• Konstantin Koltsov, former NHL player and boyfriend of tennis star Sabalenka, dead at 42

    Konstantin Koltsov, the Belarusian former pro ice hockey player and boyfriend of tennis player Aryna Sabalenka, has died at the age of 42, Russian club Salavat Yulaev said in a statement on Tuesday. Forward Koltsov played for the Belarus national team in the 2002 and 2010 Olympics and spent parts of three seasons with the National Hockey League’s Pittsburgh Penguins from 2002 and 2006. “It is with deep sorrow that we inform you that the coach of Salavat Yulaev, Konstantin Koltsov, has passed...

  • Michigan school shooter’s father threatened to destroy the prosecutor in case against him, sources confirm

    The convicted father of the Oxford High School shooter said in jailhouse phone calls that he wanted to ruin the prosecutor in the case against him and that she would be going to hell soon, sources confirmed. James Crumbley made the comments to his sister while his case was pending, the sources close to the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed. The new details were first reported Monday by the Detroit Free Press. A Michigan jury last week found Crumbley guilty on four counts of...

  • Bank of Japan hikes rates for the first time in 17 years, abolishes yield curve control

    Japan’s central bank raised interest rates on Tuesday for the first time since 2007, ending the world’s last negative rates regime on early signs of robust wage gains this year. The BOJ raised its short-term interest rates to around 0% to 0.1% from -0.1%, according to its statement at the end of its two-day March policy meeting. Japan’s negative rates regime had been in place since 2016. The BOJ also announced the abolition of its radical yield curve control policy for 10-year Japanese...

  • RBG Award gala to honor likes of Musk, Murdoch canceled after late justice’s family objects

    A Washington, D.C., spring gala to honor Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken, Martha Stewart and Sylvester Stallone has been canceled, organizers said Monday. The invitation-only celebration at the Library of Congress on April 13 was being organized to bestow Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award honors on the tech, media, finance, food and film luminaries. On Monday, the chairman of the Opperman Foundation, which chooses honorees and organizes the event independent of the late...

  • Medication abortions rose in year after Dobbs decision, report finds

    Medication abortions rose in the year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a report published Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports access to abortion. In 2023, the first full calendar year since the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, there were about 642,700 medication abortions, accounting for about 63% of all abortions in the country, up from 492,210 medication abortions, or 53%, in 2020, according to the report. “This increase is indicative of...

  • Judge rules Reddit and YouTube must face lawsuits claiming they enabled Buffalo grocery mass shooter

    Reddit and Google’s YouTube were ordered by a New York state judge to face lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for helping enable the avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in 2022 at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store. Justice Paula Feroleto of the Erie County Supreme Court said 25 plaintiffs could try to prove that the social media platforms were designed to addict and radicalize users and gave Payton Gendron knowledge of the equipment and training needed for his racially...

  • Chicago begins evicting migrants from shelters as residents decry a 'lack of respect'

    CHICAGO — Chicago has begun evicting some migrants from its shelters, a controversial policy that had been delayed for months but appeared haphazard, a migrant told NBC News on Monday. Migrants who have been evicted, as well as those who face a rapidly approaching deadline, said there has been widespread confusion about the process and frustration with being forced to leave while they still lack the resources to find their own places to stay. In the first two days of enforcement, fewer than 10...

  • Pro-Trump Michigan attorney arrested after hearing in D.C. over leak of Dominion documents

    An attorney facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a hearing in a separate case in federal court in Washington, D.C. Stefanie Lambert was arrested by U.S. marshals after a hearing over possible sanctions against her for disseminating confidential emails from Dominion Voting Systems, the target of conspiracy theories over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. Lambert obtained the Dominion emails by...

  • Trump says Jews who vote for Democrats 'hate' Israel and 'their religion'

    Former President Donald Trump invoked a dual loyalty trope Monday by claiming Jews who vote for Democrats hate Israel. "Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion," Trump said in an interview with Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump administration official, on Gorka's web show. "They hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves, because Israel will be destroyed," Trump continued, going on to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions. The remarks echoed a trope...

  • CDC issues alert over rising measles cases in the U.S.

    The country’s health agency warned doctors Monday about an increase in measles cases that in a little more than three months has equaled all of the U.S. cases last year. There had been 58 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year as of Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, compared to 58 in all of 2023. In the cases this year, 93% were linked to international travel, the agency said. Most of the cases involved children a year old or older who haven’t yet gotten...

  • WRPD: Man shot in leg while walking on Oak Grove Road

    WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A man is in the hospital after police say he was shot in the leg while walking Monday night on Oak Grove Road. It happened around 7:30, according to a Warner Robins Police Department news release. Police say the man told responding officers he’d been walking when he saw three juveniles shooting what he thought

  • Judge in hush money case denies Trump's bid to prevent Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels from testifying

    A New York judge on Monday denied Donald Trump's bid to keep his former lawyer Michael Cohen and adult film star Stormy Daniels from testifying in the former president's criminal trial related to a 2016 hush money payment. State Judge Juan Merchan gave Cohen and Daniels the green light to take the stand but placed some restrictions on Daniels' testimony, specifically that she can’t testify about a lie detector test she took in 2018 indicating she’d been truthful about her comments about Trump....