White nationalist charged with first-degree murder in Virginia car killing: media
(Reuters) – A white nationalist accused of killing a 32-year old woman when he plowed his car into a crowd of counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, was charged with first-degree murder on Thursday, local media reported.
Nigerian man pleads guilty to taking part in global email scams
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Nigerian man was sentenced to three years and five months in prison by a U.S. judge on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to taking part in email scams to defraud thousands of victims around the world of millions of dollars, U.S. p…
New York woman charged with laundering money to help Islamic State
(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors said Thursday that they had charged a Long Island, New York woman with laundering more than $85,000 in fraudulently obtained money through Bitcoin to help Islamic State.
New York, New Jersey commit $3.65 billion to fund tunnel project
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York and New Jersey on Thursday committed $1.75 billion and $1.9 billion, respectively, to fund a new rail tunnel underneath New York’s Hudson River, part of an urgent program to expand and renovate Amtrak’s aging and heavily t…
Nigerian man gets 41 months in U.S. for taking part in global email scams
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Nigerian man was sentenced to three years and five months in prison by a U.S. judge on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to taking part in email scams to defraud thousands of victims around the world of millions of dollars, U.S. p…
Nephews of Venezuela’s first lady sentenced to 18 years in U.S. drug case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady were sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday following their convictions in New York on U.S. drug trafficking charges.
Firefighter killed battling massive California blaze
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A firefighter was killed on Thursday while battling a mammoth California wildfire as crews sought to protect coastal cities and towns in the path of flames that have destroyed more than 700 homes.
Leadership of New York Times passes to next-generation Sulzberger
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Times on Thursday named a new publisher in 37-year-old A.G. Sulzberger, a fifth-generation descendant of Times leaders whose internal report on innovation has guided a newspaper known as “The Gray Lady” into the digita…
Homegrown attacks rising worry in U.S. as Islamic State weakens abroad
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The online video’s message was clear: Supporters of Islamic State who could not travel overseas to join the militant group should carry out attacks wherever they were in the United States or Europe.
U.S. states sue Trump administration for not granting student-loan relief
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration is breaking the law in not granting loan relief to students defrauded by Corinthian Colleges and other defunct for-profit schools, according to four U.S. state attorneys general who sued th…
