Top former Israeli defense and intelligence officials filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court in support of a terror victims’ case against Google, blaming the social media platform giant, for aiding and abetting terror. The case – Gonzalez v. Google – was brought by the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old American student…
A suspect in the United Kingdom’s deadliest terror attack was in US custody Sunday morning. Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi was arrested for allegedly helping make the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, officials said. The plane was en route from London to New York when it…
A Brooklyn man convicted of fondling a sleeping woman aboard an international flight to JFK Airport dodged prison time — thanks to a lenient federal judge. Daniel Katz, 36, was sentenced last week to one year of probation — including three months of unmonitored home detention — and 75 hours of community service for the…
A butterfly activitist drugged and strangled her former stepfather after finding nude pictures of herself on his computer, prosecutors alleged. Thomas Merriman’s body was found in January 2021, under a pile of trash at the Solana Beach, Calif., home he shared with stepdaughter Jade Janks. The murder trial of Janks, 39, an interior designer who…
When Russian troops poured across the Ukrainian border in March, thousands fled from the cities that would be first in their path. But in Kherson, the southern port city with strategic value to the Russians, Rabbi Yosef Itzhak Wolff decided to stay put. His decision to remain put him in line with the philosophy of…
The Biden administration took a public stand last year against the abuse of spyware and blacklisted the Israeli firm NSO Group, but it didn’t prevent the U.S. from using other Israeli offensive spyware to hack into mobile phones, The New York Times reported on Thursday. According to the report, the Biden administration allowed the Drug…
A Hollywood producer’s stunning Southampton manse was completely destroyed in a blaze early Friday, officials said. The inferno broke out just before 12:24 a.m. at the Long Island estate of Oren Aviv, who has produced such flicks as “National Treasure,” authorities said. The blaze was under control within 30 minutes — but the “house was…
A string of attacks on power facilities in Oregon and Washington has caused alarm and highlighted the vulnerabilities of the US electric grid. The attacks in the Pacific north-west come just days after a similar assault on North Carolina power stations that cut electricity to 40,000 people. As first reported by Oregon Public Broadcasting and…
A threatening letter, a derailed train, blocked roads, burned vehicles, workers locked up. That’s what some of the world’s biggest mining companies say they’re battling in South Africa: Extortion. Covid plunged Africa’s most-industrialized country — home to the biggest deposits of metals ranging from platinum to chrome and manganese — into the deepest economic contraction…
Earnings more than doubled in the 12 months through September, Trafigura said on Thursday, while revenue surged to $318.5 billion. The oil and petroleum products business had “an exceptionally strong year,” said Chief Financial Officer Christophe Salmon. The volatility and disruptions sparked by the war have helped create the most profitable period in history for…