Four people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a Montana bar, prompting a lockdown in a neighborhood several miles away as authorities searched a wooded area for a suspect in the case. The shooting brought the number of mass murders so far this year in the US to nine, according to the Gun…
Dozens of Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at US senator Chuck Schumer’s New York City office on Friday, leading to mass arrests as elected officials joined activists from Jewish Voice for Peace outside the Midtown office. Tiffany Caban, a New York City council member, and Claire Valdez, a state representative, were among those arrested. Demonstrators were seen…
Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate of Jeffrey Epstein who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, has been transferred from a federal prison in Florida, to a lower-security facility in Texas, the US Bureau of Prisons said on Friday. “We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons…
As interest in diabetes and weight-loss medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound surged in recent years, supplement manufacturers responded by launching a number of GLP-1-branded products including pills, powders, drops, and patches. However, experts quoted in a July 29 PBS article warned that these supplements do not come close to matching the effectiveness of…
Colombia’s still-powerful former president Álvaro Uribe has been sentence to 12 years of house arrest, capping a long and contentious career that defined the country’s politics for a generation. Uribe, aged 73, received the maximum possible sentence after being found guilty of witness tampering, a legal source told AFP. The lengthy house arrest, which is…
A 76-year-old man has been charged after children fell ill at a summer camp in Leicestershire. John Ruben, of Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, has been charged with three counts of wilful ill treatment of a child, relating to three children. Leicestershire police launched an investigation after eight children and one adult became unwell at the camp at…
Barclays has become the second UK bank to withdraw from a UN-backed net zero target-setting group, claiming that a wave of defections by international lenders meant it was no longer fit for purpose. It marks a fresh blow for the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), after HSBC left in early July. It came months after a…
Kamala Harris has said that she currently has no desire to re-enter “the system” of American politics because it is “broken”. On Thursday night the defeated Democratic party’s presidential nominee, who replaced Joe Biden late in the 2024 campaign after he dropped his re-election bid, gave her first interview since losing the election to Donald…
Hey Upper East Siders — and beyond! Kelly Rutherford sat down with ET to share her top style must-haves — and exactly how she channels Gossip Girl’s Lily van der Woodsen. To feel like her best self — no matter the ensemble — the actress, 56, starts with a less is more wellness approach. “You can…
The US economy added 73,000 jobs in July, far lower than expected, amid ongoing concerns with Donald Trump’s escalating trade war. Forecasters surveyed by Bloomberg had predicted the July jobs report would show a drop in added jobs of around 109,000. The unemployment rate rose to 4.2% from 4.1% in June. The Bureau of Labor…
