NEW YORK — The former top executive of a New York City homeless housing group that is one of the city’s largest was arrested and charged Wednesday with conspiracy, honest services wire fraud and money laundering. The charges against Victor Rivera were announced by U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss, who said Rivera accepted kickbacks and bribes for years. “Victor Rivera sought […]

Ministers order Union Jack to fly on ALL government buildings all year round ‘as a proud reminder of our history and the ties that bind us’ Robert Jenrick has written to all English councils to fly the Union flag at all times in a bid to ‘unite the nation’ Flags are currently only flown on government buildings on specific days […]

Fox News Flash top headlines for March 24 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Lorena Schulte, a 50-year-old nurse, and Robert McFarland, a 46-year-old correctional officer, were killed Tuesday morning when two inmates at Iowa’s Anamosa State Penitentiary attempted to break out of the prison with hammers and other tools.  “Two public servants were taken […]

A GIRL born with one hand was REFUSED disability payments by the DWP leaving her mother “struggling to live”. Kacey Bailey-Clarke, 15, and her mother, Toni, 33, from Ilkeston, claim they’ve been “fighting” for years for the payments to be restored after they were stripped from her. Kacey had been receiving £200 each month while her mother had been getting […]

“GREED is good!” That was the mantra of Michael Douglas’s horrible character Gordon Gekko in the hit film Wall Street. 🦠 Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates… The movie came out towards the end of the 1980s. When we were all sick to the back teeth of city boys making millions by moving money around. It had […]

A new "double mutant" of Covid-19 has been detected in samples in India, health officials have claimed. Experts in the western state of Maharashtra are now working to understand whether or not it could be more infectious and resistant to vaccines. 🦠 Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates… It is believed that the variant has two mutations […]

REVEALED: ‘Bagel Karen’ filmed calling black cashier a ‘b**** a** n****r’ when he asked her to put on mask is a Trump-supporting anti-mask crusader who says she’s a public school teacher and can’t be racist because she’s ‘39% Nigerian’ Stephanie Denaro, 38, of Queens, New York confirmed she’s the ‘Bagel Karen’  Denaro called a black cashier a ‘b**** a** n****r’ […]

Illustration: Andrew DysonCredit: To submit a letter to The Age, email [email protected]. Please include your home address and telephone number. PARLIAMENTARY QUOTAS The call for quotas in the selection of Liberal politicians as a solution to the appalling culture in the Federal Parliament (“Shift on quotas for women,” The Age, 24/3) fails to place the responsibility for the behavioural change […]

A STATUE created in your likeness should be a great honour – but sometimes the results can be a little jarring. The rogues gallery of unfortunate statues gained a new entrant this month when the University of Winchester announced a new £24,000 sculpture of activist Greta Thunberg. Puzzled locals have asked why Ms Thunberg was chosen as the Swedish teen […]

Britain bounces back from Covid as PMI shows fastest growth since August amid vaccine rollout – smashing expectations of economists PMI figures show fastest growth since August as UK recovers from coronavirus Growing optimism about prospects following the fast vaccine rollout in Britain The PMI level was far higher than economists had expected but from low base  Britain looks to […]