Justin Sullivan/Getty Images NEW YORK — Four years before Lehman Brothers collapsed and set off the worst U.S. financial disaster since the Great Depression, Ruhi Maker warned top officials at the Federal Reserve that the nation’s housing bubble could wreak “enormous” economic damage. Maker, a housing attorney in Rochester, New […]
Mint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the fall sports season well under way, young athletes may face pressures from coaches and looming college scholarships to train in only one sport year-round. But experts have issued a new warning to parents and coaches that focusing only on one sport at […]
kali9/Getty Images (HAGERSTOWN, Md.) — Maryland authorities said they’re searching for a man who allegedly targeted and gunned down the judge who oversaw his divorce proceedings. Pedro Argote, 49, allegedly shot Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, in the judge’s driveway in Hagerstown, Maryland, Thursday night while the victim’s wife and […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and Trump Organization executives are […]
Fulton County Sheriff’s Office (ATLANTA) — Kenneth Chesebro, a key co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case, has taken a last-minute plea deal in which he has agreed to testify in the case. Chesebro pleaded guilty to a single felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing of […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Right-wing provocateur and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay more than $1 billion in damages to families affected by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut, despite Jones’ filing for bankruptcy, a federal bankruptcy court judge has ruled. Jones filed for Chapter 11 […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (ARLINGTON, Va.) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ annual banquet has been canceled after “extremists threatened to plant bombs and kill hotel staff due to CAIR’s support for Palestinian human rights,” the organization announced. CAIR said the Arlington, Virginia, hotel where it has held its annual banquet […]
Alyssa Pointer/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Jury selection for the first trial in the Fulton County district attorney’s election interference case began Friday morning. Kenneth Chesebro is facing seven counts after opting for a speedy trial following the indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 others in August. Chesebro was […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and Trump Organization executives are […]
MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As a deadly Hamas attack on Israel unfolded last Saturday, Nadav Padan, a reserve general in the Israeli military who lives in New York, received a flood of messages from soldiers he knew in Israel, he said. Within hours, Padan decided to […]
