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July 20, 2021 at 2:54 pm

NXIVM guru to pay for victims’ brand removal as restitution

NEW YORK (AP) — The unrepentant former leader of the cult-like NXIVM group was ordered on Tuesday to pay $3.5 million to 21 victims of...

Debris covers the ground after a tornado struck Wednesday, the on-base RV park on Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay on Thursday, July 8, 2021 in Kings Gay, Ga. Severe weather from Tropical Storm Elsa spurred tornado warnings in Delaware and New Jersey early Friday as the system moved over the mid-Atlantic states and into the northeastern United States. (Mass Communication 3rd Class Aaron Xavier Saldana/U.S. Navy via AP) GAHO103 GAHO103

July 8, 2021 at 11:38 pm

Elsa soaks NYC and New England as it races up East Coast VIEW

A tropical storm warning Friday morning stretched along parts of the East Coast from New Jersey to Massachusetts. Elsa previously battered Georgia and was blamed...

July 8, 2021 at 1:18 pm

Lawyers granted slight delay in opening of R. Kelly trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for R&B singer R. Kelly were granted a little more time Thursday to prepare his defense for his upcoming sex-trafficking...

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Donald Trump, along with his son Donald Jr., arrives for a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, as Allen Weisselberg, center, chief financial officer of Trump Organization Inc., looks on, on Jan. 11, 2017. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images/TNS) 19966880W 19966880W

June 30, 2021 at 10:08 pm

Trump Organization, CFO indicted on tax fraud charges VIEW

Donald Trump’s company and its longtime finance chief were charged Thursday in what prosecutors called a “sweeping and audacious” tax fraud scheme in which the...

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FILE – In this Monday, April 8, 2019, file photo, actress Allison Mack leaves Brooklyn federal court in New York. Mack, who played a key role in a scandal-ridden, cult-like upstate New York group, is facing sentencing Wednesday, June 30, 2021, after pleading guilty to charges she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for the groupâ€™s spiritual leader. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) NYSB225 NYSB225

June 29, 2021 at 10:15 pm

Actor Allison Mack gets 3 years in NXIVM sex-slave case VIEW

TV actor Allison Mack, who played a key role in the scandal-ridden, cult-like group NXIVM, was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday on charges...

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June 28, 2021 at 1:27 pm

Trump Org lawyers make last pitch against prosecution

Lawyers for the Trump Organization met again Monday with prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in a last bid to forestall a potential indictment...

June 15, 2021 at 2:02 pm

Jack Weinstein, legal maverick on federal bench, dead at 99

NEW YORK (AP) — Jack B. Weinstein, a former federal judge who earned a reputation as a tireless legal maverick while overseeing a series of...

June 2, 2021 at 4:23 am

Even after Madoff’s death, work to unwind epic fraud goes on VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — Epic Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff is dead. But the effort to untangle his web of deceit lives on. More than...

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May 11, 2021 at 2:32 pm

Feds: Ex-NYC officer charged with bribery sent racist text

NEW YORK (AP) — A white New York City police officer once bragged about trying to scare Black people for kicks by randomly pointing his...

April 28, 2021 at 1:53 pm

Man linked to Capitol riot convicted of threats to lawmakers

NEW YORK (AP) — A social media agitator was convicted Wednesday on federal charges of threatening to kill members of Congress, a verdict that rejected...