Thousands of revelers who dressed as Santa Claus and other famous characters, participate in the annual SantaCon pub crawl on Saturday, December 13, 2025, in New York City, United States. Selcuk Acar | Anadolu | Getty Images The president of SantaCon was arrested on Wednesday on a federal criminal indictment accusing him of using the…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell participates in a board meeting at the Federal Reserve on March 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images The Federal Reserve‘s Board of Governors urged a judge to reject prosecutors’ request that he reconsider his recent decision to block subpoenas issued in a criminal investigation of Chair…
Chicago attorney Rachel Cohen owes more than $8,000 in federal income taxes — but has intentionally left that balance unpaid. “I’m not paying my federal income tax this year,” Cohen said in a widely viewed TikTok video from March 2 about her decision. The 31-year-old community organizer filed her federal tax return, which shows a…
Deutsche Bank said Thursday it saw record profits during the fourth quarter of 2025, as the lender’s earnings update came amid a new investigation by German authorities into alleged money laundering. The German lender’s fourth-quarter results statement showed net profit attributable to shareholders came in at 1.3 billion euros ($1.56 billion) in the last quarter…
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said his business relationship with President Donald Trump‘s family has been “misconstrued” in the wake of his pardon. “There’s no business relationships whatsoever,” Zhao told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Thursday in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The former Binance CEO served four months in…
New York Attorney General Letitia James is set to plead not guilty Friday morning in federal court in Virginia to a fraud case tied to mortgage records she signed in 2020. James is a longtime antagonist of President Donald Trump, who publicly urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to target her weeks before she was indicted….
President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who had previously pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering while heading the cryptocurrency exchange, the White House said Thursday. The pardon of Zhao, widely known as CZ, came two months after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump family’s own crypto venture, which has generated…
George Santos, who was expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives, arrives for the sentencing in his criminal corruption charges at Central Islip Federal Courthouse in Central Islip, New York, U.S., April 25, 2025. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters President Donald Trump on Friday evening said he has commuted the prison sentence of George Santos, releasing…
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks to reporters after speaking in a panel hosted by the National Council of Resistance of Iran – U.S. Representative Office (NCRI-US) at the Willard InterContinental Hotel on Aug. 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images John Bolton, a former national advisor to President Donald Trump,…
The Department of Justice has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin held by a man who oversaw a massive “pig butchering” fraud operation based in Cambodia, prosecutors said Tuesday. The seizure is the largest forfeiture action by the DOJ in history. An indictment charging the alleged pig butcher, Chen Zhi, was unsealed Tuesday in…
