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McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work for opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma, according to court papers filed in Virginia

CBI investigation into the case on Friday after two key suspects got bail from a court. The Sealdah court granted bail to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital's ex-principal Sandip Ghosh and former officer-in-charge of the Tala police station Abhijit Mondal in the rape and murder case of the on-duty doctor. They were granted bail after the CBI failed to file a charge sheet against them within the mandatory 90-day period.

A Danish court has sentenced a British hedge fund trader to 12 years in prison in connection with what authorities say was a 9 billion kroner ($1.3 billion) tax fraud, Danish justice officials confirmed

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“The Bibi Files” started with a sudden leak that turned into a deluge

former US President Bill Clinton actually discussed the possibility of US President Joe Biden preemptively pardoning his wife named Hillary Clinton amidst threats of further investigations from US President- elect Donald Trump ally Kash Patel, reported Daily Beast. According to Daily Beast, Bill Clinton eventually emphasized on the fact that Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong at all regarding the email controversy while noting that the State Department of Donald Trump actually found no evidence of her sending classified emails from her personal device. He also expressed his severe skepticism about the need for a pardon while suggesting that any accusations made by Kash Patel would likely be fabricated.

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

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...

Robert Payas, along with other ex-LTTE personnel based abroad, have been trying to revive it in Tamil Nadu since 2019, as per the investigation by agencies. NIA in 2022 carried out searches and came across the involvement of Suresh Raj and Soundar. «Accused Soundar had voluntarily confessed that his uncle Balan Jayakanthan, an ex-LTTE cadre, instructed him to meet Robert Payas (an accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case) for monetary assistance for his education and Robert Payas, in turn, instructed him to meet Sabesan, an ex-LTTE cadre and through Sabesan, the two developed an association and indulged in subversive activities,» the order stated.

The fire is believed to have originated in the reception area on the ground floor, with a short circuit suspected as the cause. The flames quickly spread throughout the building, engulfing multiple floors. Firefighters battled the blaze for over an hour, working tirelessly to bring it under control. «Unfortunately, the victims succumbed to suffocation due to the thick smoke that filled the hospital,» said a spokesperson from the fire service. Rescue teams are still on the ground, continuing their search for patients who may be trapped inside the building.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Monday told Syria that it is under obligations to comply with rules to safeguard and destroy dangerous substances, such as chlorine gas, after rebels entered the capital, Damascus, over the weekend. «Chemical weapons have been used in Syria on multiple occasions and victims deserve that perpetrators that we identified be brought to justice and held accountable for what they did and that investigations continue,» Fernando Arias Gonzalez, the OPCW secretary general, said in his opening remarks.

NIA team along with Assam STF raids several locations in Goalpara district and nabbed four suspects in JeM money laundering case. Sources in Assam police said, “The suspects, identified as Joynal Abedin, Shahanur Alam, Abu Taleb, and Shahanur Islam, were apprehended during night raids conducted in Hansilapara, Barpahar, Balbala, and Tukde.Couple of months’ back one mufti, Sheikh Sultan Salludin Ayubi have received money from JEM and was arrested by NIA Delhi in connection with money laundering on behalf of Jaish-e-Mohammed accounts in Kashmir. Joynal is a cleric in a mosque.”

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.

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.

Peterborough police say they finally have a breakthrough.The homicide of the Otonabee River man – revealed on Wednesday to be Gerald Durocher – has mystified investigators ever since the grisly discovery was made by members of a recreational dive club more than three decades ago.It was on July 10, 1988, when the divers took to those waters in Peterborough and found a human head at the bottom of the river some 130 feet from shore.Shortly after the discovery, which was made near Lock and McKellar streets, police launched an extensive air and underwater search to locate the rest of the body. However, to this day, it was never found.On its website, police said that through investigation at the time, they determined the head belonged to a man roughly between 40 to 74 years of age.“Some lower molars were missing and had been lost well prior to death.

While ruling out suicide, officials said, “in the state he was in, he did not know what he was doing and could not understand it.” The 31-year-old One Direction star was at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires. Investigators believe Payne was in a state of “semi- or total unconsciousness” during the fall. He did not appear to try to protect himself, according to the report from the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office released November 7.

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) was apprehended after he illegally crossed over into the Indian territory along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. «One PoK national Saliiq son of Khalid resident of Bandi Abbaspur deliberately crossed over into Indian Territory. Alert troops of the Indian Army deployed on the Line of Control in the Gulpur sector apprehended the PoK national while he was illegally crossing into Indian Territory,» the Poonch Police said. Further investigation is underway and more details are awaited.

Senate Democrats failed in their bid to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after the Senate rejected a razor-thin vote that hinged on the pivotal rejections of independent Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Si...

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