Argentina's former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took the helm of the Peronist party on Wednesday, vowing a comeback to take on the highly popular libertarian President Javier Milei, who took office last year. Kirchner has a daunting task ahead: reuniting the long-standing party that fractured after Milei's election. Until then, Milei was known as an eccentric economic commentator.
The gun found on the suspect in last week's killing of United Healthcare's CEO matched shell casings found at the site of the shooting, the NYPD said Wednesday.
North Korean media on Thursday reported that public anger in South Korea was growing against South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and the ruling party following the short-lived martial law last week. "Calls for puppet Yoon Suk Yeol to be impeached are growing day after day amid intensifying political turmoil," state media KCNA said in a report. North Korean media broke the silence over Yoon's martial law decree and the fallout on Wednesday.
Real estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon are facing sex trafficking charges in New York.
Tracing the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect’s past
Luigi Mangione is charged in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
A magistrate judge ruled earlier that Asif Rahman could be released pending trial.
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The US’ key anti-ISIS partners in Syria said on Wednesday that the ISIS detention facilities they guard are coming under attack and that they have been forced to halt anti-ISIS operations, complicating the US military’s efforts to prevent the terror group from reconstituting following the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The MotorTrend Truck of the Year wasn’t an EV like the Rivian R1T or Ford F-150 Lightning. A gas-powered truck won top honors.
The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday it will send about $1.4 million in electronic payments to a private security company by the end of the week that pulled its staff from the local jail in Georgia. New York-based Strategic Security Corp. ended its contract with the county in August after it failed to pay money owed and let its officers walk out of the Fulton County Jail in the middle of the day. The Sheriff's office did not pay the company what it owed in any billing cycle since the start of its contract in 2023, CEO Joseph Sordi told reporters in August.
A 64-year-old woman was rescued by Coast Guard helicopters over the weekend after being lost in Shore Acres State Park for nearly two full days.
Gunmen in Haiti killed nine people in the latest spasm of violence by the Caribbean nation's powerful gangs, a community leader said Wednesday.Over the weekend, nearly 200 people were killed in Port-au-Prince as a gang leader convinced that his son's illness stemmed from a voodoo spell attacked followers of the religion, according to an organization called the Committee for Peace and Development.
American and European stock markets mostly rose on Wednesday after inflation data cemented expectations that the US Federal Reserve will trim interest rates next month.Stocks in Paris and Frankfurt rose ahead of the European Central Bank's own interest rate announcement on Thursday, with analysts expecting another cut as it seeks to boost eurozone growth.
Online platforms including Etsy and eBay are peddling mugs, candles and other products linked to the shooting death of Brian Thompson.
The North Carolina House voted Wednesday to override Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that will restrict the powers of the incoming governor and other Democrats, clearing the way for the legislation to become law.
The 3D-printed gun that health care CEO killing suspect Luigi Mangione had when he was arrested this week in Pennsylvania matches three shell casings found at the crime scene in Midtown Manhattan, the New York Police Department commissioner said Wednesday, as authorities continue to investigate the motive for the killing.
Senate Democrats failed Wednesday to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after independent Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema opposed the nomination, thwarting their hopes of locking in a majority at the federal agency for the first two years of President-elect Donald Trump's term. A vote to move ahead with the nomination of Lauren McFarren, who currently chairs the NLRB, failed 49-50.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken took off on an emergency trip to Jordan on Wednesday after the overthrow of neighboring Syria's dictatorship, in a new, last-minute attempt to shape a Middle East legacy after a turbulent year.Blinken will head first to the Red Sea port of Aqaba in Jordan, Syria's often uneasy neighbor and a key US partner in the region, before going to Turkey, the main supporter of the Islamist movement that toppled strongman Bashar al-Assad over the weekend.