WASHINGTON — Wide-ranging bipartisan legislation unveiled Tuesday would regulate cryptocurrencies and other digital assets following a series of high-profile busts and failures. It’s unclear, though, whether the bill proposed by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) can clear Congress, especially at a time of heightened...
Continue reading...June 7, 2022
‘We Build the Wall’ fraud case ends in mistrial, with jury deadlocked
NEW YORK — The trial of a Colorado businessman on charges that he ripped off thousands of donors who contributed $25 million to a campaign to build a wall along the southern U.S. border ended Tuesday in a mistrial after jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict...
Continue reading...‘We will question every assumption’: TCH head apologizes to displaced residents after Swansea ceiling collapse
The CEO of Toronto Community Housing is apologizing to residents who were displaced from their city-run housing complex after a ceiling there collapsed nearly two weeks ago. “We regret the incident on May 27 and at the town hall meeting tonight I will apologize to the...
Continue reading...The Senate’s gun reform bill is already looking like a dud
The bipartisan gun reforms being discussed in the Senate are bound to be fruitless. After a gunman slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, we heard the all-too-common refrain from lawmakers that “this time is different” — a tacit acknowledgment...
Continue reading...Toronto police charge boy, 13, after ‘threatening’ messages left at Scarborough school
Toronto police say a 13-year-old boy is facing two charges after he allegedly called a Scarborough school and left two “threatening voice mail messages” last week. On Monday just after 9:30 a.m., police said, officers attended a school located in the area of Kingston and Galloway...
Continue reading...New York judge lets sexual assault civil lawsuit go on against actor Kevin Spacey
NEW YORK — A sex assault civil lawsuit against actor Kevin Spacey can proceed in federal court in New York City, a federal judge ruled Monday. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said in a written ruling that the allegations that actor Anthony Rapp brought against Spacey established an...
Continue reading...Scarborough tennis coach charged in sex assault probe involving girl
A longtime Scarborough tennis coach has been charged in an ongoing sexual assault investigation. Police said “sometime” during the summer of 2020, a man employed at Tam Heather Tennis Club on Military Trail, in the Morningside Avenue and Highway 401 area, sexually assaulted a girl he...
Continue reading...Scarborough tennis coach charged in sex assault probe involving girl, police believe there may be more victims
A longtime Scarborough tennis coach has been charged in an ongoing sexual assault investigation. Police said “sometime” during the summer of 2020, a man employed at Tam Heather Tennis Club on Military Trail, in the Morningside Avenue and Highway 401 area, sexually assaulted a girl he...
Continue reading...Indicted Proud Boys members allegedly sent a slew of damning texts
Five members of the Proud Boys extremist group were charged with seditious conspiracy on Monday. The Justice Department alleges the men aided last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol in order to stop certification of the 2020 election results. Reported texts among the indicted members make...
Continue reading...Weather causing ‘significant delays’ for GO riders on Lakeshore East
GO Transit customers on the Lakeshore East line are being told to expect significant delays due to weather-related conditions on the tracks. GO Transit said Tuesday evening that it is experiencing problems at Guildwood and Pickering GO stations due to possible flooding. “Trains will not be...
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