NEW YORK (AP) — Police in the suburbs of New York City made the first arrest under a new local law banning face masks, officials announced Tuesday. Nassau County Police say officers on Sunday night responded to reports of a suspicious person on a street near the Levittown and Hicksville town line, about 30 miles…
The 2024 NFL season kicks off Sept. 5 with the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs hosting the Baltimore Ravens. That means it’s time for our annual ranking of the league’s top 100 players. What can we expect from the game’s best players this season? To create our list, we asked a panel of…
Many VC funds, especially recent vintages, have failed to return money to their investors. Swiss VC firm Redalpine is one exception, and this largely explains why its newly announced $200 million seventh early-stage fund was oversubscribed. Redalpine Capital VII, or RAC VII, is already well under way to back 15 to 20 European early-stage companies,…
Quebec City is beautiful. While it’s regularly overlooked in favor of bigger destinations like Toronto and Montreal, this is where European explorers first arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. A cultural hub in the province of Quebec (as well as the province’s capital), the city’s Old Town is one of the best preserved in…
Pavel Durov, the CEO and founder of messaging app Telegram, was detained in Paris on Saturday as part of an ongoing French investigation into financial and cyber crimes. On Monday, French officials said he remains under arrest, though he has not been charged with any crime. French President Emmanuel Macron denied the arrest was politically…
It’s a bad year for mosquito-borne illnesses: Mosquitoes carrying Eastern equine encephalitis are prompting people in Massachusetts to stay indoors at night. Dr. Anthony Fauci was hospitalized earlier this month with West Nile virus. And record numbers of dengue fever cases are spreading globally, including in Puerto Rico and other parts of the U.S. Experts…
In a setback for Illinois Democrats and Gov. JB Pritzker, the Illinois Supreme Court has upheld a downstate judge’s ruling that found unconstitutional a Democrat-passed law preventing the slating of legislative candidates for the November election in races where political parties did not field contenders. The high court’s ruling Friday was not typical of the…
The shining moment came on an autumn afternoon beneath a gray Cleveland sky. On Sept. 23, 2021, the Chicago White Sox won the first game of a doubleheader 7-2. That victory clinched the franchise’s first division title since 2008. But because the game in question was the first of a twin bill, White Sox players…
A holding company affiliated with an Emirati royal family is injecting a new joint venture between Abu Dhabi-based Marlan Space and startup Loft Orbital with over $100 million to grow the region’s domestic satellite manufacturing capabilities. The joint venture, called Orbitworks, will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass manufacture…
Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign updated its online biography of running mate Tim Walz’s military service amid Republican efforts to question his record in the Army National Guard. On its website, the Harris campaign axed a reference to Walz as a “retired command sergeant major” and now says that he once served at the command sergeant…
