A man who escaped a Puerto Rican prison nearly 40 years ago was taken into custody in Florida, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Jorge Milla-Valdes escaped from a Puerto Rican prison in 1987. The Puerto Rico Department of Justice believed he was living under the name Luis Aguirre. His criminal history included robbery…
For the last 130 years, four generations of Ernest Lepore’s family have baked the pastries – cream puffs, cannoli, sfogliatelle – that have come to define Manhattan’s Little Italy neighborhood, withstanding wars, economic downturns and drastic changes to the neighborhood that his family calls home. But with the soaring cost of eggs – a staple…
The Department of Government Efficiency is sifting through $1.6 trillion worth of Social Security payments — records that include a person’s name, birth date and how much they earn — in an anti-fraud effort that has advocates worried the Trump administration could start denying payments to vulnerable older Americans. Details on the effort were confirmed…
Several active research grants related to studies involving LGBTQ+ issues, gender identity and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are being canceled at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) because they allegedly do not meet the “priorities” of the current administration. Starting last week, at least 24 termination letters were sent to researchers at various universities…
Betsy Arakawa, the wife of the late Gene Hackman, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, New Mexico officials said Friday. The confirmation of her cause of death ends weeks of mystery after both Arakawa, 65, and Hackman, 95, were found dead inside their Santa Fe home on Feb. 26, with no obvious signs of how they…
The causes of deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were revealed by officials on Friday, more than one week after the couple was mysteriously found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home. Hackman, 95, died of cardiovascular and Alzheimer’s disease likely around Feb. 18, about one week after his wife…
President Donald Trump on Friday, after decrying Russia’s latest strikes on Ukraine and threatening sanctions until it stopped attacking, also said he thought Vladimir Putin would be “generous” in peace talks and described Ukraine as “difficult.” Answering questions from reporters in the Oval Office, Trump, while repeating that sanctions threat he posted earlier in the…
The U.S. added fewer jobs than economists expected in February, the first full month under President Donald Trump, according to government data released on Friday. Employers hired 151,000 workers last month, falling short of expectations of 170,000 jobs added. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.1%, which remains a historically low figure. The stock market…
It took just a spark, and it was gone. Not just a home, but entire neighborhoods and communities were largely wiped off the map following the spate of January wildfires that devastated southern California. The impact of the destruction was felt far beyond the borders of these communities and the tens of billions in damage…
Earlier this month, Kerry Doyle sat in a Boston-area courtroom to observe a routine deportation hearing — one of thousands of similar proceedings that take place in immigration courts across the country each day. It was the final step before Doyle, 59, would herself join the ranks of America’s roughly 700 immigration judges. She was…
