The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday fired its highly regarded chief foreign affairs correspondent after evidence emerged of his involvement in prospective commercial deals — including one involving arms sales to foreign governments — with an international businessman who was one of his key sources.
For the past 17 years, President Joseph Kabila has ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo with a rod of iron and copper and cobalt: the main exports of the mineral-rich but acutely poor state.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York Police Department are investigating allegations that a State Supreme Court judge was swindled out of $1.5 million by someone posing as her real estate lawyer.
Nearly a year after the Israel Tax Authority sought it, fallen tycoon Eliezer Fishman on Wednesday was formally declared bankrupt by the Tel Aviv District Court.
Officials on Wednesday evacuated an airport in Flint, Michigan, where a witness said he saw an officer bleeding from his neck and a knife nearby on the ground.
A “private video” allegedly involving a high-ranking university employee and a student having sex is rocking a university in Louisiana and school officials are now investigating whether a cybercrime was committed.
Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday said that if the United States continues to place sanctions on Russia, Russia will respond “to make matters mutual” and place sanctions on the US.
A California brain surgeon has agreed to give up his state medical license while he faces charges of sexually abusing children.
A federal judge in Manhattan has reduced one count of a drug conviction and accused prosecutors of using “misleading” tactics in a case that former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara helped try in February, just before his firing earlier this year.
A high-ranking UN official with a Ph.D. in economics was charged Tuesday with being a deadbeat boss — and then lying to the federal government about it.