The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a federal judge to sanction Elon Musk if he continues to violate the court’s order to appear for a deposition in a probe of his 2022 Twitter acquisition. The SEC has been investigating whether Musk or anyone else working with him committed securities fraud in 2022 as the Tesla CEO sold shares … Read more
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that roughly 98,000 Arizonans whose voter registration status was in limbo will be able to participate in the full ballot in November. The uncertainty regarding the voters’ fate came after the Maricopa County Recorder’s office discovered a clerical error from 2004 that granted the nearly 100,000 Arizonans voting registration … Read more
Jailers put accused sex trafficker Sean “Diddy” Combs on a “procedural” suicide watch, as the music mogul awaits trial on three felony counts tied to more than a decade of alleged abuse, a source said. Combs has been in federal custody in New York City since Monday night and guards at the Metropolitan Detention Center … Read more
Family and friends are mourning the deaths of a Washington state couple who died while snorkeling on vacation in Hawaii. The couple was found unresponsive by first responders near the north side of Āhihi-Kīnaʻu Natural Area Reserve on Maui. Family members identified the couple on their verified GoFundMe page as 25-year-old Ilya Tsaruk and 26-year-old Sophia … Read more
Stocks surged to open Thursday trading in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it was lowering interest rates by half a percentage point. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up nearly 400 points, or about 1%. The S&P 500 was up 1.6%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was up more than 2.5%. The Fed’s cut … Read more
Iranians sent “unsolicited emails” that included stolen material that was not publicly available from former President Donald Trump’s campaign to people associated with his Democratic political rival, the FBI and two other government agencies said Wednesday. The FBI and federal officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure … Read more
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday are expected to derail their own plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month, with the party divided over the length of a short-term funding bill and what, if anything, should be attached to it. Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan calls for extending funding at current … Read more
Police in Michigan are investigating after a car hit and killed a toddler who appeared to have left her home after being put to bed on Friday. According to a statement from the Michigan State Police, a 2-year-old girl “got out of her bed and walked out of the house” while her parents were working around the family’s home … Read more
Lebanese health officials ordered the public Tuesday to avoid using handheld communication devices after members of the militant group Hezbollah‘s pagers reportedly exploded throughout the country. Al-Manar, a Lebanese television station run by Iran-backed Hezbollah, said the devices “exploded in the hands of their holders in a number of Lebanese regions.” “Large numbers of people … Read more
Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York said. He was arrested in the lobby of a hotel in New York City, according to a person familiar with the situation, who described him as caught off-guard by the apprehension. Combs had been living at the hotel for several weeks, a … Read more