The leader of a Minnesota anti-hunger nonprofit was convicted in U.S. District Court on Wednesday of masterminding a brazen scheme that reaped more than $240 million in pandemic relief funds with a network of bogus food kitchens that billed the government for 91 million meals. The nonprofit’s leader, Aimee Bock, 44, was convicted by a
A British man was convicted on Tuesday of stealing an 18-carat golden toilet that had been on display as an artwork in an exhibit at Winston Churchill’s birthplace. The fully functioning toilet, a work titled “America” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was stolen from the Churchill family seat of Blenheim Palace in southern England, a
The Trump administration said Wednesday it would suspend about $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its approach to transgender athletes, according to a White House social media account that trumpeted the pause. The move would intensify the government’s campaign against transgender people’s participation in public life and escalate a clash
The wife of a wealthy Florida doctor has found civilly liable for his death and ordered to pay his three adult children $200 million more than a decade after he was killed. A jury deemed Rebecca Schwartz, now 64, is responsible for the May 2014 murder of Steven Schwartz, who was found dead in his garage
The Justice Department on Tuesday charged Carl Erik Rinsch, whom Netflix hired to make a science-fiction series that was never completed, with an $11 million scheme to defraud the company. According to the indictment, which was announced by prosecutors for the Southern District of New York and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York Field
The work and pensions secretary has set out plans to “fix the broken benefits system” and tackle the “perverse incentives” driving people to depend on welfare. Liz Kendall’s announcement is designed to bring down the spend on sickness and disability benefits – which has massively increased over the last few years and is forecast to
TAMPA, Fla. — In September 2021, Will Weatherford stood between green and gold balloons under a white canopy and made the proclamation that could change the trajectory of South Florida football. After playing their first 25 years across town at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ stadium, the Bulls were ready for their own home. Weatherford vowed
Last Updated:March 18, 2025, 11:14 IST Developers in the Delhi-NCR are capitalising on relaxed FAR norms to build vertically integrated towers where penthouses rival Singapore’s Marina Bay in design—but at half the price per square foot. The Dwarka Expressway, a 29-km artery linking the IGI Airport to Gurugram’s corporate spine, has unlocked 250 acres of
The United States paid El Salvador $6 million to take in Venezuelan illegal immigrants slated to be deported to their home countries, the White House said Monday. The Trump administration sent at least 238 members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang living illegally in the U.S. to El Salvador around the same time a
A jury in California on Friday awarded $50 million in damages to a Los Angeles delivery driver who was badly burned by a cup of hot tea that spilled into his lap in a Starbucks drive-through in 2020, court records show. The driver, Michael Garcia, 30, received multiple skin grafts and underwent other medical treatments