Month: February 2025

Tensions explode between Trump and Zelenskyy in the Oval Office: Analysis

Tom Soufi BurridgeLeave a Comment on Tensions explode between Trump and Zelenskyy in the Oval Office: Analysis

The bombshell moment that played out in the Oval Office Friday afternoon and the palpable animosity on display between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will have alarm bells ringing across Europe. No one could have seen it coming, it was the equivalent of a diplomatic tsunami and the […]

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Drug lord accused of DEA agent’s murder appears in US court: ‘We have waited 40 years for this day’

Aaron KaterskyLeave a Comment on Drug lord accused of DEA agent’s murder appears in US court: ‘We have waited 40 years for this day’

More than 100 Drug Enforcement Administration agents packed a New York City federal courtroom Friday for the arraignment of the alleged mastermind behind the 1985 murder of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, the first DEA agent killed on Mexican soil. Rafael Caro Quintero, 72, was arraigned on multiple drug and weapons offenses in Brooklyn federal court following […]

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Man convicted of hate crime in fatal stabbing of 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy

Meredith DelisoLeave a Comment on Man convicted of hate crime in fatal stabbing of 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy

An Illinois man has been convicted of murder and hate crime charges in the 2023 fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy. Wadee Alfayoumi was stabbed 26 times and his mother more than a dozen in the Oct. 14, 2023, attack inside their home in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield. Their landlord, 73-year-old Joseph Czuba, […]

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Piglets will be left to starve in a controversial art exhibit in Denmark

VANESSA GERA Associated PressLeave a Comment on Piglets will be left to starve in a controversial art exhibit in Denmark

An artist in Denmark aims to raise awareness of the suffering caused by modern pig production with an art installation that opened Friday that includes three piglets who will be denied food and water and will starve to death. Chilean-born Marco Evaristti is courting controversy to make a point about the treatment of pigs in […]

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US lobster catch drops as crustaceans migrate to colder Canadian waters

PATRICK WHITTLE Associated PressLeave a Comment on US lobster catch drops as crustaceans migrate to colder Canadian waters

SCARBOROUGH, Maine — The U.S. lobster industry’s catch keeps sliding as fishermen contend with the northward migration of the valuable crustaceans. The industry is based mostly in Maine, where lobsters are both a cultural signifier and the backbone of the coastal economy. The state’s haul of lobsters has declined every year from 2021, when it […]

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