Nearly $1 million lottery prize claimed in Poconos
Monroe County lottery player wins $925,843.50 Cash 5 with Quick Cash jackpot on ticket sold in Pocono Township Middletown, PA – A Pennsylvania Lottery player in Monroe County is holding a ticket…
Bridgewater draws more investors in China, nearly doubles assets
By Summer Zhen and Samuel Shen HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Hedge fund Bridgewater Associates’ China business is set to grow to about 40 billion yuan ($5.56 billion) following a fresh round of…
Nearly Half Of California Dems Say Border Isn’t Secure Under Biden: POLL
Nearly Half Of California Dems Say Border Isn’t Secure Under Biden: POLL Jake Smith on January 17, 2024 Nearly half of California Democrats believe that the southern border is not secure under…
Nearly half of European investors seek to cut property exposure, survey finds
LONDON (Reuters) – Nearly half of investors in Europe plan to cut their real estate allocations, according to a survey by trade body INREV, as a slide in valuations driven by higher…
Nearly Half Of Iowa Trump Supporters Are ‘Extremely’ Enthusiastic — Plurality Of Nikki Haley Backers Only ‘Mildly’ So
Nearly Half Of Iowa Trump Supporters Are ‘Extremely’ Enthusiastic — Plurality Of Nikki Haley Backers Only ‘Mildly’ So Will Kessler on January 13, 2024 Former President Donald Trump still maintains a strong…
Court Orders Donald Trump To Pay Nearly $400,000 To New York Times
Court Orders Donald Trump To Pay Nearly $400,000 To New York Times Katelynn Richardson on January 13, 2024 A New York judge ordered former President Donald Trump Friday to pay $392,638 in…
Navy Soldier Jailed By Japan Released After Nearly 18 Months
Navy Soldier Jailed By Japan Released After Nearly 18 Months Mary Lou Masters on January 12, 2024 A Navy soldier who was imprisoned by Japan after being involved in a fatal car…
Venezuela’s 2023 inflation hit nearly 190%, but December prices barely ticked up
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s annual inflation rate settled at 189.8% last year, according to data from the central bank released on Friday, marking a slight easing of the still sky-high rate of…
Biden Admin Pours Nearly $700,000 Into Program To Prevent Transgender Boys From Getting Pregnant
Biden Admin Pours Nearly $700,000 Into Program To Prevent Transgender Boys From Getting Pregnant Brandon Poulter on January 11, 2024 The Biden administration has dished out nearly $700,000 to support the creation…
Thai Dec consumer confidence at high of nearly 4 years on govt measures, tourism
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai consumer confidence rose in December, reaching the highest level in 46 months, boosted by government measures to ease living costs and increased tourism, a survey showed on Thursday.…
DOJ Has Shelled Out Nearly Four Times More Taxpayer Dollars On Trump Investigations Compared To Biden Probe
DOJ Has Shelled Out Nearly Four Times More Taxpayer Dollars On Trump Investigations Compared To Biden Probe Jake Smith on January 6, 2024 The Department of Justice (DOJ) has spent significantly more…
Nanuet Store Sells Winning TAKE 5 Ticket for Nearly $20K
NANUET, NY – Fortune has smiled on a lucky lottery player in Nanuet as the New York Lottery announced a top-prize winning ticket for the TAKE 5 Midday drawing on January 3.…
US job cuts fall back in December but nearly double for all of 2023
By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. employers slowed layoffs in December, with the fewest announced job cuts since July, although the total for all of 2023 was the highest since…
North Jersey Man Wins Nearly Half a Million from $5 NFL Parlay Bet
In an extraordinary display of luck and sports insight, a North Jersey man, Travis Dufner, turned a $5 bet into almost half a million dollars. Dufner defied incredible odds of nearly 9.8…
Illinois Lottery Player Wins Nearly $900K in Fast Play Twenty 20s Game
CHICAGO, IL — The festive season has brought exceptional luck to an Illinois iLottery player who won a massive jackpot of $880,164 in the Fast Play Twenty 20s game. The fortunate online…
British man accused of swindling nearly $100 million in wine fraud case pleads not guilty
(Reuters) – A British man accused of allegedly defrauding investors of nearly $100 million through a Ponzi-like scheme involving nonexistent luxury wines pleaded not guilty in a U.S. court on Saturday. Stephen…
Jury Determines Rudy Giuliani Owes Nearly $150 Million In Damages In Defamation Case
Jury Determines Rudy Giuliani Owes Nearly $150 Million In Damages In Defamation Case Katelynn Richardson on December 15, 2023 A jury determined that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani owes nearly $150 million…
Recovery of Nearly a Kilo of Fentanyl in Scarborough Leads to 13 Year Sentence for Massachusetts Man
PORTLAND, Maine: A career offender from Lawrence, Massachusetts was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for possessing 400 grams or more of fentanyl with intent to distribute. Chief Judge Jon D.…
Nash County Duo Sentenced After Theft of Nearly Sixty Firearms Leads to Their Arrest
WILMINGTON, N.C. – A Nash County man who bought and sold stolen guns from a Nashville resident was sentenced today to 130 months in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of…
Nearly a fifth of Gaza’s buildings destroyed or damaged: UN estimate
GENEVA (Reuters) – Nearly 40,000 buildings or about 18% of all pre-conflict structures have been damaged or destroyed in the Gaza Strip since the conflict began on Oct. 7, a U.N. assessment…
US puts visa curbs on those it accuses of ‘anti-democratic’ moves in Guatemala
WASHINGTON/GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -The U.S. government announced measures on Monday to punish what it has described as anti-democratic moves by officials including Guatemala’s top prosecutor that seek to annul the election won…
Clothing Wholesaler Ordered to Pay Nearly $10.4 Million for Violating U.S. Drug Trafficking Sanctions and for Customs Fraud
LOS ANGELES – A Paramount-based clothing wholesale company was fined $4 million, ordered to pay $6,390,781 in restitution, and placed on probation for five years for undervaluing imported garments in a scheme…
Newark Man Missing For Nearly Three Months
NEWARK, NJ — The Newark Department of Public Safety is intensifying efforts to find 59-year-old Maurice Mccullers, reported missing since August 21, 2023. Mccullers, an African-American male, 6’0” tall and weighing 200…
UK starting salaries rise at slowest pace in nearly 3 years: survey
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Starting salaries for newly appointed employees in Britain rose at the slowest pace since March 2021 last month, according to industry data that offered some comfort…
US mortgage rates fall to nearly 4-month low – Freddie Mac
(Reuters) – Interest rates on the most common type of U.S. home loan fell for a sixth straight week to the lowest in almost four months on the back of a bond…
Riverside County Woman Sentenced to Nearly 3½ Years in Federal Prison for $2.8 Million Unemployment Insurance Scam
SANTA ANA, California – A Riverside County woman who participated in a scheme that used stolen identities to fraudulently apply for just over $2.8 million in unemployment insurance (UI) benefits from the…
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