(Reuters) – A former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier has pleaded guilty to conspiring with four others to steal $200,000 in government cash meant to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and now faces up to 15 years prison, federal prosecutors said. Former Sergeant First Class William Chamberlain, 46, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and receiving stolen government […]
Chief Justice John Roberts. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: AP) Chief Justice John Roberts is almost certainly going to avoid weighing in on whether President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial should include testimony from witnesses, legal expert Jeffrey Rosen told Yahoo News. “I can’t imagine him playing a really substantive role about whether or not to […]
1 / 2 Inter-Korean projects could help ease sanctions on North: South Korea’s Moon Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at DMZ on border of North and South Korea By Kevin Krolicki and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Tuesday it was too early to be […]
On Saturday, violence across the city of Baltimore left 5 people dead and others wounded in a series of shooting incidents. The shootings happened throughout the day, and in locations across the city. Baltimore authorities do not believe they are connected. “The level of violence in the city yesterday was deeply disturbing and deeply troubling,” […]
Tesla Inc. stock surged past $500 on Monday, the latest in a string of high-water marks that have led the shares to outperform the S&P 500 index more than tenfold over the past three months. Monday’s rally was fueled by Oppenheimer analysts, led by Colin Rusch, raising his price target on Tesla TSLA, +8.04% by […]
LAS VEGAS – Somewhere on the digital-entertainment prism — between premium streaming services and free, quirky content on YouTube — Quibi Inc. hopes to occupy a crevice that until now has gone unclaimed. It’s the slice in the upper-right-hand quadrant of a market research paper provided by the Hollywood, Calif-based startup that has raised a […]
‘The Dow soars, wages don’t.’ That’s “inequality in a nutshell,” according to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who fired off those words in a tweet response to NBC’s coverage of a fresh high for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.25% on Friday. The New York Democrat was making the point that while the blue-chip index rallied […]
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth issued an unprecedented statement on the future of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. “Today my family had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family,” the queen wrote in a statement. “My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to create a new life […]
President Trump misrepresented his administration’s health care record while disputing the premise of a campaign ad by Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. “Mini Mike Bloomberg is spending a lot of money on False Advertising,” wrote Trump in a series of tweets Monday morning. “I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you […]