Month: August 2022

PITTSBURGH – A rideshare driver was carjacked when he was called to pick up passengers in Pittsburgh’s Elliot neighborhood early Tuesday, police said. Officers responded to the 1200 block of Chartiers Avenue around 3 a.m. The rideshare driver told police that when he arrived to pick up the passengers, he got out of his car and was approached by four masked armed men. Police said they held a gun to his head and robbed him of his cash. Otherwise, the victim was not injured. Police said the suspects got into their white 2019 Ford Fusion and drove off. Around 10:45…

Washington – Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former campaign aide and White House chief strategist, has been found guilty of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena for documents and testimony issued by the House Select Committee Investigating the January 6 Attack on the Capitol. A jury of 12 Washington, DC residents convicted Bannon after less than three hours of deliberation. Bannon did not testify in his own defense and faces a maximum of one year in prison on each of the two charges. He will not be detained pending sentencing, which is scheduled…

The future looks bleak for One America News Network, which is being dumped by Verizon, the last major cable operator to run the raucous right-wing cable channel. OAN was unable to reach an agreement with Verizon, which will stop showing OAN on its Fios TV service starting July 31, as first reported by the Daily Beast. It’s another win for San Diego-based OAN, which in April stopped appearing on DirecTV, which accounted for nearly half of the 35 million households that had been able to get OAN on cable or satellite TV . .@CBSNews has confirmed @thedayybeast/@justinbaragonaVerizon is reportedly removing…

Editor’s Note: Here’s a look at immigration-related news in the US this week. Email questions, tips or comments to the VOA Immigration Team: ImmigrationUnit@voanews.com The new green card registration date could allow millions of people to adjust their status in the US House Democrats introduced a bill to update the deadline for some immigrants’ eligibility to apply for permanent residency. This is not the first time changes have been made to the green card registry, and the current cut-off date is 1972. No specific date is suggested. Instead, House Democrats propose that applicants would have to have lived in the…

The fire, which remained 0 percent contained Sunday morning, started Friday in the Sierra Nevada foothills near the small community of Midpines, about a 9-mile drive northeast of the county seat, the city ​​of Mariposa, according to the state fire marshal. said.The flames ripped through trees and sent thick smoke into the sky Friday, and at least one rural area burned near homes and parked vehicles, CNN affiliate video KFSN i KGO “(Authorities) came … and told us everybody had to go,” Wes Detamore, a resident of the Mariposa Pines area, he told KFSN Friday. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a…

Barclays has a stake in Copper, one of the biggest names in the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency sector, even as the industry continues to be rocked by a series of bankruptcies. Sky News has learned that the UK-based bank is among a number of new investors joining a funding round for Copper, which has former chancellor Lord Hammond among its advisers. City sources said Barclays was expected to invest a relatively modest sum in the millions of dollars as part of the round. Fundraising is expected to be completed in a few days. Copper provides custody, prime brokerage and settlement services…