Florida Man Sued For Not Paying Up After Betting On Trump
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A friendly $100 wager over the 2020 Presidential election has landed in a Florida small claims court.
Before the election, Sean Hynes, a Trump suppor...
Calls To Governors For More Guard Troops For DC
WASHINGTON (AP)- Defense Department officials are scrambling to call governors and asking whether they have any more National Guard troops they can send to Washington to help prote...
Sheldon Adelson Buried On Jerusalem’s Mount Of Olives
JERUSALEM (AP) — Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate who made prolific donations to right-wing politicians and causes in the United States and Israel, was laid to rest ...
Prosecutor: Capitol Rioter Aimed ‘To Take Hostages’
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A retired Air Force officer who was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week carried plastic zip-tie handcuffs because he intended “to take ...
Michael Cohen Writes Foreword For Trump Impeachment Book
NEW YORK (AP) — A bound edition of materials about President Donald Trump's second impeachment will feature a foreword from an estranged associate — former Trump attorney Michael C...
FBI Tracking ‘Extensive’ Online Chatter About Armed Protests
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is tracking an “extensive amount of concerning online chatter,” including calls for armed protests leading up to next week's presidential inauguration, Di...
Biden Unveils $1.9T Plan To Stem COVID-19 And Steady Economy
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan Thursday to end “a crisis of deep human suffering” by speeding up vaccines and pumping o...
Expanded Vaccine Rollout In US Spawns A New Set Of Problems
WASHINGTON (AP) — The rapid expansion of COVID-19 vaccinations to senior citizens across the U.S. has led to bottlenecks, system crashes and hard feelings in many states because of...
WATCH: Leaked Video Shows Twitter CEO Detail Plan For Censorship
CALIFORNIA (VINnews) — Project Veritas on Thursday released a video appearing to show Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaking about censoring certain accounts, including one specific acco...
Jewish Community Shaped By The Inquisition Opens Portugal’s First Holocaust Museum
LISBON (JTA) - Portugal is set to open its first Holocaust museum, built in the northern city of Porto by members of a Jewish community that was founded by descendants of victims o...
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Describes Painful Associations Of Seeing ‘Camp Auschwitz’ T-shirt
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Longtime CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said Thursday that he was happy that his late parents, survivors of the Holocaust, did not live to witness the resurgence of ant...
MIT Professor Charged With Hiding Work For China
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was charged Thursday with hiding work he did for the Chinese government while he was also collecting U.S. dollars fo...
Samsung Promises New Phones Will Deliver More For Less Money
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Samsung’s next crop of smartphones will boast bigger screens, better cameras, and longer-lasting batteries at lower prices than last year's lineup that cam...
Jewish Civil-Rights Group Protests Twitter CEO Over Not Banning Holocaust Denial
CALIFORNIA (JNS) — The grassroots Jewish civil-rights movement End Jew Hatred protested outside the California home of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday, blaring audio recordings o...
Jacob Blake Says He Was Ready To Surrender Before Being Shot
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Black man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in Wisconsin, triggering several nights of violent protests over the summer and leaving him part...
Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher Of Siegfried & Roy Dies
Siegfried Fischbacher, the surviving member of the magic duo Siegfried & Roy who entertained millions with illusions using rare animals, has died in Las Vegas, his publicist te...
NY Attorney General Sues NYPD Over Floyd Protest Response
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's attorney general sued the New York Police Department on Thursday, calling the rough treatment of protesters against racial injustice last spring part of ...
Whatsapp Growth Slumps As Rivals Signal, Telegram Rise
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge upticks in downloads from Apple and Google’s app stores. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, by contrast, i...
Tintin Comic Book Art Breaks Auction Record At $3.1 Million
PARIS (AP) — A Tintin drawing by the Belgian artist Herge sold Thursday in Paris for 2.6 million euros ($3.1 million), breaking the record for the most expensive comic book art in ...
Powerball Jackpot Hits $640M As Mega Millions Grows To $750M
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Another night, another unclaimed giant lottery jackpot.
Wednesday night’s Powerball jackpot was worth at least $550 million and grew to an estimated $640...