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‘Belligerent’ man ordered to pay United Airlines $20K for flight diversion: DOJ

‘Belligerent’ man ordered to pay United Airlines $20K for flight diversion: DOJ

Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — A British man who wreaked havoc on a United Airlines flight, forcing the flight crew to divert their landing location, must pay over $20,000 to the airline, prosecutors announced. The charges stem from a March 1 flight that departed from London, when passenger […]

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Harvey Weinstein’s NYC sex crimes retrial set for after Labor Day

Harvey Weinstein’s NYC sex crimes retrial set for after Labor Day

Scott Heins/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to be retried “sometime after Labor Day,” a judge said Wednesday, as the disgraced film mogul appeared in a Manhattan courtroom for the first time since the New York Court of Appeals threw out his rape conviction. Court officers wheeled […]

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Fed holds interest rates steady at highest level since 2001

Fed holds interest rates steady at highest level since 2001

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve decided to hold its benchmark interest rate steady on Wednesday, postponing highly anticipated rate cuts as elevated inflation continues to burden U.S. households. The announcement arrives days after new government data showed that the economy is cooling off. The slowdown has coincided […]

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What to know about ‘outside agitators’ cops say are co-opting Columbia protests

What to know about ‘outside agitators’ cops say are co-opting Columbia protests

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Protests at Columbia University against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza have been allegedly “co-opted” by what New York City police officials described as professional outside agitators bent on sowing chaos and violence. Top police brass in New York said at a news conference Wednesday […]

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College protests updates: Violence erupts between opposing protesters at UCLA, LAPD responds

College protests updates: Violence erupts between opposing protesters at UCLA, LAPD responds

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza. Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for their colleges to divest of funds from Israeli military operations, while some Jewish students on the campuses have called the […]

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Air Force preps new military charges against convicted Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira

Air Force preps new military charges against convicted Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON)– Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to numerous federal crimes after leaking sensitive information online, will now face military criminal proceedings next month for alleged violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to an Air Force spokesperson. “Following close […]

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WNBA star Brittney Griner reflects on ‘mistake’ that led to agonizing detention in Russia in “20/20” special

WNBA star Brittney Griner reflects on ‘mistake’ that led to agonizing detention in Russia in “20/20” special

ABC News (NEW YORK) — WNBA star Brittney Griner opened up for the first time about her harrowing monthslong detention in Russia and the “mistake” that got her sentenced to nine years in prison in a special edition of ABC News’ 20/20 airing Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET on ABC. […]

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College protests updates: Protesters clash on UCLA campus, LAPD responds

College protests updates: Protesters clash on UCLA campus, LAPD responds

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza. Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for their colleges to divest of funds from Israeli military operations, while some Jewish students on the campuses have called the […]

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Harvey Weinstein scheduled to appear in court after sex crimes conviction overturned

Harvey Weinstein scheduled to appear in court after sex crimes conviction overturned

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California, on 04 October 2022. (Etienne Laurent/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to appear in court in Manhattan on Wednesday for the first time since New […]

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Officials: 55 people injured after Los Angeles Metro collides with USC bus

Officials: 55 people injured after Los Angeles Metro collides with USC bus

KABC-TV (LOS ANGELES) — A Los Angeles Metro Rail train and a University of Southern California bus collided on Tuesday, leaving at least 55 people injured and two individuals in critical condition, officials said. The crash occurred on Watt Way and Exposition Boulevard in the Exposition Park neighborhood around noon, […]

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