Day: January 4, 2025

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced on Jan. 10 in the criminal case in which he was convicted on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, but is unlikely to face jail time or other penalties, a judge said on Friday. Justice Juan Merchan’s ruling means Trump will be required to appear at a court hearing just 10 days before his Jan. 20

Drones attacked Russia’s largest commercial seaport, Ust-Luga, in Leningrad Oblast overnight on Jan. 4, the independent news channel Astra reported. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has been regularly targeting facilities in Russia that fuel its war efforts. Most of the drones that attacked Leningrad Oblast, located over 1,500 ki…

LeBron James set yet another record on Friday as he surpassed the legendary Michael Jordan’s mark for the most 30-point games in NBA history, breaking the milestone in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 119-102 victory over the Atlanta Hawks.

The wintry wallop comes as a blast of Arctic air will invade much of the Midwest, Great Lakes and northern United States for roughly a week.

A 116-year-old Japanese woman who held the Guinness World Record for oldest living woman has died. Tomiko Itooka, who lived in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in central Japan, died from natural causes on Dec. 29, according to Guinness World Records. The supercentenarian became the oldest living woman in August, following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, an American citizen living in Spain. Itooka was born in 1908 in Osaka…

Bono, Denzel Washington, and Michael J. Fox are among the 19 people who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on Saturday.