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2025 New Year’s Eve numerals arrive in Times Square
(AP) On Wednesday, the seven-foot-tall numerals for “2025” arrived on Times Square’s Broadway Plaza between 46th and 47th Streets, marking the countdown to the New Year. The numerals, illuminated with 620 LED bulbs, will remain on display for public photos until December 23. After that, they will be mounted atop One Times Square for New…
TikTok asks the Supreme Court for an emergency order to block a US ban unless it’s sold
WASHINGTON (AP) — TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.Lawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance urged the justices to step in before the…
Suspect charged with killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO as an act of terrorism
NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail.Luigi Mangione already was charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson, but the…
Suspect in Gilgo Beach serial killings is charged in the death of a seventh woman
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — The New York architect facing murder charges in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings was charged on Tuesday in the death of a seventh woman.Rex Heuermann pleaded not guilty to killing Valerie Mack, whose remains were first found on Long Island in 2000. Mack, 24, had been…
Santos says viral milkshake attack was planned publicity stunt
A video appearing to show former New York congressman George Santos having a milkshake thrown at him in Times Square went viral over the weekend.But Santos later posted a video on X where he confessed the entire ordeal was a planned publicity stunt filmed months ago to help promote his new podcast.
Rex Heuermann to appear in front of a judge Tuesday
Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is set to appear in front of a judge in Riverhead Tuesday.Following the appearance, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney and representatives of the Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force will hold a press conference to announce what they are calling “a new significant development in the case”.
Trump weighs in on NY mayor, vaccines and drones in freewheeling press conference at Mar-a-Lago
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In a freewheeling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, declared the country was “not going to lose” the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey.Holding court with reporters…
Drones, planes or UFOs? Americans abuzz over mysterious New Jersey sightings
CHATHAM, N.J. (AP) — That buzzing coming out of New Jersey? It’s unclear if it’s drones or something else, but for sure the nighttime sightings are producing tons of talk, a raft of conspiracy theories and craned necks looking skyward.Cropping up on local news and social media sites around Thanksgiving, the saga of the drones…
Vintage performance by Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers carry Jets past defenseless Jaguars 32-25
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Davante Adams caught nine passes from Aaron Rodgers for 198 yards and two touchdowns — all in the second half — and the New York Jets rallied to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 32-25 to end a four-game skid Sunday.Adams hauled in a 71-yard TD pass with 3:24 remaining and a 41-yarder…
Former Manhattan prosecutor to represent suspect in killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
NEW YORK (AP) — The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has added a prominent defense lawyer to his legal team as Manhattan prosecutors work to return him from Pennsylvania to face a murder charge.Luigi Mangione will be represented by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, who was a high-ranking deputy in the Manhattan district attorney’s office…
ABC agrees to give $15 million to Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.As part of the settlement made public Saturday, ABC News posted an editor’s…
Stanley recalling 2.6 million travel mugs due to a burn hazard
Stanley is recalling 2.6 million Switchback and Trigger Action stainless steel travel mugs due to a burn hazard.The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the mugs have a flaw in the lid where the threads can shrink when exposed to heat causing the lid to detach, open, and pose a burn hazard. You can find out…