For more than two weeks, around 300 immigrants locked up at Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention camp in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and labor strike, refusing to eat and refusing to work maintaining the prison for its operators, the GEO Group. They are not alone: Outside the camp’s chain-link fence, in an industrial area, their family members, loved ones, and a broader community of…
Raúl Castro, younger brother of Fidel, has been synonymous with the Cuban regime that has frustrated and confounded American presidents for decades. Though he stepped back from official duties in 2021, he continues to serve as a symbolic leader and as the general of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces. But Castro is ringing in his birthday with an unwelcome present from the US. Late last month,…
Once a fraudster, always a fraudster.
George Santos is under investigation for placing bets that he would not attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, and then not attending.
Ahead of the State of the Union in February, the disgraced ex–Long Island representative posted a video announcing his intention to appear at the Capitol. His post sent the odds of his appearance soaring…
The Department of Justice charged four people on Monday for conspiring to distribute $45 million worth of cocaine through a cross-border tunnel between California and Mexico.
Department of Homeland Security investigators seized more than one ton of cocaine last Friday after months of monitoring the site, according to a Department of Justice release.
Defendants were to be arraigned on Tuesday…
The government’s attempt to prosecute resistance to the president’s mass deportations mission has been destructive, absurd, often contradicted by the evidence offered, and conspicuously unbound by law. The White House has also lost an uncharacteristic number of these cases, including, most recently, one that originated when federal prosecutors sought to charge a group of demonstrators for…
A juvenile boy has been charged in connection with an investigation into illegal filming at a Loudoun County high school, deputies announced Friday.
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office announced that the boy had been charged in connection with the investigation at Freedom High School.
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Jack Avery, a former member of the now-defunct boy band Why Don't We, was the target of an alleged murder plot by his ex-girlfriend, the TikTok personality Gabbie Gonzalez. Gonzalez was charged Tuesday for conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and solicitation to commit murder, as was her father, Francisco Gonzalez, and surf instructor Kai Cordrey. According to court documents, the…
A Maryland man was arrested on Thursday and charged with felony destruction of property for allegedly throwing a keg through the window of a Georgetown bakery.
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Metropolitan Police officers arrested 28-year-old Charles Joseph Ali of Rockville.
Ali is charged with causing thousands of dollars of…
The Justice Department yesterday charged Raúl Castro , the younger brother of Fidel , with murder and a conspiracy to kill American citizens over a 1996 incident in which the Cuban military shot down two civilian planes belonging to Cuban exiles off the coast of the communist-run island. The indictment creates potential scope…
The U.S. government indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro in federal court Wednesday for his alleged role in shooting down planes belonging to Cuban exiles in 1996.
Castro, 94, and five others were charged in Miami with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, four counts of murder, and two counts of destruction of aircraft related to when the Cuban military shot down planes over the Florida…
On Monday, Hennepin County District Court charged ICE agent Christian J. Castro over the shooting of Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis on January 14—in the middle of “Operation Metro Surge”—with four counts of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon and one count of falsely reporting a crime.
Castro had not been previously identified. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty told the…
Prediction market analysts uncovered what looks like blatant insider trading within the U.S. military after a group of nine connected Polymarket accounts won more than $2.4 million by placing bets on Donald Trump’s war in Iran.
Nicolas Vaiman, the CEO of data analytics firm Bubblemaps, told CBS’s 60 Minutes Sunday that across more than 80 bets, a series of nine anonymous accounts had a 98…
An Alexandria man has been charged with stealing a delivery van and crashing into multiple cars in the Lorton area, critically injuring one woman.
Ibrahim Hussein was arrested on Wednesday. He's facing charges of burglary, hit-and-run, reckless driving and more.
Police were called out to the area of Richmond Highway and Lorton Road around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, after the delivery van crashed…
The Justice Department is investigating potential insider trading related to the skyrocketing oil prices caused by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon. The department is specifically looking into at least four instances where traders made over $2.6 billion betting that the price of oil would fall moments before it did, according to sources who spoke with ABC News.
According to the London…
Will the US and Iran reach a nuclear deal before 2027? Will the Cuban regime fall this year? Will France win the World Cup?
These questions are generating up to millions of dollars today on prediction markets — platforms where people wager on the outcomes of real-world events. If you’re right, you profit. If you’re wrong, you lose your stake. “Contracts,” or wagers, can be as cheap as $0.01,…
The Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act and the Iran war is polling like Vietnam. Sometimes the arc doesn't bend towards justice.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel renewed his on-air mockery of President Donald Trump on Tuesday, 28 April 2026, one day after Trump publicly demanded that Disney's ABC fire him over a joke about first lady Melania Trump.
The same day, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr ordered an early review of Disney's eight ABC-owned television station licenses in New York, Los Angeles, and…
• Says cybercrime, anti-terror laws are weaponised to silence voices; authorities pull ads from critical newspapers
• Warns world faces unprecedented rights crisis; cites use of AI, tech to expand surveillance, curb online dissent
LONDON: Global rights watchdog Amnesty International released its annual report on Tuesday, delivering a stark warning that the world is confronting its “most…
An Australian court granted bail on Friday to former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, charged with murdering unarmed prisoners captured in Afghanistan following a sweeping war crimes probe.
The towering soldier became a household name across Australia when he was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2011, a medal reserved for only the most courageous wartime exploits.
But a landmark military report in 2020…
The first Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been charged in relation to President Trump’s brutal Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., 35, was charged with assault in Minneapolis on Thursday for pointing his gun at two people in a car while trying to pass them in an unmarked vehicle on the highway. Morgan told investigators that he “feared for his safety…
The Trump administration is warning staffers not to bet on world events in futures markets.
_The Wall Street Journal_ reports that the White House Management Office sent out a staff-wide email on March 24 telling administration employees not to engage in the practice following President Donald Trump’s announcement the previous day that he was pausing strikes against Iran.
The email was likely…
Cricket New South Wales (NSW) on Wednesday said that it would support David Warner after he was charged with drink-driving, adding that the former Australian opener was aware of the “seriousness” of the incident.
The 39-year-old is due to appear in court on May 7 after allegedly blowing more than twice the legal limit in a random breath test in Sydney over the weekend.
Cricket NSW, which has a…
Gautam Adani, India’s second richest person, will ask a US judge to dismiss the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) civil fraud case stemming from an alleged bribery scheme, his lawyers said on Tuesday.
Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani were charged by the SEC in November 2024 with orchestrating a scheme to pay or promise to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to Indian…
Lahore Qalandars batter Fakhar Zaman has been suspended for two Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches after he was found guilty of breaching the code of conduct, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Tuesday.
The incident occurred in the final over of Sunday’s match between Karachi Kings and Lahore Qalandars, with the former needing 14 runs to win. Fakhar, Lahore captain Shaheen Afridi and…
Members of the Ulster Defense Association march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, ca. June 1972. (PL Gould / Images / Getty…
A Maryland dentist has been charged with sexually assaulting one of his patients in his own office, officials announced this week.
Dr. Ermais Semaie, a dentist in Silver Spring, was arrested on March 19. He's facing three counts of sexual offenses and five counts of assault.
According to the Montgomery County Police Department, one of Semaie's patients reached…
Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin presents Donald Trump with a bowl of clover during a St Patrick’s Day event in the East Room of the White…
In a case that has ensnared multiple figures in the Trump administration, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s longtime friend and…
A Virginia man has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman he met online, police announced on Friday.
Marco Antonio Ocampos Zamora of Harrisburg has been charged with object sexual penetration and abduction with intent to defile.
The assault was reported in Merrifield in December. According to police, a woman said she had met Ocampos Zamora online, and that he claimed to be a…
Kash Patel baselessly fired an elite team of agents specializing in foreign threats from the Middle East just days before Donald Trump launched an illegal military campaign in Iran.
Patel terminated a dozen employees and staff after accusing them—without providing evidence—of improperly investigating Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence. The FBI…