In the days following Luigi Mangione's arrest, guards at the Pennsylvania prison where he was detained were told not to take their eyes off him, lest an Epstein-style situation occur with the most high-profile murder suspect in the U.S. on their watch, a Manhattan judge heard Monday. The testimony was provided by Correction Officer Tomas Rivers from SCI Huntingdon, Pa., at an evidence hearing in the Manhattan district attorney's case against Mangione,
Numerous reasons for the selling on Monday, not the least of which is that the market is still way overbought, and while most expect the Federal Reserve to lower rates by 25 basis points next week, there is still a chance they push the next cut out to January. One thing is for sure: if National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett becomes the next Fed Chairman, we could see rates go much lower in 2026.
"The article discussed peers using teasing as a way to enforce gender norms. I do not necessarily see this as a problem. God made male and female and made us differently from each other on purpose and for a purpose. God is very intentional with what He makes, and I believe trying to change that would only do more harm," Fulnecky wrote. "Overall, reading articles such as this one encourage [ sic] me to one day raise my children knowing that they have a Heavenly Father who loves them and cherishes them deeply and that having their identity firmly rooted in who He is will give them the satisfaction and acceptance that the world can never provide for them."
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... OAKLAND BART suffered major delays Monday night after a person died on a train in Oakland, officials said. The incident was reported around 6:15 p.m. at the West Oakland station. The Alameda County Coroner's Office was called to the scene, said BART spokesperson Michelle Robertson, adding that foul play is not suspected in the death. No other details about the incident were released.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
2000Thousands of Starbucks baristas are on strike across the US, warning the world's largest coffee chain to brace for the longest and biggest bout of industrial action in its history. Barely a year after Brian Niccol, the Starbucks CEO, tried to draw a line under bitter divisions between its management and unionized workers, pledging to engage constructively with them, the American coffee giant is now grappling with an escalating strike during its lucrative holiday trading season.
NEW YORK -- The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $740 million for Monday's drawing. There were no big winners in Saturday's drawing. The winning numbers in that drawing were: 19-22-30-32-59 and the Powerball was 1. The jackpot has not been won since Sept. 6 when two tickets in Missouri and Texas split $1.787 billion. The overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9.
Geyser was 12 in 2014 when she pleaded guilty to stabbing a sixth-grade classmate to appease the mythical Slender Man. Geyser, now 23, was picked up 24 hours later 100 miles away at a truck stop outside Chicago in the company of 43-year-old Chad Charley Mecca, a transgender woman. She had cut off her monitoring ankle bracelet. Mecca said in a phone call to the Wisconsin news outlet WKOW, she ran because of me.
Edgar Coc-Sacul, 24, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He had originally been charged with two felonies, contacting a minor with intent to commit a sex crime and sending harmful material to a minor, but those charges were dropped in a plea deal, court records show. Coc-Sacul was sentenced to one year of probation, given one day of credit for time served in jail, and ordered to stay away from the victim, according to court records.
Shares of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ( NYSE: SPY) fell 0.8% on Monday, coinciding with a sharp deterioration in retail investor sentiment. SPY's social sentiment score dropped to 35 out of 100 earlier today, down from a neutral 57.3 just last week. That's a 39% collapse in sentiment in under seven days. Discussions on Reddit show growing pessimism about equity valuations, debt concerns, and a rotation into defensive assets like gold. Meanwhile, speculative options activity remains elevated, a classic warning sign before corrections.
Seven juveniles, all 13 to 15 years old, were arrested following a police chase involving stolen cars in Norwood on Saturday. Around 1:50 a.m., two vehicles outran an officer trying to stop the vehicles on Route 1 north after they both made an illegal U-turn out of a Mobil gas station near Dean Street, according to Norwood police. The officer was able to catch up with the vehicles and the run the license plate numbers.
ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- The Detroit Lions have placed second-year cornerback Terrion Arnold on the injured reserve list with a shoulder injury, which will sideline him for at least four games. Arnold, 22, has started in seven of his eight appearances this season, logging 31 total tackles, eight passes defended and an interception. He missed Monday's practice after being injured in the Thanksgiving Day loss to the Green Bay Packers.
The 25-year-old man who died after an incident in Norwood Saturday actually sustained injuries from a sharp object, not a gunshot wound, officials said. Anton C. Dowling, of Boston, was identified as the man who died at a Needham hospital from what emergency room doctors initially believed to be a gunshot wound, the Norfolk County District Attorney said in a release.
Unionized baristas at Blue Bottle Coffee staged a multi-day strike over the Thanksgiving shopping weekend, intensifying a year-long contract fight with the Nestle-owned company. Roughly 120 workers across nine unionized cafes in greater Boston and California's East Bay walked off the job beginning Wednesday, Nov. 26, in the strike organized by the Blue Bottle Independent Union (BBIU), the group said.
During the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic downturn, many people couldn't pay their transportation costs, and often didn't. In New York City in 2021, some 21 percent of bus riders did not pay the fare, a figure that grew to 48 percent in 2024. Some local governments, including New York City, responded with reduced or free fare programs. From 2023 to 2024, New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) ran a zero-fare bus pilot that served around 43,000 riders. The pilot, championed by then-assembly member Zohran Mamdani, offered free trips on one bus in each borough.
