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By Laura Curtis and James Mayger | Bloomberg News The messages arrive via WhatsApp and email, promising a deal that seems too good to be legal: a way to move goods from China to the U.S. while avoiding President Donald Trump’s tariffs. For Michael Kersey, president of the American Lawn Mower Company, these solicitations represent…
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By FREIDA FRISARO, Associated Press Crews in South Florida were trying to contain a wildfire in Big Cypress National Preserve that had burned more than 25,000 acres near an immigration detention facility as of Wednesday. The fire caused periodic lane closures due to smoke and poor visibility on the stretch of Interstate 75 known as Alligator…
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HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s government said Wednesday that its soldiers killed four people aboard a speed boat registered in Florida that opened fire on officers in Cuban waters. Cuba’s Interior Ministry issued a statement that provided few details about the shooting, but noted that the boat was roughly 1 mile northeast of Cayo Falcones, off…
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By JACK DURA, Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has said he will order Greenpeace to pay damages expected to total $345 million in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline from nearly a decade ago, a figure the environmental group contends it cannot pay. In court papers filed…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has hired Luigi Mangione and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers to represent him at his third New York rape trial, reshaping his legal team after declining to end the matter with a guilty plea. The lawyers, Jacob Kaplan, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, confirmed…
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By ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — China’s government intervened and helped get charges dropped against three Chinese scientists at the University of Michigan who were accused of helping a colleague smuggle biological materials into the U.S., defense lawyers said. The materials turned out to be mostly tiny, transparent worms — nothing dangerous —…
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The kitchen. (Photo by Teigen Media) The great room with a fireplace in the background. (Photo by Teigen Media) The bar. (Photo by Teigen Media) A view of the great room from the bar area. (Photo by Teigen Media) Floor-to-ceiling glass seamlessly connects the interior with the outdoors. (Photo by Teigen Media) The primary bedroom…
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Tony Cortez is back on his horse, training three to four times a day and feeling good about where he is headed. For the unbeaten 24-year-old mixed martial artist, promoted by Combate Global, contemplating the alternative can be traumatic. “It’s scary to talk about,” Cortez said a week out from his sixth professional MMA bout…
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By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The World Trade Center’s final office tower will start construction as soon as this spring and become American Express’ new headquarters, Gov. Kathy Hochul and the company said Wednesday, marking a milestone nearly 25 years after the Sept. 11 attacks destroyed the site. The 2 World Trade…
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Before the formal ceremony began, Trevor Murphy collected himself. There he is, seated alone at a long table in Thailand’s Office of National Museums in Bangkok. The ancient artifacts are neatly displayed to his left; the speech he’s been waiting so long to deliver is on a sheet of paper before him. “It is with…
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