Author: Leslie Stewart

CHICAGO – Chicago mayors are defying the threat of President Donald Trump, deploying National Guard to wind cities to fight crime and scoping legal measures to prevent soldiers from overtaking the city. On Friday, Trump spoke about the controversial deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., saying Chicago and New York City are coming next. He described the deployment of the country’s capital as a bid to clean up crime, but critics dismiss the move as nothing more than a political overreach.”We don’t need security guards,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson told NBC News. “This is not our military role.…

The heir to one of Canada’s wealthiest family is her ex-best friend, “lost everything,” and now an Uber driver, who is suing to represent herself in court. Taylor Thomson, the 66-year-old middle child of the billionaire Thomson family, and Ashley Richardson, the former California mom, at 47, were the best friends who enjoyed life in Los Angeles after meeting for the first time at a 2009 house party in Malibu. However, the rosy relationship collapsed in 2022, when psychic advisors pointed out to invest in crypto tokens that crashed within a year. Thomson accused her friends of making hundreds of…

The son of “The Walking Dead” star Norman Reudus was arrested and charged on Saturday on suspicion of assault in an apartment in New York City.Mingus Reedus, 25, pleaded not guilty to five charges Saturday, on court records show. The model faces charges of third-degree assault, recklessly causing assault, breathing criminal filibuster, second-degree harassment and aggravated harassment.Officers responded to an ongoing assault in Manhattan’s Chelsea area at 8:40 a.m. Saturday, the New York Police Department said. The 33-year-old woman was observed with “minor injuries” on the neck and legs.She was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where Mingus Reeds was taken into…

Opinion: Dipendra Jain, co-founder of TCXRegulations have now become a cryptographic baseline. The debate from US regulations enforcement to Dubai’s comprehensive crypto rulebook and India’s new debate on the formalization of Bitcoin reserves is rewriting the rules of digital finance. As the listed institutions, retailers and social networks focus on digital asset rails, stubcoins and yield mechanisms, the actual story is no longer the next, but the ones building what comes next. Speculation once encouraged adoption, but structured compliance catalyzed scale across eastern corridors across Asia. Hubs like the United Arab Emirates and India represent the treatment of regulations as…

Hong Kong – An English-filled version of the world’s best-selling animated film, “Ne Zha II,” a Chinese blockbuster hit, has been released in the US with an audio cast that includes Michelle Yeo.Inspired by Chinese mythology, the film opened in more than 2,500 American theatres on Friday. It’s the latest in a wave of successful animation featuring Asian culture, including Netflix’s recent hit, “KPOP Demon Hunters.”The sequel to the hit film Ne Zha II, released in 2019, tells the story of a child Demigod named Ne Zha, who rebels against the innate demons and chooses to use his magical powers…

Police have identified five people killed in a tour bus crash in western New York on Friday.The New York State Police said in a news release on Saturday that Shankar Kumar Jah, 65, of Madhu Bani, India. 60-year-old Pickey Chanrani from East Brunswick, New Jersey. Xie Hongzhuo, 22, Beijing, China, student at Columbia University. Zhang Xiaolan, 55, of Jersey City, New Jersey. And then Jian Mingli, 56, of Jersey City, died after crashing.The tour bus travelling from Niagara Falls to New York City became out of control and fell sideways along an interstate park near Buffalo. Authorities say the bus…

The Republican-controlled Texas Senate passed the party’s new congressional map overnight, completing the legislative odyssey that involved significant democratic delays and caused a nationwide scramble of rezoning in the process. The vote means a map designed to fill the Republican majority in the US Congress and will take effect when it signs it by Gov. Greg Abbott, a supporter of the plan supported by President Donald Trump.Democrats have pledged to challenge the action in court.Trump initially called for Texas to redraw the map of Congress, saying his party is “entitled” five more congressional seats from the state. That’s what the…

Open this photo in the gallery:On a summer day of 2022, a lonely, troubled young man appeared in a courtroom in Hamilton and said he was “very sorry” after stealing $48 million in cryptocurrency. “I’m going to move forward positively,” he said.His lawyer said the 19-year-old now wants to work in cybersecurity and “the right way for this case to go round.”The judge sentenced the young man to one year of probation, taking into account the years he had already spent in detention and the fact that he was 17 when he committed the act. A young person not appointed…

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“Old Town Road” rapper Lil NassX was arrested early Thursday morning and taken to the hospital after walking into the streets undressed as a Los Angeles official. The Los Angeles Police Department told NBC News that officers responded to the 11,000 block of Ventura Boulevard before 6am regarding the nude man’s report. Police said officers were charged when the man arrived at the scene.”He was taken to a local hospital due to an overdose and was placed in a battery arrest by officers,” police said. Law enforcement, well-versed in the investigation, confirmed with NBC News that the suspect was Montero…