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Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of cryptocurrency giant FTX, defrauded investors by funneling money into his private hedge fund, according to a filing on Tuesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  The SEC charges were filed in the Southern District of New York one day after Bankman-Fried, the once-celebrated …

Parts of interstates in South Dakota were predicted to be closed Tuesday and law enforcement officials in the Plains urged drivers to rethink travel plans as a large winter storm has coated roads with snow and ice. By late Monday, winter weather advisories affected more than 13 million people, from …

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto giant FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas after American authorities filed criminal charges against him, the country’s attorney general said Monday. A statement from Attorney General Ryan Pinder did not say what the charges were but said that American authorities were …

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas men’s basketball coach Chris Beard was arrested early Monday on a felony family violence charge, according to Travis County Jail records. The county Sheriff’s Office said the 49-year-old Beard was arrested by Austin police and booked at 4:18 a.m. on a charge of assault on a …

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for its newsletters, and follow on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Timothy York knows what works to treat his decadeslong opioid addiction: Suboxone, a medication that effectively quiets cravings.  Since …

The operator of the Keystone Pipeline System, which carries a form of crude oil from Canada to multiple states for refining, said over the weekend that its largest-yet breach has been contained for now. The pipeline failure three miles east of Washington, Kansas, on Wednesday caused an estimated 14,000 barrels …

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Heavy snow fell in the Sierra Nevada as a winter storm packing powerful winds sent ski lift chairs swinging and closed mountain highways while downpours at lower elevations triggered flood watches Sunday across large swaths of California into Nevada. More than 250 miles of the …

Officials downgraded the alert level for Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano from a warning to a watch on Saturday as they predict that the eruption of the world’s largest active volcano could soon end. “High eruption rates will not resume based on past eruptive behavior and current behavior suggests that the …

My wife and I are fortunate enough to travel around the country in our 21-foot teardrop trailer. Midway through 2021, we decided to retire early (I was 62, and she was 59) and fulfill our dream of living a nomadic and unencumbered life. We sold our home in Olympia, Washington, …

Four college students have died and three others were injured after the SUV they were in crashed early Saturday in the Maine town of Castine, authorities said. Jerry Paul, president of the Maine Maritime Academy, where all seven attended, said in a statement that he’s devastated. The school is offering …