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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 Brooklyn Coffee Shop’s Clever Blend Outside Sign offers a $6 gelato and espresso “Recession Special.”Lisa Kailai Han | CNBCFearing that slowing the economy will lurk in the background, some companies have noticed and are regaining what is called a recession special.Find out the term “recession special” through Google’s search engine. The list of results includes entries from the Great Recession nearly 20 years ago.Consider this 2008 Grub Street article. Or, this 2009 story from The New York Times offers a food recession special restaurant across New York as an act of survival.Fast forward to 2025, and the facility’s crops…

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…

Tourists take photos when they visited the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona on August 2, 2025. Manaure Quintero | AFP | Getty ImagesSpain’s booming economy is overtaking European neighbours as tourism, foreign investment and immigration help fuel growth.Southern European countries are still growing in the eurozone, with annual gross domestic product expected to increase by 2.5% this year, while the economies of France, Germany and Italy are projected to expand by 0.6%, 0% and 0.7% respectively.Spain’s GDP surpassed expectations in the second quarter, up 0.7% and surpassed Reuters forecasts of 0.6%. Data from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE)…

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…

IE 11 is not supported. Visit a different browser site for the best experience.I’m playing nowGhislaine Maxwell Interview Transcript released by the Department of Justice03:31nextTrump says he supports DOJ being “completely open” about Epstein’s investigation01:19Trump touts how how to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup boost the US economy00:57″I’m not happy” after strike at a US factory in Ukraine01:22JD Vance says “Not at all” FBI search for John Bolton’s home driven by Trump’s retaliation02:58Powell’s forecast of interest rate reductions sends market surges01:04Home and office of John Bolton, former national security adviser in FBI search03:22Trump calls former advisor John Bolton “low…

The Dubai Pistachiocnafa Chocolate Bar is on display in Maple, Ontario, Canada on May 11, 2025.nuphoto | nuphoto | Getty ImagesChocolate enthusiasts are facing another price hike due to the delays that the cocoa market hit retailers, but better news may be available until the next Easter.Cocoa prices have skyrocketed in recent years, reaching record highs amid harmful weather conditions, pest outbreaks and the strength of West Africa’s supply, which has produced about a quarter of the global supply.That trend, combined with wider retail price inflation around the world, drives up consumer costs and reduces the demand for sweet treats…