Administration years ago.
A young killer whale that was trapped for more than a month in a lagoon on Vancouver Island swam past a bottleneck at high tide early Friday, reaching an inlet that could take it to the open sea, officials said. The Ehattesaht and Nuchatlaht First Nations said in a statement that a team monitoring the 2-year-old calf saw it swim past the area where its mother had died, pass under a bridge and head down the inlet “all on her own.” The young orca still must leave the Little Espinosa Inlet to reach open ocean.
Jeremy Cooper, a former paramedic in Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced to four years probation, 14 months of work release and 100 hours of community service on Friday.
Peter Meijer, who lost his House seat after voting to impeach then-President Donald Trump, has dropped out of a crowded Republican Senate primary in Michigan.
State legislators in Tennessee passed a bill Tuesday allowing teachers and school staff in the state to be armed.
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