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Two masks of the Indigenous community of the Kogi from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia are displayed at the presidential palace in Berlin on June 16, 2023.Markus Schreiber/AP BERLIN Germany handed over to Colombia on Friday two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been in a Berlin museum's collection for more than a century, another step in the country's restitution of cultural artifacts as European nations reappraise their colonial-era past.

It doesn't take long after announcing a data breach for companies to become targets of class-action lawsuits.One such company, Miramar-based Managed Care of North America Dental, reported on May 26 that it suffered a ransomware breach between Feb. 26 and March 7 that affected 8.9 million individuals.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released on Thursday its 25th semi-annual report to Congress, which compiles information about the work the office has done to ensure the agency's actions align with its mandated mission and highlights results in its investigative reports, including indictments, arrests and criminal fines including restitution and civil forfeiture.

The Ancona family was the last to leave Russell City, an unincorporated town outside of Hayward annexed to the city in 1968, after its 1,400 majority Black and Latinx residents were forced to leave the year earlier.But Lita Ancona didn't plan to let the city's bulldozers tear down her home.So, before she left, she burned it to the ground.

What, exactly, is a boneless chicken wing?Is it a wing from an actual chicken, with the bones removed for easier snacking?Or is it a chunk of succulent breast meat molded into the shape of a wing?Whatever the answer, it's a topic that wing enthusiasts have long debated, often over a beer or three.It is also the subject of a class-action lawsuit brought this month against Buffalo Wild Wings by a Chicago-area man who claims the restaurant chain is falsely advertising its boneless wing products, which he says are more like chicken nuggets.

A Chicago woman was sentenced to just over five years in prison after fraudulently obtaining the identities of dozens of dead people, from infants to adults, and using the information to steal more than $45,000 of government funds, according to prosecutors and court records.The woman, Katrina Pierce, acquired more than 36 death certificates for murder victims in Illinois ranging from 2 to 22 years old from 2019 to 2021 by pretending to be related to them, according to court records.

Ramesh Balwani, the former chief operating officer of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for defrauding investors and patients about the company's business and technology.Mr. Balwani, 58, and his convicted co-conspirator, Elizabeth Holmes, 38, the founder of Theranos, had promised that the start-up would revolutionize health care with machines and tests that could detect some illnesses using just a few drops of blood.

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A former East Flatbush United States Postal Service worker has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for postal theft after she stole $4 million in blank money orders, the U.S. Attorney's office announced on Wednesday.

Todd Chrisley, left, and his wife, Julie Chrisley, pose for photos at the 52nd annual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 2, 2017, in Las Vegas.Jordan Strauss/Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP ATLANTA  Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced Monday to lengthy prison terms after being convicted earlier this year on charges including bank fraud and tax evasion.

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When a couple of convicted L.A. swindlers abandoned their three children and fled with the family dog to Montenegro in 2021, the distraught teenagers' aunt, Gohar Abelian, took the kids into her home.It was the second time she'd come to the rescue since the children's parents, Richard Ayvazyzn and Abelian's sister Marietta Terabelian, were arrested in 2020 for running an $18-million pandemic relief scam: To keep the couple out of jail, Abelian had spent more than $100,000 on bail bonds.

A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the Holocaust.The Moravian Museum in the Czech city of Brno has had the original manuscript for the fourth movement of Beethoven's String Quartet n B-flat Major, Op. 130 in its collection for more than 80 years.

Rally 4 Reparations attendees listen to Dr. Kaba Kamene deliver his speech.Dee Dwyer for NPR When photographer Dee Dwyer attended the Rally 4 Reparations in Washington, D.C., she heard from people across the country about what reparations from slavery in the United States means to them.Here is what she was told.

The director of a southern Indiana funeral home where 31 decomposing bodies and the cremains of 17 others were found pleaded guilty Friday to more than 40 counts of felony theft.Randy Lankford, owner of Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center in Jeffersonville, faces a proposed sentence of 12 years: four years in prison and eight years of home incarceration, Clark County Circuit Court Judge N. Lisa Glickfield said.

Water utilities will be required to routinely test for toxic forever chemicals, and spend billions upgrading treatment plants to filter them, under the first-ever national limits intended to protect Americans from widespread threats to human health and the environment.In Illinois alone, the drinking water of more than 660,000 people is contaminated at levels exceeding the proposed standards for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS.

A Texas man who joined other rioters at the U.S. Capitol trying to break into the Speaker's Lobby, where a woman who was a part of the mob on Jan. 6, 2021, was fatally shot by the police, was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly seven years in prison, the Justice Department said.The man, Christopher R. Grider, 41, of Eddy, Texas, had also tried to shut off the electricity at the Capitol, pressing buttons on an electric utility box while yelling, Turn the power off! according to prosecutors.

A Mississippi man has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for burning a cross in his front yard to intimidate a Black family, according to a news release from the US Justice Department.Axel Cox, 24, was sentenced to 42 months in connection to the cross burning, which happened in December 2020 and violated the Fair Housing Act, the release said, adding Cox admitted that he lit the cross on fire because the victims were Black and that he intended to scare them into moving out of the neighborhood.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, center, walks into court in San Jose, Calif., on Friday alongside her mother, Noel Holmes, and partner, Billy Evans.Philip Pacheco/Getty Images Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the medical technology startup Theranos, returned to court Friday to argue that she should remain free on bail while she pursues an appeal of her conviction for wire fraud and conspiracy.

A U.S. federal judge on Friday will decide whether disgraced Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes should serve a lengthy prison sentence for duping investors and endangering patients while peddling a bogus blood-testing technology.Holmes's sentencing in the same San Jose, Calif., courtroom where she was convicted on four counts of investor fraud and conspiracy in January marks a climactic moment in a saga that has been dissected in an HBO documentary and an award-winning Hulu TV series about her meteoric rise and mortifying downfall.

SAN FRANCISCO A former Richmond Police Department sergeant received a two-year felony formal probation Monday after violating the terms of his guilty plea in 2021, authorities said.San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced the sentence against Phillip Sanchez in a statement.Sanchez pled guilty in 2021 to a felony vandalism charge after authorities said he fired his gun several times while intoxicated at San Francisco's Four Seasons Hotel in 2017.

Former President Donald Trump released a campaign video on Tuesday titled Higher Education, in which he outlined plans to seize the endowments of any college or university practicing affirmative action.Trump began by raging against the Marxist takeover of higher education and vowed to change how colleges and universities are accredited so that higher education will reflect values that defend the American tradition and Western civilization.

OTTAWA Canada said on Saturday that it had agreed to pay 2.8 billion Canadian dollars, about $2 billion, to settle the latest in a series of lawsuits seeking reparations for the harm done to Indigenous people through a system of mandatory residential schools that a national commission called cultural genocide.

A yeshiva in Brooklyn will pay more than $8 million in penalties for defrauding the government and siphoning off federal benefits meant to feed disadvantaged school children.The Central United Talmudic Academy (CUTA) in Williamsburg, New York State's largest private Hasidic Jewish school, diverted millions of dollars from a variety of government programs, subsidized adult parties, paid teachers off the books, and requested reimbursements for student meals it never actually provided.

A Chicago man's lawyers are sharing news with every publication they can that Buffalo Wild Wings's marketing misleads consumers when it comes to its boneless chicken wings.In a class-action lawsuit filed last week, the plaintiff claims the sports bar chain's menu and commercials lead "reasonable consumers" to believe the company's boneless wings are deboned chicken wings "comprised of entirely chicken wing meat," when in reality they're glorified chicken nuggets.

The ceremonial return of 21 Benin bronzes to Nigeria by Germany last month gave the latest powerful signal of how fast the international tide is turning on the repatriation of looted art.The German handover followed an American one two months earlier, when the Smithsonian Institution signed over 29 bronzes in Washington.

A file image from 2013 provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement shows financier Jeffrey Epstein.AP The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges in a lawsuit filed this week that JPMorgan Chase "turned a blind eye" to evidence that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein used the bank to facilitate sex-trafficking activities on Little St. James, the private island he owned in the territory until his 2019 suicide.

Ronald S. Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir and art collector, will continue to own a well-known painting by Gustav Klimt, which he has held for 50 years, after agreeing to the restitution and repurchase of the work from the heirs of a Jewish woman who had owned it before World War II.Terms of the purchase, which followed several years of research into the painting's history, were not disclosed.

Pope Francis will return to Greek hands three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for two centuries, the Vatican said in a statement on Friday.The fragments  a head of a horse, a head of a boy and a bearded male head  will become the property of Archbishop Ieronymos II, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, the statement added.

The University of Cambridge will return looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria.The 116 artefacts, which are mainly made of brass but also include some ivory and wooden objects, were taken by British armed forces during the sacking of Benin City in 1897.During the attack, the British burned the city's palace and exiled Benin's Oba, or king, with thousands of brasses and other works  collectively known as the Benin bronzes'  taken and later sold off in London to recoup the costs of the military mission.

Boris Johnson has criticised a publisher's rewriting of some language in Roald Dahl's stories by reciting a song by the Oompa-Loompas.The former prime minister expressed his irritation at wokeness and political correctness after Puffin made extensive changes to the author's work to remove language it deemed offensive.

In the flurry of headlines surrounding the "Varsity Blues" scandal, it might have been easy to overlook Donna Heinel.The 61-year-old Southern California woman was not like dozens of others charged in the nationwide scam, not a big-time college coach nor a wealthy executive, nor a famous television actress.

Sunny Balwani, seen arriving at federal court in San Jose in March, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, Dec. 7, on a dozen counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.Sunny Balwani, the one time second-in-command to disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is set to be sentenced Wednesday as the saga of the blood-testing start-up draws to a close.

Twenty-one precious artefacts that were looted by British soldiers from the former west African kingdom of Benin 125 years ago have been physically handed over by Germany to Nigeria amid laughter, tears, and some audible frustration with the ongoing silence of the country that first stole them.The objects from the haul of treasures known as the Benin bronzes, including a brass head of an oba (king), a ceremonial ada and a throne depicting a coiled-up python, were taken from the sacked city during a British punitive expedition in 1897 and later sold to German museums in Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Cologne.

Sunny Balwani, former Theranos executive and romantic partner of Elizabeth Holmes, has been sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison over his role in the now-defunct blood testing firm.The sentence is slightly longer than that given to Holmes just a few weeks ago, who was his accomplice in one of Silicon Valley's biggest scandals.

Meta is putting up a stink in the face of a bill that's working its way through Congress, and is currently folded in to a defense-spending authorization package, which would give journalistic content creators the ability to seek payments from Meta for using their content.It's been over six years since we were debating Facebook's utility as a news aggregator, in the face of rampant misinformation and lies from then-candidate Donald Trump.

A London museum's signing over of its collection of objects looted from the Kingdom of Benin is "a really great day for us", the head of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments has said.The Horniman Museum in London is the first in the UK to officially do this in such numbers.

Miles Bridges, who played for the Charlotte Hornets last season, pleaded no contest to one felony domestic violence charge of injuring a child's parent, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said Thursday.He will be placed on three years' probation but will avoid jail time as part of a plea agreement.