The Coast Guard, NYPD Harbor Unit and FDNY Marine Operations held an event Monday to talk boating safety for National Safe Boating Week, ahead of the busy Memorial Day holiday weekend.
The 10-time Grammy-nominated Victoria Monét, once best known as a hit-maker for Ariana Grande, Fifth Harmony and Chloe x Halle, is getting her flowers these days as a soloist — and passing them right along to the mothers listening. It takes a real talent to borrow from such a recognizable sound. At any rate, the combination makes for a more restrained, pointed listen: a true success on the stellar “Monaco,” a Latin trap song with a need for speed that wouldn’t feel too far removed on his debut album, 2018’s “X 100PRE.”
British billionaire alarms investors by stating space tourism company has enough cash to operate ‘on its own’
WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., warned Monday that if Donald Trump is elected president next year for a second term, he will try to remain in power beyond those four years.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Swiss private bank Banque Pictet has admitted to helping U.S. taxpayers hide more than $5.6 billion from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department, federal prosecutors said on Monday. According to prosecutors, U.S. taxpayers with Pictet accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere evaded about $50.6 million in taxes between 2008 and 2014. As part of the agreement, Banque Pictet agreed to pay $122.9 million to the U.S. Treasury.
The Treasury Department on Monday announced a new strike force to help combat illicit fentanyl trafficking as the U.S. and China step up efforts to stop the movement of the powerful opioid and drug-making materials into the U.S. The Counter-Fentanyl Strike Force will bring together personnel and intelligence from throughout the Treasury Department — from its sanctions and intelligence arms to IRS Criminal Investigations — to more effectively collaborate on stopping the flow of drugs into the country.
Wall Street is cutting earnings forecasts more aggressively than usual in the current quarter, but analysts' outlook for 2024 isn't nearly as negative.
Time's 2023 Person of the Year will be announced on Wednesday morning. Here are the nine finalists in the running.
Gold hit a record high on Monday as growing optimism that the Federal Reserve will cut US interest rates in the new year has dented the dollar in recent weeks."Plus, expectations for Fed rate cuts next year have put downward pressure on the US dollar, which is trading around three-month lows, adding to gold's attractiveness."
When Yuval Kestelman saw gunmen firing at a Jerusalem bus stop, he acted swiftly to stop the attack -- but was killed by Israeli soldiers who likely mistook him for an assailant.As the attack unfolded, Kestelman stopped his car, drew his pistol, ran across the road and opened fire, killing the two Palestinian gunmen.
The content circulating social media offers a very poor representation of the truth of what happened on Oct. 7 in Israel.
Creeping doubts about a Fed shift to cutting interest rates are taking the wind out of the rally's sails.
The fourth Republican debate on Dec. 6 could be the smallest yet.
Last Week Tonight host looks into our flawed system of organ donation, transplant transportation and whole-body donation
Judges at the Kosovo war crimes tribunal have ordered that prison visitors for former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci are vetted and visits are monitored after prosecutors raised concerns about witness-tampering, a decision published on Monday showed. In their ruling the judges said that without extra measures to monitor ordinary visitors and conversations, there was a substantial risk that "Mister Thaci may engage in prohibited conduct which could endanger the security of witnesses and/or the integrity of proceedings". Prosecutors had asked for the court to keep Thaci - and two other former top leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) on trial alongside him - separate from other prisoners and suspend all their communications, outside of privileged talks with their lawyers and some family members.
The Air Force is expanding its study of whether service members who worked with nuclear missiles have had unusually high rates of cancer after a preliminary review determined that a deeper examination is needed. The Air Force isn't making its initial findings of cancer numbers public for a month or so, but released its initial assessment Monday that more review is necessary. "We’ve determined that additional study is warranted” based on preliminary analyses of the data, said Lt. Col. Keith Beam, one of several Air Force medical officers who updated reporters on the service’s missile community cancer review.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is set to take over as the new chair of the Democratic Party's Women Governors Fund.
China’s military said Monday that a U.S. warship had “illegally” entered waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed atoll in the South China Sea.
Singapore plans to triple its pool of artificial intelligence experts, including machine-learning scientists and engineers, to 15,000, as part of its national AI strategy, deputy prime minister Lawrence Wong said on Monday. Nvidia revenue for the quarter that ended in October included $2.7 billion that originated from Singapore, trailing only the U.S, China, and Taiwan, according to a company filing to the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission. Singapore also pledged under its AI strategy to increase government incentives for the sector, including by backing accelerator programs for AI startups and encouraging companies to set up AI "centres of excellence."
The president of Guinea-Bissau dissolved parliament on Monday ahead of fresh elections, saying an "attempted coup" had plunged the West African nation into a new crisis.Embalo, who was in Dubai attending the COP28 climate conference, arrived back in Bissau on Saturday and announced that an "attempted coup d'etat" had prevented him from returning earlier.
The U.N. World Food Program said Monday it will end in January its main assistance program across war-torn Syria, where over 12 million people lack regular access to sufficient food. WFP in recent years has scaled down its support in Syria and neighboring countries that host millions of Syrians who fled the conflict, now in its 13th year. Humanitarian agencies have struggled to draw the world’s attention back to Syria as they face donor fatigue and shrinking budgets.
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