DETROIT (FOX 2) – Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has reached an agreement with federal prosecutors regarding more than $823,000 in remaining restitution to the city, according to court filings. Big picture view: An amended judgment ordered Kilpatrick to pay about $1.7 million in restitution, and the federal government has been pursuing collection through garnishment actions,…
President Yamandu Orsi is the first Latin American leader to visit China since the US military abducted Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. Published On 3 Feb 20263 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share China and Uruguay have moved to deepen their strategic partnership despite pressure from United States President Donald Trump to…
CHAMPAIGN – A chapter of College Republicans at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is facing backlash after a social media post that appeared to reference the killing of a Minneapolis protester. What we know: The University of Illinois said Monday the student organization has been placed under a Title VI review. The investigation stems from…
Gasgoo Munich- Covestro officially announced on January 30 that it has successfully completed an expansion of its toluene diisocyanate (TDI) production facilities at its Shanghai integrated site. The upgrade lifts the site’s annual TDI capacity to 370,000 tonnes from 310,000 tonnes — a jump of nearly 20%. Image source: Covestro The move is aimed at…
At least 16 people have now been found dead outdoors in New York City amid a bitter run of freezing temperatures with the mercury at or below freezing for the 11th day in a row, Mayor Mamdani said Monday. Of those, preliminary findings show that in 13 of those deaths, hypothermia played a role, and three…
Islamabad, Pakistan – When meeting United States President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in September, Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, opened a briefcase with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif standing next to him. Inside were a set of glistening minerals. Their display was part of Pakistan’s latest offer to the Trump administration: The…
Tokyo proclaims Pacific Ocean mission world’s first attempt to tap rare earths at such a depth. Published On 2 Feb 20262 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Japan has announced the discovery of rare earth elements at record sea depths. The government said on Monday that a deep-sea test mission…
Rafael Hui Si-yan, a former Hong Kong chief secretary who was jailed for pocketing nearly HK$20 million from a prominent land developer, has died at the age of 77. “Mr Rafael Hui passed away at [Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital] peacefully on Sunday after a brave fight with an acute illness,” a source told the…
Adidas has expressed concern over a woman’s complaint about a staff member and other customers opening the curtain of a fitting room at a Hong Kong branch on two occasions while she was inside, saying it would review its facilities and store operations. The German sportswear giant issued a response on Sunday, four days after…
Hong Kong’s spending should not grow faster than its income, even though the city’s finances are improving, the financial secretary has said, added that the market expects the government to invest more to boost the economy. But Paul Chan Mo-po on Sunday also painted a rosy picture for the city’s retail sector, revealing that sales…