NEW YORK — A co-conspirator in a sprawling kidnapping case against the Jewish Lev Tahor cult was sentenced to home imprisonment in a US federal court on Friday. The case has led to the group’s unraveling, seen most its leadership hauled away to prison and scattered its members across several countries. Aron Rosner was sentenced…
Shankar Mishra, the former Wells Fargo executive fired by the bank after he urinated on an elderly woman while intoxicated during an Air India flight in late November, was arrested in New Delhi, according to Indian media reports. Mishra, a resident of Mumbai, was sought by police for days. In an apparent attempt to evade…
The University of Idaho student who told cops she saw an intruder in her house the morning of the quadruple homicide there was “scared to death,” a lawyer for one of the victims’ families said Saturday. Dylan Mortensen, 21, reported seeing an unknown “figure clad in black clothing and a mask” walking past her, towards…
A man with a machete yelled and allegedly threatened people outside a Jewish religious school in Lakewood on Thursday evening said police, who are still looking for the suspect. No one was injured in the incident. The man, who remains unidentified, wore a ski mask and played music loudly from a portable speaker outside the…
MEXICO CITY — The sun wasn’t yet up in Culiacan when David Téllez and his family began making their way to the city’s airport for a return flight to Mexico City after their vacation. But not long after they set out they encountered the first crude roadblock, an abandoned vehicle obstructing their way. Téllez turned…
Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday. The breach “will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing”, Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity monitoring firm Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn. He called it…
International investors with $2.2 trillion in assets will ask commodity giant Glencore Plc to show how its development of thermal coal mines meets the goals of the Paris climate accord to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees. Glencore is one of the world’s largest producers and traders of the fossil fuel used in power generation and…
The US Defense Department and intelligence authorities are barring Israel Air Force (IAF) pilots with foreign passports from flying F-35 fighter jets, in fear of information security and technology leaks. This move by the US stems from an increasingly expanding focus on information security and safeguarding US interests. As a result, sources claim the IAF…
A Palestinian villager encountered Israeli cattle and fabricated a story about how Israel has been secretly training the cattle to spy on Palestinians, according to Palestinian Media Watch citing the official Palestinian Authority daily news outlet Al-Hayat Al-Jadida. “These are recruited and trained cattle, Palestinian villager Rushd Morrar reportedly told the daily. “On the neck…
Aviv Talmor, the Founder and CEO of the algo-trading company UTrade, has received a four-year prison sentence for defrauding investors of NIS 77 million ($22 million), along with other charges. Additionally, he was fined NIS 250,000 (about $78,900). The sentencing on Wednesday came after the District Court in Tel Aviv convicted him in September 2022.…