NEW YORK (AP) — Cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for misleading investors who lost billions when his company’s crypto ecosystem collapsed in 2022. Kwon, known by some as “the cryptocurrency king,” pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court in August to fraud charges stemming from Terraform Labs’ $40 billion crash. The […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — World shares were mixed on Thursday after the U.S. stock market again approached its record high following the Federal Reserve’s cut in its main interest rate. The Fed’s rate cut was widely expected, but comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell encouraged hopes for more cuts in 2026. However, some Asian technology […]
Regional police are asking for the public’s help as they continue to investigate a murder from 70 years ago. On Dec. 9, 1955, at roughly 2 a.m., police responded to a report from a taxi driver about a delivery van parked in an unusual manner on Acadia and Roome streets. Police said Michael Leo Resk […]
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Opposition leader María Corina Machado said Thursday that she doesn’t believe the Venezuelan government knew where she was hiding for most of this year, as she met Norway’s leader a day after her daughter received the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Machado arrived in Oslo hours after Wednesday’s prize ceremony […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Joel Brennan, a former top official in Gov. Tony Evers’ administration, announced Thursday that he is running to succeed the two-term Democrat, joining a crowded primary field for the 2026 election. Brennan, president of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, told The Associated Press that he would be a governor who both fights […]
A Halifax-area park is being fenced off after a homeless encampment was cleared on Wednesday morning. The municipality de-designated Lower Flinn Park as a shelter location in early November and told people tenting there that they had to leave by Dec. 7. “Since that time, municipal Community Safety staff…have been working with all of the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A library under construction in South Korea collapsed on Thursday, leaving one worker dead and three others trapped under the rubble, officials said. Four workers were initially buried in the collapse in the southern city of Gwangju. One of them was pulled out but later declared dead at a nearby […]
GOMA, Congo (AP) — More than 400 civilians have been killed as the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continues its offensive in Kivu province in eastern Congo, regional officials said late Wednesday, adding that Rwandan special forces were in the strategic city of Uvira. M23’s latest offensive comes despite a U.S.-mediated peace agreement signed last week […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s former acting leader Choi Sang-mok was indicted Thursday on charges related to the brief imposition of martial law in December 2024 by then-President Yoon Suk Yeol, becoming the latest high-profile figure embroiled in legal troubles over the case. Choi is one of three top Yoon administration officials who […]
An iconic Nova Scotia family and business’ story will become an animated feature film. Peace By Chocolate owner, Tareq Hadhad said in a social media post that the project will be telling the family’s story of moving from Damascus, Syria, to Nova Scotia. The movie will be called Shokolata and produced by Rising Tides Films, […]