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The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs all while the Florida Republican was a member of Congress.

Syria said Monday the country's new authorities were «very receptive» to its request for cooperation during a just-concluded visit to Damascus, and it is preparing to deploy. The visit led by Robert Petit, head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria, was the first since the organisation was established by the UN General Assembly in 2016.

Shaan in Bandra West, Mumbai in the early hours of Tuesday. The fire broke out on the seventh floor and the singer stays on the eleventh floor.

In Nigeria, the first part of a $1 billion project to clean up Ogoniland in the Niger Delta, where there have been thousands of oil spills, was a “total failure.”

Government safety regulators are closing an investigation into two previous recalls of the Ford Focus after determining that Ford Motor Co. has satisfied its concerns

Punjab terror conspiracy case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested a key aide of Khalistani terrorist Lakhbir Singh alias Landa and gangster Bachitar Singh alias Pavitar Batala, according to an official statement. Jatinder Singh alias Jyoti of district Gurdaspur, Punjab, had been absconding since the arrest of weapons supplier Baljit Singh alias Rana Bhai in July 2024.

Enforcement Directorate has asked officials to not rely just on the provision of "criminal conspiracy" while registering a money laundering case, but also add more sections such 66(2) of the PMLA to ensure they stand the court scrutiny, official sources said Monday. The directions come after multiple recent court rulings, including by the Supreme Court, stated that section 120-B of the IPC (now 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023) cannot be a standalone "predicate offence" for registering a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, and that a "scheduled offence" under the PMLA should accompany its application.

Delhi High Court on Monday refused to grant anticipatory bail to former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar in the criminal case lodged against her for alleged cheating and wrongly availing of OBC and disability quota benefits in the civil services examination. «Anticipatory bail plea is dismissed. Interim protection from arrest is vacated,» Justice Chandra Dhari Singh said while ruling on the plea.

Sunny Leone. Virendra Joshi is accused of receiving Rs 1,000 monthly deposits intended for beneficiaries of the Mahtari Vandan Yojana. This scheme, implemented by the BJP government, provides Rs 1,000 per month to married women in the state. The fraud was discovered in Talur village, Bastar district. District Collector Haris S has ordered an investigation and the seizure of the bank account. Officials stated that media reports brought the fraud to light. The incident triggered a political clash between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress. State Congress chief Deepak Baij claimed, «over 50 per cent of beneficiaries under the Mahtari Vandan Yojana are fake.»

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has fined two IAS coaching centres a total of ₹9 lakh for issuing misleading advertisements related to the results of the UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2022, two people said. It fined Vajirao & Reddy Institute ₹7 lakh and Shubhra Ranjan IAS Study ₹2 lakh.

«The helicopter fell to the ground after having struck the fourth storey of a hospital during take-off,» killing two pilots, a doctor and an employee on board the vehicle, Mugla provincial governor Idris Akbiyik said. «There was intense fog,» Akbiyik said, adding that the authorities were investigating the accident's cause.

Authorities have now identified the suspect as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old Saudi psychiatrist who has been living in Germany for approximately 20 years. Following the attack, German officials condemned the act, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz calling it a «terrible, insane» tragedy, particularly just days before Christmas. Scholz visited the site of the attack in Magdeburg on Saturday, alongside other national and regional politicians, laying flowers outside the main church. A memorial service was planned at the city’s Johanneskirche church later that evening, where mourners gathered to pay tribute to the victims.

According to the Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Maheshwar Nag, a truck ferrying around 45 people met with the mishap near village Chandameta under Darbha police station limits in Jagdalpur. After learning about the mishap, CRPF rushed to the spot and carried out rescue exercises, said the Police.

In an official press release, the MEA expressed deep sorrow over the tragedy, stating, «We condemn the horrific and senseless attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. Several precious lives have been lost, and many have been injured. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims.» The statement confirmed that the Indian Mission in Germany is in contact with the injured Indian nationals and their families, providing all possible assistance. «Our Mission is in contact with Indians who are injured, as well as their families, and rendering all possible assistance,» the statement read.

The alleged attack Friday evening in Magdeburg, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of Berlin, killed a 9-year-old and four adults and injured 41 people badly enough that authorities warned the death toll could rise. Magdeburg marked the tragedy Saturday with the tolling church bells at 7:04 p.m., the exact time of the attack in the city of roughly 240,000 people.

However, for many of the city's citizens, all of that craziness has now vanished and transformed into sheer grief. Others are experiencing high levels of tension, and some are wondering if they will be better protected in the future. It is now dark in the Christmas market. It has been cordoned off completely. There is a lot of anger regarding security, and there is a lot of grief among many people right now.

Google Maps cameras have captured some pretty interesting photos in the past, preserved on the mapping software for the world to find, but this time the images have given police an extra clue in the arrests of two people in connection with a murder investigation.The images in question were captured by a Google Maps car camera in October, in which a man can be seen hunched over the trunk of a car on a nearly deserted street in Spain, loading a large, bulky object wrapped in what appears to be a white sheet or bags.Police say they believe the object is tied to the death of a Cuban national living in Spain who was reported missing by a relative in late 2023.According to newspaper El País, the man had been living in the northern Spanish municipality of Soria, where he had turned up hoping to track down a woman believed to be his partner.The relative of the missing man contacted police, saying he’d received some suspicious text messages from the man’s phone saying he’d met another woman and would be leaving Spain and ditching his phone.“This made the complainant suspect that the messages had not been sent by the missing person and led him to report it to police,” police said in a statement.Last month, according to Reuters, a man and woman were initially arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. On Dec.

Federal officials investigating the deadly West Texas collision between at Union Pacific train and a tractor-trailer hauling a wind turbine base are trying to determine why the tractor-trailer was stopped on the tracks

Luigi Mangione is currently in custody of the NYPD for the alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which shook the entire country, while a manhunt for the killer went on or days until Mangione was nabbed very recently. He is now lodged into a Brooklyn prison, which is one of the most dangerous ones in the entire US, and even lodges alleged sex trafficker and hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs, as per reports.