HSBC exiting US retail banking to focus on wealth management
NEW YORK — British banking giant HSBC says it is closing its U.S. retail banking business in order to refocus its efforts on wealth...
NY bill would give sexual abuse survivors new chance to sue
ALBANY, N.Y. — People sexually abused as adults would have a chance to sue the perpetrators even if the usual deadline to bring a...
Met Opera deal allow solo singer fees cut by up to 12.7%
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera would be able to cut the fees of its highest-paid individual singers by 12.7% under a pending four-year...
9 NYC jail workers charged in bribery-contraband scam
NEW YORK — Nine current and former New York City Department of Correction workers were arrested Wednesday on charges alleging they took cash bribes...
Woman in racist Central Park confrontation sues over firing
NEW YORK — The white woman who was widely condemned and fired after a videotaped dispute with a Black birdwatcher in Central Park filed...
Attorney Dershowitz sues Netflix for $80M over Epstein show
MIAMI — Attorney and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is suing Netflix for $80 million over his portrayal in the streaming service's “Filthy Rich”...
A year later, Krasinski’s ‘Quiet Place’ ready to make noise
NEW YORK — John Krasinski, whose “A Quiet Place Part II” is one of the biggest studio releases to open exclusively in theaters this...
Lawyer: US got ex-Ukranian officials’ data in Giuliani probe
NEW YORK — U.S. prosecutors in 2019 sought the electronic messages of two ex-Ukrainian government officials and a Ukrainian businessman as part of their...
Two BOP workers admit crimes on morning of Epstein’s death
NEW YORK — Two Bureau of Prisons guards admitted falsifying records Tuesday after financier Jeffrey Epstein’s jail death in a deferred prosecution deal that...
Ghislaine Maxwell lawyers ask judge to toss new indictment
NEW YORK — Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell have urged a judge to toss out a rewritten indictment against her, saying prosecutors...
