The company behind popular dating site OkCupid has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, or FTC.  The commission alleged Match Group Americas shared users’ personal data with a third party without permission from those users. The group that got hold of the private data is an AI firm with […]

Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler was twice awarded the Medal of Honor, the first for distinguished conduct during the 1914 occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, and the second for his 1915 actions in Haiti.

Israeli police and Catholic Church leaders sought to ease tensions ahead of Easter after a Palm Sunday incident in which senior church officials were briefly blocked from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The church is known for holding the tomb of Jesus. Israeli police said the restrictions were imposed during the war with […]

Christie Mulholland’s patient was dying.  As a palliative care physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, most of her patients come to her in the final stretches of their lives, looking for comfort and a painless end.  Mulholland’s patient wanted to leave the hospital and spend her final days in a hospice facility, a […]

President Donald Trump says he has no issue with a Russian oil tanker delivering fuel to Cuba, and the administration signaled it had no plans to stop it. The vessel, owned by the Russian government and sanctioned by the U.S., the European Union and the United Kingdom, carries more than 700,000 barrels of oil and could […]

The U.S. weighs seizing Iran’s oil and a key export island as the war enters week five. Plus, a Russian oil tanker heads to Cuba with more than 700,000 barrels of fuel, and with President Donald Trump’s blessing. And Transportation Security Administration workers are expected to start getting paid again this week. The question now […]

President Donald Trump says if a peace deal is “not shortly reached” with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen immediately, the U.S. will completely obliterate “all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island.” It comes just a day after Trump said he’s weighing whether to seize Kharg Island, telling […]

NEW YORK — On Tuesday, Barry Cozart appeared in a New York criminal court on burglary charges. Since he couldn’t make bail, a judge sent him back to Rikers Island, one of the most notorious jails in America. On Wednesday morning, the 39-year-old was dead. A correction officer who found Cozart unresponsive in his cell […]

President Donald Trump provided new details about plans to construct a military complex beneath the White House ballroom. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One as he returned to Washington from Florida, Trump explained the project and its purpose. Trump speaks on military complex Holding a large cardboard placard showing a rendering of the finished […]