Billy McFarland charged with scheming to defraud investors in his company, Fyre Media
The promoter behind a failed music festival in the Bahamas has been arrested in New York on a wire fraud charge.
Federal prosecutors say Billy McFarland was arrested on Friday and is charged with scheming to defraud investors in his company, Fyre Media.
Defense secretary Jim Mattis gives armed forces until December to assess effects on military readiness and rejects calls for two-year deferral
Defense secretary Jim Mattis is giving the military another six months to conduct a review to determine if allowing transgender individuals to enlist in the armed services will affect its “readiness and lethality”.
Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said Mattis made the decision on Friday. The delay in allowing the enlistment of new recruits does not affect transgender troops who are already serving openly in the military.
South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae-In says Trump accepts offer to visit Seoul, but they did not map out joint strategy on how to deal with North Korea
President Donald Trump declared that the US had run out of patience with North Korea over its nuclear drive as he welcomed South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae-In to talks at the White House.
While Moon has been arguing for greater engagement with Pyongyang as the best way to put the brakes on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Trump made clear that he was in no mood to pursue diplomacy with a regime he accused of having no respect for human life.
An effort to gather voters’ details to prevent alleged fraud has been met with a furious backlash, as states fear an attempt at mass voter suppression
An attempt by Donald Trump’s newly convened commission on election integrity to gather detailed information on the country’s voting population prompted a furious backlash on Friday, as at least 19 states either resisted the request on privacy protection grounds or flat-out rejected it as a backdoor effort at mass voter suppression.
In a letter sent to the states on Thursday, the commission’s vice-chair, Kris Kobach, asked for comprehensive lists including names of voters, addresses, voting histories, party affiliation, criminal histories, military status and more. The letter did not spell out how the commission intended to use this information, but in an interview with the Kansas City Star newspaper, Kobach said he wanted to “quantify different forms of voter fraud and registration fraud and offer solutions”.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A growing number of U.S. states refused on Friday to give voters’ names, addresses and sensitive personal information to a commission created by President Donald Trump to investigate alleged voter fraud, saying the demand was unnecessary and violated privacy.
Resistance against the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare may have reached a critical mass this week – but there’s more work to be done
When we asked our readers how they were protesting the healthcare bill this week, people from across the country got in touch to tell us about their efforts, many with stories about how the repeal of Obamacare would affect them and their families personally.
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Got a minute? After criticizing Trump, Morning Joe hosts say they got calls explaining how to make hit piece go away … states defy Trump voter commission … and everything in US politics. By Tom McCarthy
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A day after Donald Trump insulted Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on Twitter, they told a story on air about how White House aides, they said, had called to pressure them to lay off Trump.
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The tabloid National Enquirer, which is published by a friend of Trump, had been harassing Brzezinski’s family for a story, the pair said. Trump’s aides said the Enquirer would go away if Scarborough apologized to Trump, the co-host said.
Venus Williams is being sued by the estate of a Florida man who died after a car crash police say she caused.
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Authorities have no information on whether anyone was killed after gunfire broke out on Friday afternoon at Bronx Lebanon hospital
Police said multiple people had been shot at a New York City hospital. The gunfire broke out at 2.50pm on Friday inside the Bronx Lebanon hospital in the Bronx borough.
Police had no immediate information on whether anyone was killed. Television images showed the hospital surrounded by police cars and fire trucks.
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