An Arizona father was arrested and charged with murder for allegedly leaving his 2-year-old daughter in the car outside the family’s home for three hours when temperatures climbed to 109 degrees, authorities said. Christopher Scholtes, 37, was taken into custody Friday and booked at the Pima County Adult Detention Center for second-degree murder and child … Read more
The youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, married his longtime girlfriend early Saturday in what many dubbed the wedding of the year, attended by global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians, highlighting the billionaire’s staggering wealth and rising clout. The wedding rituals, including exchanging garlands by the couple and walking around the sacred fire, began Friday and … Read more
Social media has been abuzz with details of Donald Trump’s relationship with the late notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, but while the pair knew each other for decades, there are no new revelations in the so-called Epstein Files released this year. Misleading and sensational claims about Trump and Epstein have percolated online this week, circulating on … Read more
An Australian army private and her husband accused of spying for Russia were denied bail Friday, on the first charges against suspected operatives under Australia’s sweeping espionage laws enacted in 2018. Kira Korolev, 40, and her husband Igor Korolev, 62, are Russian-born Australian citizens and hold Russian passports. They did not appear in person and were represented … Read more
A Black man has filed a discrimination lawsuit against a boutique hotel in Detroit after he said his multiple job applications went ignored — until he changed the name on his résumé to a white-sounding name. Dwight Jackson said that he applied repeatedly for positions at the Shinola Hotel under his given name between January … Read more
An Iraqi court issued a death sentence against one of the wives of the late brutal Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, alleging that she was complicit in crimes committed against Yazidi women captured by the militant group, the country’s judiciary announced Wednesday. The ruling comes weeks before the 10-year mark since IS launched a series … Read more
Side hustlers are hustling a little less but making more when they do. About 36% of U.S. adults say they make extra money from a side job beyond their main source of income, according to a survey the consumer finance platform Bankrate released Wednesday. That’s down from 39% last year, when side-hustlers were earning a … Read more
Former supermodel and French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was given preliminary charges Tuesday for involvement in alleged efforts to pressure a witness who accused ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy of receiving illegal campaign financing from Libya. Bruni-Sarkozy was placed under judicial supervision on Tuesday, which included a ban on contact with all those involved in the proceedings … Read more
President Joe Biden is attempting to frame his quest to retain his candidacy as him against the “elites” in Washington. But in interviews, rank-and-file Democrats, party chairs, battleground leaders and elected officials say Biden has it exactly backward. All along, they say, they’ve felt deep concerns about Biden — and fielded reservations from voters, as … Read more
NEW ORLEANS — Lawyers for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will ask a federal appeals court Tuesday to revive a defamation lawsuit Favre filed against a fellow Pro Football of Fame member, former tight end Shannon Sharpe, amid the backdrop of a Mississippi welfare scandal that is one of the state’s largest public corruption cases. … Read more