TRENTON (AP) — Should underage gambling no longer be a crime? New Jersey lawmakers are considering changing the law to make gambling by people under the age of 21 no longer punishable under criminal law, making it subject to a fine. It also would impose fines on anyone helping an underage person gamble in New…
In 1957, the Jack Arnold B-movie “The Incredible Shrinking Man” hit theaters. This low-budget film was based on Richard Matheson’s 1956 book, “The Shrinking Man.” The story has to do with a man who, while on vacation with his wife, walks through a mysterious mist and starts to shrink, gradually shrinking to microscopic size. Advertisement…
Trump’s first post-election presser gave us some more wild exaggerations of his election victory. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Donald Trump has a habit of grossly exaggerating his popular support, particularly his performance in elections. This had famously pernicious effects in 2020: He refused to accept defeat, claiming not just that he won but that he…
Kansas’s Republican delegates certified the 2024 election results, the final step in the state before the votes are certified by the United States Congress on Jan. 6. The six Republican presidential electors signed more than 20 copies certifying their votes for President Donald Trump. They are as follows: Kansas Republican Party Chair Mike Brown. Kristi…
NEW YORK — A Manhattan resident has pleaded guilty to helping establish a secret police station in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government. Chen Jinping, 60, entered the guilty plea on a single count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday. Matthew…
STATE DEPARTMENT — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a “substantive” face-to-face meeting Wednesday morning with Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump as his nominee for the next U.S. secretary of state. The meeting comes as Trump’s team prepares for the transition process. “It was a…
A new analyst report that looks at downloads and user data could show the winners and losers and what’s ahead for the streaming sector. The Media and Internet Report: JPMorgan analysts led by David Karnovsky released a report on streaming downloads and user data using data from Sensor Tower, the iOS App Store and Google…
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday by a quarter-point — its third cut this year — but also signaled that it expects to reduce rates more slowly next year than it previously envisioned, largely because of still-elevated inflation. The Fed’s 19 policymakers projected that they would cut their benchmark rate…
President-elect Donald Trump is vowing an all-out assault on President Joe Biden’s efforts to make electric vehicles the new king of the American road. But an eleventh-hour decision by Biden will make it harder for Trump to kill those EV dreams. A waiver that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted Wednesday morning will allow California…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. cybersecurity watchdog CISA is telling senior American government officials and politicians to immediately switch to end-to-end encrypted messaging following intrusions at major American telecoms blamed on Chinese hackers. In written guidance released on Wednesday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said “individuals who are in senior government or senior political positions”…