He went from locking up bad guys to spending his night behind bars. An Arkansas sheriff was nabbed in a neighboring county on drug and weapons possession charges, according to local reports. Sheriff Jimmy Stephens, who represents Johnson County in the northwest corner of the state, was arrested Saturday in nearby Crawford County, state police…
The mother of a 7-year-old Texas girl allegedly abducted and killed by a FedEx driver slammed the suspect as an “absolute monster.” The body of Athena Strand was found in Boyd, Texas, on Friday, after she was apparently taken from her bedroom in Paradise, earlier in the week. Athena’s mom, Maitlyn Gandy, 26, thanked those…
Venezuela’s oil minister and top representatives of state-run company PDVSA on Friday signed contracts with U.S. oil firm Chevron Corp (CVX.N) intended to help revive the nation’s oil output and expand operations. The United States last week granted Chevron a six-month license authorizing it to take a broader role in existing projects in U.S.-sanctioned Venezuela,…
The Democratic Republic of Congo will publish on Thursday a dispute settlement deal with Dan Gertler, an Israeli businessman under U.S. sanctions, the Congo finance ministry said. A failure to publish the deal could hamper the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) third review of its financial and governance reform program for Congo, which, if approved later…
NEW YORK — A top aide to New York Attorney General Letitia James has stepped down amid a sexual harassment probe. James confirms Chief of Staff Ibrahim Khan resigned after what she called an impartial investigation. The New York Times reports Khan was accused of inappropriate touching and unwanted kissing by at least one woman.…
One of the stars of the MTV reality show Rich Girls has filed a federal lawsuit against an entertainment lawyer, claiming he raped her when she was a 19-year-old virgin. Jamie Gleicher, who is now a 37-year-old social worker, is using the one-year window created by the Adult Survivors Act to go after Roger Haber almost two…
Iran has increased efforts to target critics of the regime living abroad, as well as planning attacks on Israelis and US citizens, often subcontracting the attacks to hired local proxies, according to a Thursday report. Members of the Jewish community and individuals with links to Israel were among those targeted, as well as dissidents and…
Jewish groups are coming together throughout the world to pray for a woman who is a pillar of Milwaukee’s Jewish community. Henya Federman’s family runs all Chabad institutions across Wisconsin, including the Bader Hillel Academy in Whitefish Bay. This week, tragedy struck her and her family of thirteen children, while they were on a Chabat…
A Russian businessman arrested in London is identified by Russian state media as Mikhail Fridman, who also holds Israeli citizenship. A statement from the UK’s National Crime Agency — which didn’t name Fridman — says he is suspected of money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the Home Office and conspiracy to commit perjury. Two other people…
Math doesn’t seem to be the MIT graduate’s strength. Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried — an alum of the vaunted university — gave a bizarre explanation for an $8 billion budget shortfall that helped force the doomed cryptocurrency platform into bankruptcy last month — claiming he had simply “misaccounted” the cash. Bankman-Fried scrambled to explain…