Abu Dhabi – President Donald Trump’s national security adviser warned Iran on Wednesday that any attacks in the Persian Gulf will draw a “very strong response” from the U.S., taking a hard-line approach with Tehran after his boss only two days earlier said America wasn’t “looking to hurt Iran at all.” John Bolton’s comments are [...]

Lumpkin, GA Most of the year, Marty Rosenbluth lives alone in a small house in Lumpkin, a Georgia town with 2,000 residents and one restaurant. It’s 500 miles away from his wife and community in North Carolina. Then he drives two miles down the road to a place even more isolated: the Stewart Detention Center, [...]

Parma, Italy – The police huddled for hours each day, headphones on, eavesdropping on the doctor. They’d tapped his cellphone, bugged his office, planted a camera in a trattoria. They heard him boast about his power to help Big Pharma make millions pushing painkillers, and about all the money they say he was paid in [...]

Boston – A plan to develop an acoustic system to chase away seals in order to prevent shark attacks is the latest front in the debate about how Cape Cod should respond in the wake of last year’s shark attacks. Deep Blue LLC presented the idea for an “invisible fence” to the Barnstable County Commissioners [...]

New York – A federal judge has approved Ruth Madoff’s $594,000 settlement with the court-appointed trustee who is liquidating her husband Bernard Madoff’s firm and raising money for the swindler’s victims. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stuart Bernstein in Manhattan authorized the settlement on Tuesday. The accord calls for Ruth Madoff, 78, who was not charged over [...]

San Diego – A San Diego hospital on Wednesday revealed the birth of a girl believed to be the world’s tiniest surviving baby, who weighed just 245 grams (about 8.6 ounces) before she was discharged as a healthy infant. The baby named Saybie was born at 23 weeks and three days and was sent home [...]

Taos, NM – A U.S. group building what it claims is the first private wall on the Mexican border wall on Wednesday said it had stopped construction after a New Mexico town ruled the project lacked necessary permits. Sunland Park, New Mexico, on Tuesday ordered We Build the Wall to stop erecting the steel barrier [...]

Rye, NY – The FBI Westchester County Safe Streets Task Force announced today, along with the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office and Haverstraw Police Department, that Eugene Palmer (DOB: 4/4/1939) has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Palmer is wanted on a federal warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in [...]

New York – Just days after a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max nosedived in Indonesia and killed all 189 people aboard, an Ethiopian Airlines pilot began pleading with his bosses for more training on the Max, warning that crews could easily be overwhelmed in a crisis and that one of their planes could be the [...]

Doonbeg, Ireland – In a small corner of Ireland’s west coast Donald Trump means jobs. And the locals are getting ready to line the street with the Stars and Stripes to express their gratitude when he visits next week. Like in Britain, where Trump has been promised demonstrations on his first European stop, a number [...]