Puerto Rico oversight board reaches deal over retiree pensions
Puerto Rico’s federally created financial oversight board said on Wednesday it reached a deal to restructure more than $50 billion in unfunded pension liabilities that includes cuts for some of the bankrupt U.S. commonwealth’s retired government worker…
Five people detained in David Ortiz shooting in Dominican Republic
Five people have been detained in the Dominican Republic in connection with the shooting of former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz, the country’s Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez said at a news conference on Wednesday.
Five arrested, gun recovered in shooting of baseball’s David Ortiz
Police in the Dominican Republic have arrested five people in the shooting of former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz in a plot that authorities on Wednesday said was more complex than originally thought.
Ex-Stanford sailing coach avoids prison in U.S. college admissions scandal
A former Stanford University sailing coach avoided prison on Wednesday in the first sentencing to result from the U.S. college admissions scandal after admitting he took bribes to help children of wealthy parents gain admission to the school.
House panel approves contempt citations against Barr, Ross
The U.S. House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday to approve contempt of Congress citations against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for defying congressional subpoenas related to the U.S. Census.
Explainer: Chinese woman arrested at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago takes unusual legal path
A Chinese woman charged in March with lying to get into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort while carrying multiple electronic devices, has decided to act as her own lawyer.
In Trump probes, Congress wary of power to arrest, fine
A power that the U.S. Congress has not wielded since the 1930s may remain unused for a while longer as Democrats turn to the courts — not long-dormant rules — to press home investigations of President Donald Trump and his administration.
Trump shields census documents from Congress as contempt vote looms
President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege on Wednesday to keep under wraps documents on adding a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census, defying a House panel’s subpoena in another move to stonewall Democratic lawmakers’ investigations….
Illinois man on trial for Chinese student’s murder obsessed with Ted Bundy: prosecutor
An Illinois man accused of kidnapping and killing a scholar visiting from China two years ago was obsessed with Ted Bundy and other serial killers, a federal prosecutor said as the man’s trial opened on Wednesday.
Democratic presidential candidate Harris vows to shield ‘Dreamers,’ others from deportation
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Wednesday said she would shield six million undocumented immigrants from deportation, a significant expansion of an Obama-era program protecting “Dreamers” brought to the United States as children.
