NEW YORK CITY — An international heist ring with ties to New York City looted $30 million from banks in Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan, federal prosecutors said. One ring member — Garri Smith, 52, of Brooklyn — was sentenced this week to four years in prison for his role in the scheme, authorities said. Smith and…
TNA issues a statement. The promotion, formerly known as IMPACT, will be re-airing the January 25th episode on AXS later this evening due to some fans not being able to watch the entire thing. We know some of our fans did not get to see the entire TNA IMPACT show last night, so we…
It seems more likely that Mercedes Mone will make her AEW debut soon. WWE was in talks with Mone for her return, but they were unable to reach an agreement on a deal, leading WWE sources to claim that they were the ones who ended the negotiations. The talks fell through due to financial…
Two grave sites have been found in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman, according to an online post Thursday from Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region. Lyman was liberated from Russian control last week. According to a post by Kyrylenko on the social platform Telegram, one site contained about 200 individual graves, and authorities…
NEW YORK CITY — Alden To New York’s Hometown Paper: drop dead. That was the message New York Daily News union workers spread Thursday as they staged a 24-hour walkout to protest “constant cuts” by the paper’s hedge fund owner. Alden Global Capital — labeled variously as “the vulture fund that picked American newspapers apart”…
A Palestinian assailant opened fire at an Israeli military checkpoint in east Jerusalem late Saturday, seriously wounding two people, Israeli authorities said. The shooting came hours after a pair of Palestinian teenagers were killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. It was the latest bloodshed in the deadliest round of fighting…
Cody Rhodes did an interview with ESPN where he discussed a wide range of topics, including the possibility of not wrestling Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Title if The Rock comes back and does the match with Reigns. Here are the highlights: Whether The Rock is standing in his way to get…
MANHATTAN, IL — It would seem to anyone that Olivia O’Sullivan has done this hundreds of times before. FaceTiming with a reporter from a hotel room in Nebraska, the 11-year-old Manhattan girl is youthful but polished, a seeming pro coming into her own. Olivia has burst onto stages worldwide and now across the country, as…
Seoul — North Korea’s recent missile tests involved “tactical nuclear” drills to simulate hitting the South, the North’s state-run media said Monday. It said the launches were overseen by leader Kim Jong Un in response to U.S.-led joint military exercises in the region. Kim made acquiring tactical nuclear weapons — smaller, lighter weapons designed for…
London — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has tested positive for COVID-19, his wife said on Monday, as she battles his extradition to the United States. “Julian was feeling unwell last week but started feeling sick on Friday,” Stella Assange was quoted as saying by the Press Association news agency. “He started coughing and had a fever.…