Authorities said two Indonesian hackers were detained in connection with an international scam in which $60 million was stolen from a Covid-19 relief program assisting Americans who had lost their jobs due to the pandemic. Police in the Southeast Asian nation said late Thursday that text messages were sent to 20 million Americans, pointing them
Authorities said Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, was arrested Wednesday morning on a suspicion of second-degree manslaughter. The 48-year-old was released on $100,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. Potter was arrested a day after resigning from the Brooklyn Center Police Department and three days
Following a revision of a Trump-era agreement, the Biden administration is going forward with more than $23 billion in arms sales to the United Arab Emirates. The agreement covers the sale of Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets as well as armed drones. Anti-war activists and Democratic politicians have urged the United States to halt all
On Tuesday, the price of the cryptocurrency that was originally designed as a joke, Dogecoin, hit an all-time high of 12 cents per coin. This is a spiked more than 25%. Many cryptocurrencies rose to record numbers on Tuesday morning. Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, hit $63,000 for the first time ever. On Wednesday, Coinbase is
Justine Paradise, a TikTok star, has accused YouTuber Jake Paul of sexually assaulting her at his Los Angeles home in 2019. According to Paradise, Paul grabbed her face and forced her to have oral sex with him, as well as touching her sexually without her permission. Paradise said she had been silent for two years
Iran’s foreign minister has said that his country would retaliate (take revenge) for an attack on an underground nuclear facility, which it has blamed on Israel. After briefly announcing a power outage, Iranian officials said the Natanz uranium enrichment plant was the victim of “nuclear terrorism” on Sunday. Israel has not spoken, but public radio
In Canada, Tesla is selling their Model 3 cars with only with only 94 miles (151 km) of driving range. Previously, you could not see this feature on their website but now you can on the Tesla Canadian website. The Canadian government offers tax incentive to people for purchasing a new EV but that vehicle
On National Nuclear Technology Day, President Hassan Rouhani reaffirmed Iran’s commitment to nuclear non-proliferation while overseeing the launch of advanced centrifuges at the underground Natanz nuclear plant. In reaction to former President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal in 2018, Iran has broken many of the limits put by the 2015 agreement on its
The House Ethics Committee reported on Friday that Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz is the subject of an investigation. Federal authorities are looking into whether the congressman violated any sex trafficking laws. According to several sources, federal investigators are looking into a trip Gaetz reportedly took to the Bahamas in late 2018 or early 2019 as
Before even getting investigated, Congressman Matt Gaetz asked Trump for a pardon. The Representative from Florida was one of President Donald J. Trump’s most vocal allies during his term. Gaetz wanted a blanket pre-emptive pardons in the final weeks of Trump’s presidency. According to two people familiar with the report, he secretly pressed the White
On Thursday, the United States reported 187,000 new coronavirus infections, the largest one-day number in any country since the pandemic began. More than 2,000 people were killed in the United States on Thursday, the highest one-day death toll since May. Disease modelers at the University of Washington School of Medicine currently expect that over 470,000
Thousands of people took to the streets of Minneapolis on Thursday to protest the death of an African American man by a white police officer for the third night in a row. Demonstrators set fire to the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct just hours after authorities said they were unsure whether to indict Derek Chauvin,
