Mamdani sparks fierce backlash for World Cup stunt ‘palling around’ with Rikers Island convicts

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Controversial New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being torn to shreds for fraternizing with inmates at Rikers Island while they watched the World Cup semi-finals on Wednesday afternoon. The Associated Press filmed Mamdani walking into a recreation room where inmates in tan jumpsuits were watching the … Read more

Jury convicts the brother of Massachusetts attorney general in rideshare sex assaults

BOSTON — A jury Thursday convicted the brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell of sexually assaulting women while he posed as a rideshare driver. Jurors found Alvin Campbell, 45, guilty of 21 out of 22 counts for sex assaults from 2017 to 2019, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said. The jury was deadlocked … Read more

Jury convicts man accused of running secret Chinese spy outpost in New York City

NEW YORK — A man accused of running a secret Chinese spy outpost in New York City was convicted Wednesday of acting as an illegal foreign agent and destroying text messages from a Chinese government handler. Lu Jianwang, 64, was acquitted of a related conspiracy charge in a case that pitted U.S. concerns about China’s … Read more

Jury convicts New York man for 1993 killing following third trial in the case

A jury on Friday convicted a man in the 1993 killing of a woman near Buffalo, ending his third trial after a legal odyssey that has stretched on for decades. Brian Scott Lorenz, 56, was originally convicted in 1994, along with another man, James Pugh, of murdering Deborah Meindl. The 33-year-old nursing student and mother … Read more

U.S. court convicts Japanese mafia leader for conspiring to traffic nuclear material to Iran

A member of Japan’s yakuza crime group was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York court on Tuesday after being convicted of trafficking nuclear material as well as drugs and weapons. Takeshi Ebisawa, 61, has been jailed since April 2022 on the drug and weapons charges, along with his Thai co-defendant Somphop … Read more