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Up to $60,000 in reward money from the FBI and the New York Police Department's Crime Stoppers program was offered for tips leading to a break in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in New York has prompted health care companies to rethink and increase security for executives

Fourteen North Korean nationals have been indicted in a scheme using information technology workers with false identities to contract with U.S. companies, workers who then allegedly funneled their wages to North Korea for development of ballistic missi...

Middle East have suggested a major shift in power dynamics specifically regarding US influence under US President Joe Biden. According to Independent, following the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu swiftly occupied several villages in the Golan Heights while citing threats from anti-Israel militant groups. Independent reported that this certain action has been severely criticized as a violation of international law and the response of Joe Biden administration has been eventually perceived as really weak while the State Department officials have framed the military actions of Israel as something temporary. Also Read: Who is Bettina Anderson? The Florida socialite who was spotted holding hands with Donald Trump Jr.

When asked about a U.S. law that generally prevents the military from being used in domestic law enforcement, Trump said illegal immigration amounted to an invasion that needed to be stopped. «I consider it an invasion of our country,» Trump told TIME as part of an interview naming him 'Person of the Year.' «We'll get National Guard, and we'll go as far as I'm allowed to go, according to the laws of our country.» Trump, a Republican, won reelection in November portraying migrants as dangerous criminals and promising a wide-ranging crackdown on both legal and illegal immigration, including mass deportations. He plans to pull resources from across the federal government for the deportation effort and declare a national emergency to unlock funds for enforcement, reported in November.

Donald Trump's pick to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has claimed the first casualty from his hit list of 60 people who he thinks are the main actors of the deep state. FBI Director Christopher Wray will resign at the end of the Biden administration, the agency said on Wednesday. Wray was appointed by Trump in 2017 during his first term after Trump fired then director James Comey. After Trump's re-election, he announced several appointments among whom was Kash Patel as the next FBI Director. Since Wray had a 10-year term ending in 2027, Trump's announcement of Patel as FBI head left Wray with two options: leave on his own or be fired when Trump takes charge. Trump and his allies turned on Wray and the FBI after agents conducted a court-approved search of Trump’s Florida resort in 2022 to recover classified documents that he had retained after leaving office. Trump had called it weaponization of the agency which he said was part of a deep state conspiracy aimed at undermining his presidency.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits jumped to their highest level in two months last week but remain low relative to historical standards

US Department of State has announced a significant update to the Exchange Visitor Skills List, effective December 9, 2024, eliminating the two-year home residency requirement for J-1 visa holders from 34 additional countries, including India, China, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. However, the update does not apply to J-1 holders bound by government funding or participation in graduate medical education programs, which continue to have restrictions. This marks the first major revision of the list in 15 years and aims to enhance opportunities for global talent retention in the United States.

steel imports, Union Steel Minister H D Kumaraswamy said on Thursday. «The process is going» on the ministry's proposal to impose a 25 per cent duty on steel imports, Kumaraswamy told PTI on the sidelines of an event here. On December 2, the steel ministry in a meeting with the commerce department had proposed for a 25 per cent safeguard duty on certain steel products imported into the country. The steel minister and Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal were present in the meeting. A final call on imposing the duty can be taken by the finance ministry on recommendations of the ministry of commerce.

India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing an orange alert in four districts of the state for the day. The IMD sounded the orange alert in Kollam, Ernakulam, Idukki and Thrissur districts. The weather department also issued a yellow alert in eight districts of the state for the day. An orange alert means very heavy rain (6 cm to 20 cm). A yellow alert means heavy rainfall between 6 and 11 cm.

Hannah Kobayashi, the missing Hawaii woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search and a missing persons investigation in Los Angeles, has been found safe, police said Wednesday.Kobayashi vanished last month in Los Angeles. Other details about her disappearance, as well as where and how she was found, were not immediately available Wednesday, but police previously said she had voluntarily crossed the border into Mexico.“We are happy to learn that Hannah has been found safe,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement.

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office has promised to pay a private security company $1.4 million after some of its employees walked out of the jail in August

FBI Director Chris Wray will step down from his post early next year, the bureau said on Wednesday, after Republican President-elect Donald Trump signaled his intent to fire the veteran official and replace him with firebrand Kash Patel. Trump himself had appointed Wray, a fellow Republican, to his 10-year term in 2017, after firing his predecessor James Comey, who the then-president soured on over the FBI's investigations into alleged contacts between his 2016 campaign and Russia. «After weeks of careful thought, I’ve decided the right thing for the Bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current Administration in January and then step down,» Wray told FBI employees today, the agency said in a statement.

A two-year-old child in Fresno, California, accidentally shot and killed his 22-year-old mother, Jessinya Mina, on Friday evening. The incident occurred at Butterfly Grove Apartments. The toddler accessed an unsecured 9mm handgun and fired a single shot, striking his mother. Police Investigati

A former TD Bank employee in the U.S. is facing criminal charges for allegedly using their position at the financial institution to facilitate money laundering — the second time this year a former worker has been charged.

In a written reply to Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Food and Consumer Affairs B L Verma said, the Department of Agriculture constituted a fact finding committee to look into allegations of irregularities in the procurement of onions under Price Stabilisation Fund (PSF) by National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED). The department, vide OM (office memorandum) dated 4th November, 2024, «conveyed the suggestions that concerned district administration should be involved in the procurement process to ensure transparency and local oversight, to adopt biometric based verification of farmers, and payment to registered farmers bank account through Aadhaar Enabled Payment system», he added.

Macy’s is tightening financial accounting measures after completing a probe of a rogue employee who hid $151 million in delivery expenses over a span of nearly three years

The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $144 million in grants to fund 13 projects in California to help the state phase out big rigs that run on diesel

Google on Wednesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence designed to tackle more of the work and thinking done by humans as it tries to stay on technology’s cutting edge while also trying to fend off regulatory threats to it internet empire

The U.S. Department of Justice has arrested and charged another former Toronto-Dominion Bank employee with conspiracy to launder money, the latest in a string of charges tied to the lender’s massive compliance failures at its American retail business.