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An electric scooter rider died after slamming into two minivans in Brooklyn, cops announced Monday. Ilya Perloff, 41, was maneuvering his electronic, stand-up scooter west along Fillmore Avenue when he collided with a 2015 Toyota Sienna traveling north on E. 38th Street in Marine Park around 11:51 a.m. Sunday, cops said. The impact sent the victim flying, first into the Sienna minivan before striking a Chrysler minivan parked nearby,

The pause, effective immediately, is the latest step the administration has taken to hobble offshore wind in its push against renewable energy sources. It comes two weeks after a federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's executive order blocking wind energy projects, calling it unlawful. The administration said the pause will give the Interior Department, which oversees offshore wind, time to work with the Defense Department and other agencies to assess the possible ways to mitigate any security risks posed by the projects.

The Trump administration says the U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing an oil tanker linked to Venezuela. This action is the latest in the Trump administration's pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government. The move is also part of the administration's effort to enforce a blockade against sanctioned oil tankers traveling to and from Venezuela. A U.S. official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, informed NPR yesterday that the Coast Guard was in "active pursuit of a ship."

Rice, who was Black, was playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in Cleveland on Nov. 22, 2014, when he was shot and killed by Loehmann seconds after the officer and his partner arrived. The white officers told investigators Loehmann had shouted three times at Rice to raise his hands. The shooting sparked an outcry about police treatment of Black people and systemic racism, especially after a grand jury decided not to indict Loehmann or his partner.

Impact isn't always immediate or easily quantified. It can surface quietly in an email from a listener, a shift in public understanding, or a decision made differently because someone finally has the information they need. In a nonprofit newsroom, those moments matter as much as any headline. Over the past year, NPR's reporting has met audiences where they are, reflecting the realities they're living every day.

Earlier this month, billionaire Elon Musk, the one-time DOGE leader and Trump adviser, sat down with Katie Miller on her podcast to reflect on his time with the administration. He called DOGE's work "a little bit successful" but said he wouldn't do it again if given the chance. "We were somewhat successful, Musk said. "I mean we stopped a lot of funding that really just made no sense, that was just entirely wasteful."

Thankfully we have another option. Jmail.world makes searching the Epstein files as simple as searching your email. The project has been publishing the convicted child sex offender's emails-and those of the people who talked with him, like Noam Chomsky, Steve Bannon or Ken Starr-since November using a Gmail user interface clone. Jmail's database was filled over the weekend as it added the latest Epstein file release.

CONCORD Police were looking Monday for multiple people they said were involved in a smash-and-grab robbery Sunday at the Sunvalley Shopping Center. The robbery happened about 11:55 a.m. at what police said was a jewelry store inside the mall. Police in a statement said the suspects used hammers to break the display cases and fled in a waiting vehicle. Police said reports from witnesses of gunfire during the robbery were not accurate. Information was not released regarding how many people police suspect were involved.

PHILADELPHIA (KABC) -- An Amazon driver was arrested last week for a road rage murder in Philadelphia, the U.S. Marshals Service announced. Troy Johnson, 30, is accused of intentionally hitting 29-year-old Rigoberto Hernandez with his delivery truck following a verbal altercation. Hernandez died at the hospital. Investigators with the Marshals Fugitive Task Force from Philadelphia along with local homicide detectives arrested Johnson at a home belonging to his family members without incident. He was then sent to Lehigh County for processing.

The Department could not provide support that seven employees worked in the office for 110 full or partial days,

Over the last few months, we've been seeing a lot of UPS shipments, in particular, becoming stuck and being lost or disposed of This all stems from the ending of the de minimis, said Wasserbach. Their [UPS's] whole business model changed once the de minimis was ended. And they just didn't have the capacity to do the clearance a lot of people are expecting to receive international packages, and they're just never gonna get them.

Instead, they are methodically rebuilding core financial plumbing, including payments, deposits, custody and fund administration, so these services can operate on distributed ledgers. The work is incremental, technical and often invisible to retail customers, but it is already reshaping how large institutions think about money movement and settlement. Rather than embracing unregulated crypto assets, banks are focusing on tokenization, the process of representing traditional financial claims, such as deposits or fund shares, as digital tokens recorded on a ledger.

"USC and Notre Dame recognize how special our rivalry is to our fans, our teams, and college football, and our institutions will continue working towards bringing back The Battle for the Jeweled Shillelagh,"

When freelance writer Sam Hindman sits down to work for a few hours on Sundays, she knows it will be quiet. There will be no pings and requests from her clients, no rush to meet an EOD deadline, and no scrambling. While logging hours on the weekend is typically more associated with overwork than freedom, Hindman says that locking in on a Sunday feels like liberation.

The Patriots have been mostly fortunate on that front, though, until the past month when they lost multiple starters, most notably Will Campbell and Milton Williams, and now they're losing a ton of talent in their Week 16 game. It began with Stefon Diggs exiting the game briefly after his first catch with what appeared to be a shoulder injury.

Another holiday-shortened trading week begins today, and the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF ( NYSEMKT: VOO) is feeling the Christmas spirit. The ETF opened up 0.6% Monday. Helping to fuel the rally is again Nvidia ( Nasdaq: NVDA), which plans to begin shipments of its H200 AI chip to China in February. Initial orders are said to total anywhere from 40,000 to 80,000 H200 chips.

According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute , more than 50% of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for retirement. This is a big concern, especially considering how shocking it is that a much smaller number have more than $500,000 tucked away for retirement. When you look at the data breakdown provided by the research, there is no question that it will shock people of all income and savings levels.

(Emma McIntyre / Getty Images for LA28) John Slusher shouldn't admit this. When the former Nike executive signed on to oversee LA28's commercial operations last year, he looked at the private organizing committee's lofty financial goals with some concern. Sales were "incredibly slow." There was momentum around the first Olympics in L.A. in more than 40 years, but not many results. Yet. Weeks after celebrating his one-year anniversary with the group responsible for organizing and delivering the 2028 Games, Slusher and his team delivered a $2-billion present.

To identify the oldest and newest combat aircraft in the United States military, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 2024 World Air Forces report from FlightGlobal, an aviation and aerospace industry publication. We ranked these aircraft according to when they entered service with data from Military Factory, an online database of arms, vehicles, and aircraft. We also included supplemental data on how many of these aircraft are in active service or on order, the type of aircraft, and what military branches they serve in.

On Christmas Eve 1895, George Vanderbilt welcomed family and friends to his new home for the first time. What they saw no doubt astounded them, even by the wealthiest echelon's standards of the era. The Gilded Age heir - a grandson of one of the richest men in US history - had built a 175,000-square-foot, 250-room French Renaissance Revival-style mansion that was a marvel of modern innovation, with 35 bedrooms, dozens of bathrooms with indoor plumbing, and two electric elevators.

"I am honored to be appointed fire chief and continue serving the communities of Livermore and Pleasanton," Lacey wrote in a press release. "Our department is built on a strong tradition of excellence and a commitment to delivering the highest level of service. I look forward to supporting our team as we carry that mission forward."

"We've done studies showing the reason a lot of people are leaving is because it's not functional, because of death threats, because they're not getting anything done," she said in an interview. "The polarization is just dramatically different from even from the 'good old days' when you had the Clinton impeachment, but you got things like welfare and tax reform done," said Comstock, who was a congressional staffer in the 90s and served in Congress from 2015 to 2019.

Though a cause has yet to be determined, and investigators expect to release their findings early next year, one factor could have been the bright skyline around the airport. The National Transportation Safety Board has examined whether those lights could have made it more difficult for the helicopter crew to keep tabs on the plane and whether night vision goggles it believes the crew was using could have made their difficult task even more challenging.

When Radio Dabanga abruptly cut its morning broadcast earlier this year because of budget shortfalls, the station's editor-in-chief, Kamal Elsadig, knew the consequences would go far beyond the walls of the modest office in Amsterdam. Messages began pouring in almost immediately from Sudanese listeners who rely on the exile-run station as their only reliable link to the outside world.

When Islamic State needed to move and disguise its money, it turned, US prosecutors said in 2023, to the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange: Binance. So too did al-Qaida, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which used the platform to help bankroll its operations in the years leading up to the 7 October attack in Israel. Binance was not accused of directly financing these groups, but prosecutors found that it knowingly allowed its exchange to function as a conduit enabling extremist organisations to shift funds, evade scrutiny

After Malik Mack missed a game-tying 3-pointer at the buzzer in his team's 80-77 loss against Xavier on Saturday in Washington, D.C., Cooley squeezed a water bottle and hurled it toward the stands. The bottle struck a child who was being held by a woman sitting a few rows behind the team's bench. Cooley immediately apologized after the game and said he would reach out to the family.

A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty Thursday to unlawfully purchasing a semi-automatic pistol for an unlicensed individual who later fired it near a public school and was arrested in connection with a "large-scale car theft enterprise," federal prosecutors said. Isaiah Johnson, 24, of Merrimack, N.H., admitted guilt on one count of firearm trafficking by unlawful delivery, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a statement.

A 31-year-old man was sentenced to five years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl throughout the Bay Area, in a case where authorities say he was arrested inside a home that contained 54 pounds of the deadly drug. Darwin Licona, of Oakland, pleaded guilty to a federal fentanyl trafficking charge, stemming from a traffic stop in 2023, in Oakland, where more than two pounds were recovered, according to court records.

The Online Tool Center explained, that little barcode on the bottom contains all of your personal information, which is used when you scan your passport, allowing "border control officers and other authorities to quickly retrieve and verify your details such as your name, nationality, and passport number." The website noted the barcode also contains a ton of useful information that agents can use to assist you if your passport is stolen.