The Justice Department officially moved Monday to claim a 348-foot superyacht it says belongs to a sanctioned billionaire oligarch known as the “Russian Gatsby.” In a civil forfeiture claim filed in federal court in New York, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams’ office said that the $300 million vessel, the Amadea, is “beneficially owned” by Suleiman Kerimov…
Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Wednesday that he is delaying by five years a ban on new gas and diesel cars that had been due to take effect in 2030, watering down climate goals that he said imposed “unacceptable costs” on ordinary people. The move angered green groups, opposition politicians and large chunks of…
Workers at Detroit’s “Big Three” automakers may soon hit the picket line. The Detroit Free Press reported that the 150,000 members of the United Auto Workers have “have given union leadership the OK to strike” against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis if an agreement isn’t within reach by the end of the current contract, which…
A man driving a full-size bull named Howdy Doody in the passenger seat of his car was pulled over by police in Nebraska on Wednesday after a stunned onlooker reported the odd sight, authorities said. Officers in Norfolk, about 120 miles northwest of Omaha, were dispatched at 10:05 a.m. CDT answering a call for a…
What Trump’s four indictments tell us about America | View caption Hide caption What’s more, Mr. Trump faces felony charges, both federally and in Georgia, that go right to the essence of democracy: alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. In that light, presidential historians say, the United States is at a turning point,…