Month: January 2023

Apple CEO Tim Cook will take a more than 40% pay cut this year from a year earlier as the company adjusts how it calculates his compensation partly based on a recommendation from Cook himself. Apple Inc. said in a regulatory filing late Thursday that Cook’s target total compensation is $49 million for 2023, with […]

Beginning next week, the Paterson School District will no longer require students to wear masks indoors. The district introduced the mask mandate just over a week ago in response to the so-called “tripledemic” of rising cases of COVID-19, RSV, and influenza. Eileen Shafer, the Superintendent of the Paterson School District said that after speaking with […]

A Brooklyn family is in shock and mourning after 9-year-old Payton Thompson died after a house fire in Brooklyn on Friday morning. According to fire officials, the flames broke out Friday just before 5:30 a.m. on Howard Avenue. The victim has been identified as 9-year-old Payton Thompson. Her family said that they had been planning […]

Former President Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million Friday for a scheme in which top executives dodged personal income taxes on lavish job perks — a symbolic, hardly crippling blow for an enterprise boasting billions of dollars in assets. A fine was the only penalty a judge could impose on the Trump Organization after […]

Britain on Saturday called the execution by Iran of British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari a barbaric act and said it would not go unpunished. Earlier, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported the execution of the former Iranian deputy defense minister who had been sentenced to death on charges of spying for Britain. “I am appalled […]

The United States has extended temporary deportation relief to Somali citizens in the US, with President Joe Biden’s administration saying the humanitarian crisis and armed conflict in the African nation have created a situation too dangerous for them to return home. In a statement on Thursday, the US Department of Homeland Security said Temporary Protected […]

The volume of cryptocurrency transactions funding illegal activities such as terrorism and human trafficking has quadrupled over the last five years to $20 billion, according to a report released on Thursday. Cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, are in theory supposed to be safer because they are conducted using blockchain technology, which creates a record […]

President Joe Biden admitted Thursday that a second batch of classified material was found in the garage of one of his residences in Delaware after it was revealed this week that similar documents were found at his former office in Washington, DC. The latest revelation has landed Biden in hot water and drawn the frustration […]

A Russian foreign ministry official said on Friday that Belarus may enter the conflict in Ukraine if Kyiv decides to “invade” either country. Russia used Belarus as a springboard to invade Ukraine in February 2022, and since October has deployed troops in Belarus for joint military drills. Both countries have since agreed to intensify their […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has conveyed a message of condolence to the government and people of the Republic of Senegal following a bus accident, which resulted in the death of about 40 passengers and injuries to 80 travellers. The accident is reported to have happened in the early hours of Sunday morning, 8 January 2022, when […]

A 16-year-old boy was beaten into unconsciousness on a Manhattan street by a group who stole his Air Jordan sneakers. The NYPD says it happened around 9:15 p.m. last Saturday in front of a McDonald’s at 3543 Broadway in Hamilton Heights. The group walked up to the teen and started to punch and kick him […]

The embattled freshman Congressman from Long Island is refusing to step aside even those party leaders in his district demand he leave his seat. The Nassau County Republican Party is calling on Congressman George Santos to resign. “He has no place in the Nassau County Republican Committee, nor should he serve in public service, nor […]

Governor Kathy Hochul is once again proposing to give judges more discretion when setting bail. Hochul announced this policy initiative during her State of the State speech and on Wednesday defended her decision. “Right now judges have an inconsistency in the law,” Hochul explained. ‘They’re told to consider the least restrictive means, which means least […]

Iran has sentenced a former defense ministry official to death for allegedly spying for Britain, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday. Alireza Akbari, who served as a deputy defense minister during the tenure of former president Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), was found guilty of “corruption on earth and extensive action against Iran’s internal and […]

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Wednesday the Kingdom intended to use its domestic uranium for the entire nuclear fuel cycle. He added that recent exploration had shown a diverse portfolio of uranium in the country. Saudi Arabia has a nascent nuclear program that it wants to expand. “The Kingdom intends […]

UK culture minister Michelle Donelan on Wednesday said she did not support the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, following a report that a “cultural exchange” is close to being agreed with Athens. Donelan told BBC radio a deal reportedly negotiated by the British Museum’s chairman, George Osborne, was not about the permanent return […]

Rwandan president Paul Kagame has said that the country can no longer accept refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) . In eastern DRC , a region rich in mineral resources, fighting between government forces and rebels from the M23 movement, a former Tutsi rebellion, has increased tensions with neighbouring Rwanda, which the DRC […]

Britain’s attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment early on Tuesday when Virgin Orbit said its rocket had suffered an anomaly that prevented it from reaching orbit. The “horizontal launch” mission had left from the coastal town of Newquay in southwest England, with Virgin’s LauncherOne rocket […]

The White House on Monday condemned the latest executions of protesters announced by Iran and said the United States stands with other countries demanding “immediate cessation” of the death sentences. “We condemn the executions of Mohammad Mehdi Karami & Mohammad Hosseini and the additional executions announced today,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tweeted, referring to […]

The Bronx community came together Monday to remember the 17 lives lost when a fire tore through a Bronx high rise one year ago. Monday marked one year since the Twin Parks fire in the Bronx that left 17 people dead and many more injured and displaced. Members of the community came together today to […]