Tuesday is the third night of Hanukkah — but Jewish inmates in Broward County jails will have to celebrate the holiday without a lit menorah. That’s because the Broward Sheriff’s Office doesn’t allow the menorah to be lit with a real flame inside county jails. Rabbi Shmaya Waks joined more than 20 other rabbis in…
DetailsUS auto safety regulators said on Tuesday they are investigating if Hertz rented unrepaired recalled vehicles to customers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a filing made public on Tuesday it was in receipt of information that indicates “Hertz rented vehicles to customers without having performed required recall repairs.” NHTSA said it had opened an “audit query to…
DetailsConsumer banking giant Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3.7 billion to settle a laundry list of charges that it harmed consumers by charging illegal fees and interest on auto loans and mortgages, as well as incorrectly applied overdraft fees against savings and checking accounts. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday ordered Wells to repay…
DetailsControversial Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead was holed up in a gaudy New Jersey McMansion Tuesday, one day after getting slammed with federal charges for allegedly scamming a member of his congregation. Whitehead, 44, briefly emerged from the sprawling brick two-story house to tell a Post reporter to scram — and yelled out “not guilty!” when…
DetailsNike executives would get “sloppy drunk” and prey on female subordinates while the company ignored their complaints, according to an unsealed gender discrimination lawsuit against the sneaker giant. The female underlings alleged in the complaint that Nike’s Oregon headquarters was a “boys club” in which male executives subjected them to sexual advances, suggestive comments about…
DetailsInvestigators probing the gruesome murders of four Idaho students have received 10,000 tips and leads connected to the mysterious case as Moscow’s police chief vowed the investigation would not slow down over the holidays. Moscow police announced the astonishing 10,000 tip mark in a Monday update as the suspect or suspects in the slayings of…
DetailsFinancial police in Kazakhstan have arrested a well-known investigative journalist over his alleged ties to organized crime groups. Supporters of Mikhail Kozachkov say the detention is a reprisal for his work. Alibek Abdilov, a spokesman for the Financial Monitoring Agency, claimed in a statement on December 18 that Kozachkov was enlisted by the head of…
DetailsMason Disick, eldest son of American media personalities Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick, celebrated his bar mitzvah on Saturday alongside his family. Guests at Disick’s party included grandmother Kris Jenner, aunts Kim and Khloé Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, and Kylie Jenner, alongside several of his cousins. Noticeably absent were Travis Barker, Kourtney Kardashian’s partner, and Kim’s…
DetailsWhen Brian Locke went into business with a clique of Australia’s richest businessmen, the plucky gold hunter believed a lifelong dream was finally within reach. For more than a decade, he had been searching for the super giant: a legendary deposit of gold and precious minerals – worth billions – believed to be entombed beneath…
DetailsThrough weekly protests outside Israel’s parliament, Nehama Teena has demanded an investigation into a prominent rabbi she accuses of rape and sought to break the code of silence surrounding sexual assault in the Orthodox world. “I’m not asking that they take my word for it, only that they listen to me and stop preventing victims…
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