Court documents reveal previous conviction for Sebastian Co. election commission chairman
A land border agreement between Israel and Lebanon implemented in phases could dampen the simmering and deadly conflict between the two countries, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden said on Thursday. Attacks between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon have led to worries of a deeper war across the Middle East.
Indicted New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has collected the necessary signatures to run for re-election to the Senate as an independent.
Spain's parliament gave the final green light to a controversial amnesty bill for Catalan separatists Thursday, paving the way for the return of their figurehead Carles Puigdemont after years of self-imposed exile. In an address from Waterloo near Brussels where he lives in self-imposed exile, Puigdemont hailed passage of the bill as a "historic" day "in the long and unresolved battle between Catalonia and the Spanish state".
The judge denied most of the items Scott Peterson and the LA Innocence Project requested DNA testing for except duct tape on Laci Peterson's pants.
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy, a remarkably bright star system that existed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, NASA said Thursday.Not only does the new finding comfortably beat the previous record for oldest known galaxy -- which was held by JADES-GS-z13-0 that was present 320 million years after the Big Bang -- it also raises intriguing new questions for astronomy.
The credit ratings agency cited DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against the company as the reason for the downgrade.
Nearly 130 countries recommitted on Thursday to save the first pillar of a global tax deal on highly profitable multinationals by the end of June, the co-chairs of a three-day meeting in Paris said after the talks failed to produce an agreement. Officials from 127 countries and jurisdictions have struggled for months to finalise the terms of an international treaty about how to reallocate taxing rights across borders, mainly on U.S. big digital companies. The co-chairs of the meeting at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said in a statement that countries were "nearing completion of the negotiations", adding the aim was still to finalise an agreement by the end of June.
The casino billionaire is planning to back the newly reconstituted Preserve America effort to help the former president.
Foot Locker seems to be impressing Wall Street as investments show early sign of return.
The UN General Assembly drew criticism Thursday for its tribute to the late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash, with Washington boycotting the gathering.The General Assembly pays tribute to any head of state of a UN member country who dies in office, including Namibian president Hage Geingob, an independence stalwart, last February, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in 2011.
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously backed the National Rifle Association in a First Amendment ruling that could make it harder for state regulators to pressure advocacy groups.
The Supreme Court on Thursday gave homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts. The court unanimously threw out an appeals court ruling in favor of Bank of America, which has refused to pay interest on money it collects to pay borrowers' insurance and property tax bills. A federal judge initially ruled in favor of the borrowers, but the federal appeals court in New York granted Bank of America's request to dismiss the suits, arguing that the federal law governing national banks does not permit such state-by-state regulation.
Jurors returned Thursday to a second day of deliberations in Donald Trump's criminal trial with detailed requests to review portions of the evidence, leaving the Republican presidential candidate stuck awaiting his fate."The defendant's intent to defraud could not be any clearer," said prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, urging the jurors to use their "common sense" and return a guilty verdict.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said Thursday the current setting of monetary policy is in the right place to help inflation get back to 2%, in remarks that gave no hints of when he thinks the central bank might be able to cut the cost of short-term borrowing. “The behavior of the economy over the past year provides ample evidence that monetary policy is restrictive in a way that helps us achieve our goals,” Williams said in the text of a speech prepared for delivery before a gathering of the Economic Club of New York. “I see the current stance of monetary policy as being well positioned to continue the progress we’ve made toward achieving our objectives,” Williams said.
The rate rose to 7.03% from 6.94% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Higher mortgage rates can add hundreds of dollars a month in costs for borrowers, limiting homebuyers’ purchasing options. A year ago, it averaged 6.18%, Freddie Mac said.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York state appeals court said Donald Trump can sue his niece Mary Trump for giving the New York Times information for its Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 probe into his finances and his alleged effort to avoid taxes. The Appellate Division in Manhattan found a "substantial" legal basis for Donald Trump to claim that his niece violated confidentiality provisions of a 2001 settlement over the estate of his father, Fred Trump Sr. A five-judge panel said it was unclear whether Mary Trump's disclosures were subject to confidentiality, or how long both sides intended the provisions to remain in effect.
The number of Ukrainians living in poverty has grown by 1.8 million since 2020, bringing the total to about 29% of the population as Russia's 2022 invasion continues to ravage the country's economy, the World Bank said in a report. The situation would be much worse if Ukraine had not received substantial foreign budget support to pay old-age pensions and salaries for teachers, doctors and others, according to Arup Banerji, the World Bank's regional director for Eastern Europe. The World Bank report, based on monthly phone surveys of up to 2,000 households, estimated that some 9 million Ukrainians were living in poverty last year.
The house that collapsed into the ocean on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Tuesday was the sixth such incident over the last four years.
Badly behaved bachelor and bachelorette partygoers could soon face heavy fines if they overstep the mark in a Spanish resort town.
The slow pace of donor contributions poses the main obstacle to shipping desperately needed ammunition to Ukraine faster, a leading official in the Czech drive to supply Kyiv said on Thursday. Speaking on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Prague, Tomas Kopecny said Ukraine would need large-calibre ammunition worth 7 billion euros to 10 billion euros ($7.6 billion to $10.8 billion) annually, equal to about 200,000 rounds per month. The Czech government's envoy for Ukraine and one of the key figures behind the Czech-led initiative to raise contributions from allies to supply Ukraine said there was a single-digit million number of shells available on the global market over a one-year horizon.
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