Jeff Metcalf said he felt pity for Karmelo Anthony after the 19-year-old was sentenced to 35 years for fatally stabbing his son Austin, choosing forgiveness for his own peace while vowing to fight parole and rejecting claims the killing was racially motivated.
After talks in Beijing, China released remarks in which Xi Jinping warns of confrontation over Taiwan—“the most important issue in China-US relations”—while the leaders also canvassed the Middle East, Ukraine and North Korea amid a condensed summit agenda light on climate and human rights.
In a newly released House Oversight transcript, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says he met Jeffrey Epstein only three times—2005 coffee, a 2011 scaffolding visit, and 2012 lunch on his island—and denies any ongoing personal or professional tie, amid scrutiny over post-2008 correspondence and his past podcast account.
Donald Trump said stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is “the only thing that matters” as US midterms face economic fallout from the conflict; inflation hit 3.8% in April with energy and gas prices at four-year highs.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is crisscrossing the country as he lays the groundwork for an increasingly likely 2028 presidential campaign, refining his pitch and working to move past his bruising 2024 defeat by President Trump.
Beijing flipped the switch on a cross-border payment system for the digital yuan, accelerating a long-running plan to push the RMB into more of the global plumbing.
A senior central-bank official telegraphed that the long-awaited digital-currency rulebook is finally close, with a public draft expected next month.
A New York City Council member is moving to ban the NYPD from ever strapping weapons onto its four-legged robotic dogs, citing safety risks and chilling civil-liberties precedents.
A US special-forces operator stands accused of cashing in on a prediction market by trading on classified details about a mission to capture former Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro.
A neighborhood bodega in the Bronx was robbed at gunpoint overnight, with two masked suspects emptying the register before vanishing into the surrounding streets.
More than two decades after hip-hop pioneer Jam Master Jay was gunned down in his Queens studio, one of the men charged in the killing has formally entered a guilty plea.
Republican leaders missed another procedural window to push through a renewal of the federal foreign-surveillance law, with hardliners demanding warrant requirements and other privacy guardrails.
A signature snag has knocked Republican governor hopeful Bruce Blakeman out of New York's public matching-funds pool, and his party is now pushing legislation that would give candidates a short window to fix paperwork errors.
A South Korean court sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to seven years on multiple charges, capping one of the most dramatic political falls in the country's modern history.
