A woman who died after being set on fire on a New York City subway train this month has been identified, according to police. The woman was identified as 61-year-old Debrina Kawam of Toms River, New Jersey, according to the New York Police Department. Kawam was sleeping on a stationary F train at the Coney […]

LONDON — The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, with its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday. The Micronesian nation was soon followed into 2025 by the Chatham Islands in New Zealand at 5:15 a.m. ET. Most of the rest of New […]

The fund disbursing money to the victims of Bernie Madoff’s legendary Ponzi scheme began its 10th and final distribution on Monday, putting another $131 million in the pockets of swindled investors. Twenty-three thousand victims worldwide are receiving payments, bringing their total recoveries to 94% of their losses. Most of these victims were smal

The man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a California woman in a case that became known nationwide as the “Gone Girl” kidnapping has now been charged with other break-ins and assaults from years earlier, prosecutors announced on Monday. Matthew Muller — who pleaded guilty in 2016 to kidnapping Denise Huskin

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threw his support behind Speaker Mike Johnson amid a fight over the House gavel that will culminate in a vote at the end of the week. “Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man,” Trump wrote at the end of a lengthy social media post. “He will do […]