Category: Everydaynews


  • Man Sentenced to 44 Years in Prison After Pleading Guilty to Qaeda Ties

    A man who pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges nine years ago after being accused of plotting a suicide bombing at Heathrow Airport in London in support of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate was sentenced on Tuesday to 44 years in prison. Prosecutors said that the man, Minh Quang Pham, planned the bombing after having received…

  • Daniel Penny Is Hired by Venture Capital Firm Whose Founder Backed Trump

    Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide in Manhattan in December, has been hired by one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms to join its “American Dynamism” team. Mr. Penny, a Long Island native and former architecture student, will work in a group that supports American interests,…

  • West Bank? Call It Judea and Samaria, Some Republicans Say.

    Donald J. Trump’s return to power as president has bolstered right-wing lawmakers in Israel and the United States who support Israeli annexation of the West Bank, an occupied territory long seen by Palestinians and the international community as part of an eventual Palestinian state. On Friday, Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced bills…

  • Trump Said Palestinians Should Leave Gaza

    President Trump declared today that Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have “no alternative” but to leave the enclave because of the devastation wrought there by Israel in its war with Hamas. Trump suggested that Jordan and Egypt should take in the Palestinians. “I don’t know how they could want to stay,” the president said.…

  • L.A. Faces Pressure From Wealthy Residents as the Pacific Palisades Rebuilds

    The Pacific Palisades — the Los Angeles community where more than 6,800 structures were destroyed and nearly 1,000 were damaged in the California wildfires — is among the wealthiest enclaves in the United States. The average household income is $375,000, three times the city average, and the typical home is worth $3.7 million. The community…

  • Collector Sues David Geffen to Reclaim a Sculpture Worth Millions

    An art collector is suing David Geffen for the return of a valuable Giacometti sculpture that the collector says was sold without his knowledge by his art adviser as part of an elaborate fraud. In the court papers filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, Justin Sun, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur and art collector,…

  • Proposal Calls for Restoring Tulsa Massacre Neighborhood

    Years before the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a long-fought lawsuit seeking reparations to compensate the last two centenarian survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the lead lawyer and a team were already working on a larger plan to repair century-old harms. On Tuesday, Damario Solomon-Simmons unveiled Project Greenwood, a sweeping plan to restore the city’s…

  • After the Fires, Los Angeles Has No Shortage of Reconstruction Czars

    Los Angeles was still burning two weeks ago when Mayor Karen Bass turned to one of this city’s most prominent developers and asked him to serve as her rebuilding czar after vast parts of the region were leveled by wildfires. Steve Soboroff, a longtime civic leader and onetime resident of the Pacific Palisades, the coastal…

  • The Aga Khan IV, Wealthy Leader of the Ismaili Muslims, Dies at 88

    The Aga Khan IV, who as the leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims fused entrepreneurship and philanthropy in becoming one of the world’s wealthiest hereditary rulers, died on Tuesday in Lisbon. He was 88. His death was confirmed by his Aga Khan Development Network in a post on X, the social media site. No cause…

  • Opinion | Don & Elon’s Excellent Adventure? Only China Is Laughing.

    When I look at the torrent of executive orders and tariffs President Trump has issued since taking office, I fear that I’m watching the real-life version of that Certified Financial Planner Board commercial that tries to show why expertise really does matter. In the commercial, a surgeon comes into a hospital room and meets his…