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DALLAS — President Donald Trump used a Republican midterm convention in Dallas to make an extraordinary promise to voters: If Republicans win control of the House and Senate in November, adult U.S. citizens would receive $5,000 each. Trump referred to the proposed payments as his “Trump dividends,” comparing the concept to cash distributions made to shareholders when a company performs well. He also said the money would need to be spent in the United States. However, important details remain unresolved. It is unclear how the payments would be distributed, how they would be financed or whether the proposal would be…
New York State Police have located 17-year-old Matthew Haass safely after troopers conducted an active search in the Town of LaGrange. Police had been seeking Haass and asked the public to report any sightings or information about his whereabouts. Authorities said there was no immediate threat to the general public during the search, although residents and motorists in the area could expect a heightened police presence as troopers worked to locate him. An earlier police description said Haass was approximately 5 feet 2 inches to 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighed about 125 pounds. He was last reported wearing…
Oil prices have surged back above $100 a barrel as escalating fighting between the United States and Iran raises fears of a prolonged disruption to global energy supplies. Brent crude, the international benchmark, settled Wednesday at $101.21 a barrel, while U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude finished at $96.05. It was the first time Brent had closed above $100 since July. The latest jump comes as attacks involving oil tankers, energy infrastructure and shipping routes around the Persian Gulf have intensified. The Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important oil chokepoints, has seen traffic severely disrupted during the…
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial resumed deliberations Friday as they consider whether the Duxbury mother was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three young children in January 2023. The 12-member jury began its second day of deliberations Friday morning after spending about three and a half hours deliberating Thursday following closing arguments. The jury is weighing five possible verdicts: first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, not guilty, or not criminally responsible by reason of mental illness. Clancy, 36, is charged with killing her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She has pleaded…
King Harald V of Norway died Friday, Aug. 28, at Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet in Oslo, the Royal Palace announced. He was 89. The palace said the king died peacefully at 6:35 a.m. local time. Norway’s government and armed forces subsequently issued statements mourning the monarch, who had served as king for more than three decades. King Harald’s death marks the end of a 35-year reign that began when his father, King Olav V, died in January 1991. Harald was formally sworn in as king four days later and was consecrated alongside Queen Sonja in Trondheim later that year. Norway…
Joan Rubinger built a high-profile sports medicine practice serving professional athletes and other clients. Federal authorities now say the nurse practitioner ran an improper prescription operation that distributed hundreds of thousands of controlled-substance pills and took steps to avoid detection by the Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA revoked Rubinger’s registrations to prescribe controlled substances in July, citing what the agency characterized as egregious misconduct. The action followed a separate civil settlement in which Rubinger agreed to pay $1.4 million to resolve allegations that she violated the Controlled Substances Act on at least 900 occasions. The Justice Department said the settlement…
British police have arrested 12 people as part of an investigation into the events leading up to a fatal crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough that killed seven people, including two police officers. Cleveland Police said nine men and three women, aged between 19 and 61, were arrested on suspicion of offenses ranging from firearm possession to participating in the activities of an organized crime group. The arrests are part of an ongoing investigation into what happened before the deadly collision. Two police officers among seven killed Police said PCs Matthew Blades, 37, and Tom Clough, 38, were killed when…
A Utah man has been indicted on a federal hate crime charge in connection with a July stabbing at a shopping mall that prosecutors say was specifically targeted at Muslims. Peter Larsen, 48, of Orem, Utah, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of willfully causing bodily injury to a person because of the victim’s actual or perceived religion, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Larsen has been held in state custody since his July 13 arrest. Prosecutors Say Victim Was Targeted Because He Was Muslim According to court documents cited by federal prosecutors, police responded…
President Donald Trump secretly switched aircraft during his return from a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, last month as part of a security operation prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, according to The Washington Post. Trump initially boarded an older Air Force One aircraft in view of television cameras. But according to the Post, he was then moved to a smaller Air Force C-32A using an airport catering truck before the plane departed for Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom. The Post cited a U.S. official familiar with the operation, another person with knowledge of Trump’s travel and…
A Syrian criminal court in Damascus sentenced former President Bashar al-Assad and his younger brother, Maher al-Assad, to death in absentia Tuesday over crimes committed during the country’s 14-year civil war, according to multiple reports. The landmark verdict also sentenced Assad’s cousin Atef Najib, who was present in court, to death. Najib was a senior security official in Daraa province when protests erupted there in 2011, helping turn the southern city into a focal point of the uprising against Assad’s government. The convictions mark the first death sentences against Assad and members of his family by Syria’s post-Assad authorities. Assad…