UPS announced a seismic shift in the relationship with its largest customer, Amazon, prompting a sharp stock price drop Thursday morning. The Georgia-based logistics company will cut the volume it moves for the retailer by more than 50% by the second half 2026, a move company leaders say reflects UPS’ new strategy, or as CFO Brian Dykes put it,…
A recent report claims that as many as 40 percent of the non-citizens in Maine, including illegal immigrants and individuals with “legal alien status,” may have voted or had ballots cast in their name in U.S. elections since 2016. The Maine Wire reported that the recent report is based on MaineCare records and voter information…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened tariffs of up to 100% on computer chips imported from Taiwan, which produces about 90% of the world’s most advanced chips. Speaking to the annual Congressional Institute retreat of Republican lawmakers, which was held…
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) said on Friday the country’s non-oil exports reached $5.4 billion in 2024. This figure was $939 million or 20.79 percent higher than the $4.5 billion recorded in 2023. The Executive Director of NEPC, Nonye Ayeni, disclosed this when she briefed the media on the sector’s performance in Abuja. She…
A new report claims that police officials are conducting a manhunt for a 32-year-old suspected of purchasing the firearms used to kill a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a traffic stop in Vermont on January 20. The Times Union reported that law enforcement agencies are searching for 32-year-old Michelle J. Zajko in connection with the…
An illegal immigrant was recently indicted by a grand jury over allegations that the suspect killed a West Virginia woman and set her body on fire. According to The Spirit of Jefferson, 46-year-old David Antonio Calderon, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was indicted for allegedly murdering 32-year-old Samantha Dailey in May of 2024. The…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. A Russian drone attack that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called “a horrible tragedy” struck a residential building in the Ukrainian regional capital Sumy, officials said, killing at least six and injuring nine others, including a child. According to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office, those…
An Atlanta family who say they were traumatized by armed FBI agents in an accidental predawn raid on their house have persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether their lawsuit against the federal government can proceed. Trina Martin, her then-partner Toi Cliatt and her son Gabe Watson allege they were startled awake just before 5 a.m. on Oct. 18, 2017, when a six-agent SWAT team…
The Los Angeles County medical examiner has unveiled additional details about the death of “All My Children” actor Esta TerBlanche, including her cause of death. TerBlanche, a South African actor who also appeared in TV series “Spin City” and “Egoli: Place of Gold,” died of an intracranial hemorrhage or brain bleed in July, the coroner confirmed Wednesday…
Marianne Faithfull, the singer, actress, steely-eyed “It” girl of Swinging ‘60s London and subject of numerous Rolling Stones songs including “Wild Horses” and “Sister Morphine,” opened her 1994 autobiography with a disclaimer: “Never apologize, never explain — didn’t we always say that? Well, I haven’t and I don’t.” Faithfull, who once described herself as “the…
