NEW YORK — They call her the ‘Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll’ for a reason. The late great Tina Turner, one of the world’s most popular entertainers who died in 2023 after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, left behind a vast catalog of classics. And now, there’s a previously unreleased song …
Read More »South Korea investigators ask prosecutors to indict President Yoon for insurrection and abuse of power
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s anti-corruption officials on Thursday requested that prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for insurrection and abuse of power over his short-lived martial law declaration. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO) named Yoon, the first sitting president to be arrested in South Korea’s history, as the ringleader of an …
Read More »Bishop Mariann Budde defends plea directed at Trump during inaugural prayer service
Rev. Mariann Budde the Episcopal Bishop of Washington on Wednesday defended a plea for mercy she made to President Donald Trump on behalf of immigrants and others during an inaugural prayer service a day before. “We’re in a particularly harsh moment now when it comes to conversations around immigrant populations …
Read More »Yemen’s Houthis free crew of ship held for more than a year over Israel-Hamas war
DUBAI — Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader more than a year after they seized their Bahamas-flagged vessel off the Yemeni Red Sea coast, Houthi-owned Al Masirah TV reported Wednesday. It said the crew were handed to Oman “in coordination” with the three-day-old ceasefire in Gaza’s war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. …
Read More »Trump picks father of convicted Jan. 6 rioter to serve as CEO of United States Agency for Global Media
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would pick Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III — who wrote a letter on behalf of his son, a convicted Jan. 6 rioter — to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media. “As Founder and President of the Media Research Center …
Read More »Man accused of setting congressman’s office on fire over TikTok ban charged with arson
MADISON, Wis. — Prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to burn down a congressman’s office because he was upset with the federal TikTok ban with multiple counts on Wednesday, including arson. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney filed a complaint against 19-year-old Caiden Stachowicz charging …
Read More »Trump’s pardons delight Jan. 6 offenders
WASHINGTON — Gina Bisignano’s strategy paid off. For years, the Jan. 6 defendant had done anything and everything she could to delay her criminal case in connection with her actions during the Capitol attack, hoping and praying that Donald Trump would be re-elected and pardon her. On Monday, just two …
Read More »Trump issues more immigration orders on third day in office, while enforcement details remain unclear
In his third day in office, President Donald Trump signed more executive orders aimed at shutting down the U.S. southern border to immigration and ramping up deportations — though large scale deportation raids had yet to materialize as of Wednesday afternoon. According to a fact sheet released by the White House, …
Read More »New York,’ dies after brain surgery due to ski accident
Jewelry designer Lynn Ban, who starred in the Netflix reality series “Bling Empire: New York,” died weeks after she underwent emergency brain surgery due to a skiing accident, her son announced Wednesday. “She always had a smile on her face even when times were tough during her recovery process,” her …
Read More »‘We’re in the era of the billionaire,’ human rights expert says. Here’s why wealth accumulation is accelerating
The rich are getting richer. The combined wealth of the world’s most wealthy rose to $15 trillion from $13 trillion in just 12 months, according to Oxfam’s latest annual inequality report — notching the second largest annual increase in billionaire wealth since the global charity began tracking this data. Last year alone, roughly 204 new …
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