Author: Jennifer Peltz
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Charges are dropped midtrial in ‘Hotel California’ lyrics case. Don Henley plans to fight on
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A prosecution centered on the ownership of a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to Eagles hits like “Hotel California” was highly unusual from the start, but its end is even more unexpected
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Jam Master Jay’s business partner says he grabbed a gun and sought whoever had killed the rap star
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Jam Master Jay’s business partner has testified that when he saw the Run-DMC star had been shot in his recording studio, he grabbed a gun and went to look for whoever had done it
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Voting tech firm spotlights Murdochs in defamation suit
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NEW YORK • A voting tech company suing Fox News is arguing that Fox leaders Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch played a leading role in airing false claims that the technology helped “steal” the 2020 presidential election from former President Donald Trump. Smartmatic said the Murdochs, as the ultimate authorities at the network’s corporate parent, “directed…
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Jury: Filmmaker Paul Haggis liable for $7.5M in rape suit
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NEW YORK • A jury ordered Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis Thursday to pay at least $7.5 million to a woman who accused him of rape in one of several #MeToo-era cases that have put Hollywood notables’ behavior on trial this fall. The jury also plans to award additional punitive damages. Veering from sex to…
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U.S. urges world to tell Russia to stop its nuclear threats
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UNITED NATIONS • The United States urged other nations to tell Russia to stop making nuclear threats and end “the horror” of its war in Ukraine as all three countries’ top diplomats spoke — but didn’t quite meet — at a high-profile U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday. Held alongside the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering…
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‘Our world is in peril’: At UN, leaders push for solutions
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UNITED NATIONS • The world’s problems seized the spotlight Tuesday as the U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders opened with dire assessments of a planet beset by escalating crises and conflicts that an aging international order seems increasingly ill-equipped to tackle. After two years when many leaders weighed in by video because of…
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September 11 trials postponed again and again
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NEW YORK • Hours before dawn on March 1, 2003, the U.S. scored its most thrilling victory yet against the plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks — the capture of a disheveled Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, hauled away by intelligence agents from a hideout in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The global manhunt for al-Qaida’s No. 3 leader had taken…
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vana Trump, first wife of former president, dies at 73
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NEW YORK • Ivana Trump, a skier-turned-businesswoman who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, has died in New York City, her family announced Thursday. She was 73. “I am very saddened to inform all of those…
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U.N. chief urges 4-day Easter ‘pause’ in fighting in Ukraine
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UNITED NATIONS • U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed Tuesday for a halt in fighting in Ukraine during Orthodox Christians’ Holy Week, invoking Easter to plead for a four-day “pause” to allow humanitarian aid and evacuations. Noting that the Easter season is coming amid an intensifying Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine, the U.N. chief said the…
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Brooklyn subway suspect tipped off police to his location
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NEW YORK • The man accused of shooting 10 people on a Brooklyn subway train was arrested Wednesday and charged with a federal terrorism offense after the suspect himself called police to come get him, law enforcement officials said. Frank James, 62, was taken into custody about 30 hours after the carnage on a rush-hour…