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Two Canton, Ohio, police officers have been indicted in connection with the death of Frank Tyson, a 53-year-old Black man, while under restraint in April, authorities announced Saturday. File Photo by Pixabay Nov. 2 (UPI) — Two Canton, Ohio, officers have been charged with reckless homicide in connection with the April death of Frank Tyson, […]
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel who is facing drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court, appeared for the first time Friday before the judge who is presiding over his case. Zambada, 76, appeared at a status conference in Brooklyn federal court before […]
In 2002, Ryan Wedding competed in the men’s parallel giant slalom snowboarding event for Canada at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. He’s now being pursued by federal agents under a U.S. operation dubbed Giant Slalom. Adam Pretty/AP hide caption toggle caption Adam Pretty/AP Ryan Wedding, who represented Canada in snowboarding at the Salt Lake […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed four people, authorities said Thursday. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and extradition of Ryan James Wedding, a […]
Texas is preparing to put a man to death Thursday in what would be the nation’s first execution involving a case of “shaken baby syndrome,” a diagnosis that has been re-evaluated in more recent years, leading to the overturning of similar convictions. Robert Roberson, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. TD Bank has agreed to pay the US government just over $3bn to settle charges that it failed to block criminal organisations from using the Canadian lender to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through […]
Amnesty International Canada will contribute its expertise to court proceedings about the landmark Black Class Action lawsuit. In a decision dated February 8, Federal Court Associate Chief Justice Jocelyne Gagné granted Amnesty International Canada’s request to deliver arguments in the Black Class Action case, which targets systemic anti-Black racism in the federal public service. In […]
(Bloomberg) — US futures slipped following a report that the US Justice Department is considering a breakup of Alphabet Inc.’s Google search engine, signaling an antitrust crackdown on Big Tech. Most Read from Bloomberg The S&P 500 contracts fell 0.3%, while Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.5% after a rebound on Wall Street driven by gains […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US government is considering asking a district judge to break up Google for its antitrust violations in online search, in what would mark federal prosecutors’ boldest effort yet to rein in one of the […]
(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s case accusing Amazon of stifling competition in online retail will move forward, though some of the states that sued alongside the agency had their claims dismissed, court documents showed. U.S. District Judge John Chun in Seattle unsealed his ruling from Sept. 30, which dismissed some of the claims […]