A U.S.-backed group approved by Israel to take over aid distribution in Gaza says it has started operations, despite opposition from the U.N. and most humanitarian groups and the unexpected resignation of its executive director. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is the linchpin of a new aid system that would wrest distribution away from aid groups…
WASHINGTON — The government’s evidence against Scott Jenkins was compelling, including undercover video and other corroboration showing Jenkins, then the sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, accepting over $75,000 in exchange for giving law enforcement authority to local businessmen, as well as two undercover FBI special agents. Jenkins’ co-defendants all pleaded guilty, and jurors didn’t take…
TOKYO — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he’s Japanese. Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 421 pounds and is the first Japanese competitor to reach the top rank since 2017. By comparison, the average weight of an NFL lineman is just over 300 pounds….
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev raised the specter of World War III on Tuesday, as the rhetoric between the White House and the Kremlin ramped up over the war in Ukraine. Medvedev, now a top security official, was responding to President Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social berating his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as Moscow…
The Trump administration has dramatically stepped up its pace of deportations, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data obtained by NBC News, and in April, for the first time this year, it deported more people than the Biden administration did during the same period last year. In April, the latest month for which the data…
A woman who turned 21 on the day of Australia’s federal election in May has been declared the nation’s youngest ever senator. And like many female candidates who run for election in Australia, Charlotte Walker wasn’t expected to win. The former union official won the governing center-left Labor Party’s third Senate seat for the state…
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Federal prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty for the son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” if he is convicted of multiple charges in Chicago. U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros filed a one-sentence notice Friday saying he would not seek the death penalty against Joaquin Guzman Lopez. The notice did not offer any explanation. Joaquin…
The verdict in France’s largest-ever child sexual abuse case is set to be delivered Wednesday, bringing the landmark three-month trial to an end. Former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, faces up to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting 299 victims over three decades, most of them girls and boys whose average age was 11….
As the mission to capture all 10 New Orleans jail escapees inches closer to completion, court documents and dramatic video of a vehicle chase reveal some of their tracks, authorities said. Eight of the 10 are in custody following three arrests Monday, including the capture of two escapees in an SUV who led authorities on…
