A large shipment of popular retro Nike shoes turned out to be counterfeits. US Customs and Border Protection officers seized 14,806 pairs of fake Nike shoes that, if genuine, would’ve been worth a total of more than $2 million. The shoes arrived from China at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport in containers marked as “napkins.”
Continue Reading Melania Trump hosted a listening session with a group of nine teenagers in the White House’s Blue Room on Wednesday afternoon, to learn more about how the growing trend of vaping has affected their lives. The teens, ranging in age from 13 to 18 years old — and from several different parts of the country
Continue Reading The Justice Department received harsh criticism from Democrats over their handling of the Ukraine whistleblower complaint, but Democrats are now holding their fire on one of their bogeymen: Attorney General William Barr. The Justice Department seems like a natural target for the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry: The attorney general’s name was mentioned in the July phone
Continue Reading Montgomery County Probate Judge Steven Reed won the mayoral run-off election, unofficial results show, and will become the first black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, since the city was founded in 1819. Local media called the election for Reed, who overwhelmingly defeated television station owner David Woods by more than 16,000 votes. “Let the record show
Continue Reading A 30-year-old man was shot and wounded late Tuesday afternoon near a Las Cruces intersection, but police said no arrests had been made. It happened shortly after 4 p.m. near the intersection of Northrise Drive and White Sage Arc. Police said the victim and a 26-year-old man apparently got into a dispute and were fighting
Continue Reading New York City has filed a federal lawsuit against 22 online sellers of flavored e-cigarettes. The suit accuses the 22 of illegally selling to minors, targeting young people via social media, and luring them with flavors such as “Lemon Twist,” “Freddy’s Pebbles” and “Whipped Salted Caramel.” The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in US District Court in
Continue Reading Bernie Sanders’ recent heart attack, and his announcement Tuesday that he would be changing ” the nature of the campaign a bit,” would be the October surprise for the Democratic party — except that it happened a year too early. But Sanders’ health scare may still upend what has already been a volatile primary season.
Continue Reading Secrecy has always been Donald Trump’s thing. His net worth? It’s hidden in private companies that produce no reliable public reports. His charitable giving? Listed on tax forms that were also kept secret. Profits on investments? Indebtedness? Business traffic at his properties? Secret. Secret. Secret. How ironic, then, that he’s now on the path to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Santa Clarita, CA (KTLA) — Harley Medellin was less than 3 weeks old when he lost his left arm after a driver fleeing police hit his parents’ SUV. Now 16, he’s a wide receiver for Golden Valley High School’s football team in Santa Clarita. His teammates describe him
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Los Angeles, CA (KTLA) — A 21-year-old woman safely surrendered her newborn to a fire station in Pico-Union on Tuesday evening, Los Angeles fire officials said. The woman brought the baby to Fire Station 13, located at 2401 W. Pico Boulevard, shortly after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to
Continue Reading More than 4,000 people have died from a measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s agency, said on Wednesday. There have been 203,179 cases of the preventable illness across the country, and nearly 90% of the 4,096 deaths were children under the age of 5. “The number
Continue Reading A 32-year-old Georgia man has been charged after fatally shooting a teenage hunting partner he mistook for a deer, police said. Hector Romero-Hernandez was booked into the Glynn County Detention Center on Monday on charges that include hunting with unlawful weapon, misuse of firearm resulting in serious bodily harm to another and hunting without a
Continue Reading A North Carolina sheriff indicted on allegations he ignored and encouraged a plot to kill one of his deputies will keep collecting a paycheck during his suspension. Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday, but the court appearance was postponed for several reasons. A court order filed Tuesday said Wilkins’ attorney
Continue Reading The intersection of winter athletics, sustainability and hygge (that Danish quality of coziness) has birthed a new travel destination, and it opened to the public on October 4. CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, is a Copenhagen-based heat and waste-to-power plant designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group and built in 2017. It’s also a place
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Roberto Rave es politólogo con especialización y posgrado en negocios internacionales y comercio exterior de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y la Universidad Columbia de Nueva York. Con estudios en Management de la Universidad IESE de España y candidato a MBA de la Universidad de Miami. Es columnista del diario económico colombiano
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An El Paso judge ordered a Lower Valley massage parlor closed Tuesday after authorities alleged a pattern of illegal sexual activity and potential human trafficking at the facility over the past year. Judge Sergio Enriquez issued the order shutting down YoYo Body Works at 800 N. Zaragoza Road effective immediately. During a months-long investigation by
Continue Reading America has a history of prosecuting or destroying the character of its whistleblowers. With a possible impending impeachment and President Donald Trump painting the whole thing as a partisan hit-job, the multiple whistleblowers coming forward in the Ukraine probe are either historically naïve or extraordinarily brave. I believe in their bravery, and I believe America
Continue Reading United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on member states to pay their outstanding contributions, as the organization faces such a “severe financial crisis” that staff salaries risk not being paid next month. The organization is suffering its worst deficit in a decade, Guterres said Tuesday, as he addressed the UN General Assembly to introduce
Continue Reading Technical wizardry provides the centerpiece of “Gemini Man,” a movie whose most kinetic moments approximate a first-person videogame, while giving Will Smith the opportunity to battle himself. Those flourishes, however, come at the expense of story, yielding a movie that emphasizes its experiential and 3D qualities but lacks depth on every other front. Director Ang
Continue Reading While Boris Johnson is cheered by supporters for his tough talk on Brexit, people in Brussels are becoming increasingly unsure if the British Prime Minister really wants to strike a deal with the EU. And that’s the crucial question, because if he doesn’t, then there won’t be a deal. Ireland’s leader, Leo Varadkar, said on
Continue Reading For “Breaking Bad” and “Downton Abbey,” it turns out “The end” wasn’t. In fact, with a robust appetite for content based on established titles, it’s increasingly just the beginning. There was no reason to clamor for more “Breaking Bad” after the finale in 2013, which brought closure and a measure of redemption to the central
Continue Reading Republican Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona did not directly reveal her opinions on the case behind a Democratic-led impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Wednesday, calling the House probe “quite partisan” but also a “serious matter.” When asked by 12 News KPNX if she thought Democrats had a case, McSally said there was a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Idaho Falls (EastIdahoNews.com) — Bobby Farias was desperate. The founder of Kunoa Cattle Company, a meat processing plant in Hawaii, couldn’t pay his employees, owed money to ranchers and had nearly a million dollars of cattle that had been slaughtered but not purchased. That’s when Melaleuca CEO Frank
Continue Reading Strong winds, heavy rain, coastal flooding and high surf will impact the Northeast for several days as a storm strengthens off the coast. Air travel delays, power outages and beach erosion could result as the nor’easter lingers through Saturday, creating a soggy, blustery mess, particularly from New York City to Boston. “A significant & potentially
Continue Reading New York State Police are investigating after anti-Semitic materials were discovered at a Holocaust memorial in Westchester County on the eve of Yom Kippur. Anti-Semitic “stickers” were found at the entrance gate of the Garden of Remembrance memorial in downtown White Plains on Tuesday, according to Catherine Cioffi, the communications director for Westchester County. Cioffi
Continue Reading Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday for the first time called for President Donald Trump‘s impeachment. “To preserve our Constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached,” Biden said of the President, speaking at a town hall in New Hampshire. “He’s shooting holes in the Constitution,” Biden said. “And we cannot let
Continue Reading Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she will not solicit wealthy donors and hold high-dollar fundraisers if she wins the Democratic presidential nomination, in a shift from earlier this year when she said that fundraising strategy was just for the primary contest. When asked in an interview with CBS News released Tuesday whether she’d “pivot” or be
Continue Reading Most 97-year-olds would probably feel accomplished just getting out of bed in the morning. John B. Goodenough, 97, just won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Goodenough won the award alongside Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for their contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries. Goodenough is the oldest person to win a Nobel Prize. Arthur
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