Jon Jones’ latest legal issue is coming to an early end. The UFC light heavyweight champion pleaded guilty in New Mexico to driving while intoxicated, TMZ reports.
An American soldier was detained in Russia last week on charges of "criminal misconduct," the US Army said Monday."On May 2, 2024, Russian authorities in Vladivostok, Russia, detained an American soldier on charges of criminal misconduct," US Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said.
After years of delays, Boeing's Starliner spaceship is finally set to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station on Monday, marking a crucial step for both the US aerospace giant and NASA's commercial outsourcing strategy. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to take off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:34 pm Monday (0234 GMT Tuesday).
A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after he attempted to shoot a pastor during a sermon that was livestreamed, hours before a relative was found dead in a home where the suspect lived.
The White House bared its teeth Monday at a "disturbing" political opponent who called for President Joe Biden's dog to be put down, days after she revealed she had shot her own family's pet."Joe Biden's dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people.
The Theranos founder has shaved more months from her initial 11-year-plus sentence for wire fraud and conspiracy, federal records show, and is still due to be released two years earlier than expected.
The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report Monday. Medicare’s go-broke date for its hospital insurance trust fund was pushed back five years to 2036 in the latest report, thanks in part to higher payroll tax income and lower-than-projected expenses from last year. Medicare is the federal government’s health insurance program that covers people age 65 and older and those with severe disabilities or illnesses.
A multi-storey building under construction in South Africa's coastal city of George collapsed on Monday killing at least two people and trapping some 50 workers in the rubble, police said.In addition to the people hospitalised and the two dead, no information was yet available for the 50 or so others still trapped under the rubble.
The company said it expects capital expenditure of $1.5 billion in 2024, up from $910.6 million last year. Lucid said it was on track to produce 9,000 cars this year, compared to the 8,428 vehicles it made last year. Analysts, on average, expected the company to make 12,677 units in 2024, according to seven analysts polled by Visible Alpha.
Waking up early to exercise can be difficult, but Hoda Kotb has a three-word mantra to give us all the boost we need to drag ourselves out of bed.
The husband of a Connecticut visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday, alleging her employer repeatedly ignored workers' safety concerns about treating dangerous patients. Ronald Grayson sued Elara Caring, its affiliated companies and others over the killing of his wife, Joyce Grayson, a 63-year-old mother of six who was found dead in the basement of a halfway house in Willimantic on Oct. 28. Elara Caring, based in Dallas, Texas, denies the allegations.
A fraternity at Ole Miss where a member last week jeered a Black female protester released a statement saying the man has been expelled from the organization.
EV maker Lucid reported mixed first quarter results as a wider-than-expected loss trumped the company's confirmation that its Gravity SUV is still on track for a 2024 debut.
In all her 74 years Lorena Martins had never seen anything so horrible: a torrent of foul, rust-colored flood water engulfing her modest home in Brazil, taking away everything but her family."Today I saw death," said Martins, acknowledging that the flood water scared her.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) - an inherited disorder that causes severe damage to the lungs, digestive system and other organs - affects an estimated 105,000 people across 94 countries, according to data from U.S.-based CF Foundation. Sales from Vertex's top-selling CF drug Trikafta, also sold as Kaftrio in some markets, rose more than 18% from a year earlier to $2.48 billion in the quarter, beating analysts' expectations of $2.38 billion.
Trust funds supporting Social Security and Medicare benefits for U.S. seniors are showing some improvement due to stronger-than-forecast economic growth, productivity and immigration that is boosting revenue collections, according to trustees' reports released by the U.S. Treasury on Monday. The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund's reserves are now expected to be depleted in 2036, five years later than was expected in last year's report, Treasury said. Reserves for the combined Social Security trust funds are now projected to be depleted in 2035, one year later than reported last year.
Stocks rallied at the end of last week, getting a boost from a "Goldilocks" jobs report.
Columbia University, the epicenter of US student protests against the war in Gaza, on Monday cancelled its main graduation ceremony, as colleges seek to contain the demonstrations that have rocked campuses for weeks.The University of Southern California in April canceled its main graduation ceremony set for May 10 following pro-Palestinian protests on campus, citing a need for additional safety measures at the event that normally hosts 65,000 people.
A group of 13 conservative U.S. federal judges said on Monday that they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University in response to its handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The judges, all appointees of former U.S. President Donald Trump, called the Manhattan campus an “incubator of bigotry” in a Monday letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik and Law Dean Gillian Lester. "Both professors and administrators are on the front lines of the campus disruptions, encouraging the virulent spread of antisemitism and bigotry," the letter said.
An annual government report offered a glimmer of good news for Social Security and a jolt of good news for Medicare even as both programs continue to be on pace to run dry next decade.
Americans’ Social Security benefits will be slashed in 2035 if lawmakers don’t act to address the pending shortfall, according to an annual report released Monday by the Social Security trustees. That’s one year later than previously forecast.
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