MIAMI — Vilma Petrash taught politics in Venezuela, fled to Miami after state prosecutors accused her of being a “civil rebel,” and is a regular at gatherings to support opposition leaders back home. But she won’t be casting a ballot when Venezuela opens its polls on Sunday in an election …
LONDON — In late January 2011, just days after Scotland Yard launched a major new investigation of illegal phone hacking by British journalists, a computer technician working inside Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate sent an email describing an unexpected halt in his assignment. After days spent helping to delete emails by …
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s tentative plea deal with the United States, which could soon bring an end to his years-long international legal saga, drew celebration and criticism, reflecting the divisive nature of his role in obtaining and publishing classified military and diplomatic documents. While Assange’s supporters saw him as a …
ATLANTA — The judge overseeing the criminal racketeering case against Young Thug ordered the Atlanta rapper’s lead attorney to be taken into custody Monday and held in contempt after he accused the judge and prosecutors of an improper meeting with a key witness in the case. Brian Steel, a prominent …
Former president Donald Trump suggested to oil executive donors this month that he could ease the Federal Trade Commission’s scrutiny of their industry’s mergers and acquisitions if he returns to the White House, according to five people familiar with the matter. During a fundraiser in Houston on May 22, oil …
More than six months into Israel’s invasion of Gaza, the Strip’s ability to produce food and clean water has been severely hampered. Israeli airstrikes and bulldozers have razed farms and orchards. Crops abandoned by farmers seeking safety in southern Gaza have withered, and cattle have been left to die. Story …
Mortgage rates are at their highest point in more than 20 years, adding thousands in costs for would-be home buyers. The average interest rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage has risen to 6.8 percent as of April 11, according to the Freddie Mac, up from an average of about 3 …
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 returned to Denver International Airport on Sunday after an engine cover fell off and struck a wing flap during takeoff, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Houston-bound Southwest Flight 3695 landed safely in Denver about 8:15 a.m. local time after the crew reported the issue, according …
When Melba Pattillo Beals heard Beyoncé sing a line from the Beatles’ “Blackbird” on her new album last week, she was transported back to a morning in September 1957, when she and eight other Black students arrived at an all-White Arkansas school. You were only waiting for this moment to …
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet may have played the protagonists of “Titanic,” but many fans of the 1997 blockbuster view an ornate piece of driftwood as the hero of the film. It was atop that wood panel (often mistaken for a door) that the fictional Rose promised to Jack “I’ll …