The man convicted of murder for shooting Ahmaud Arbery withdrew his guilty plea on a federal hate crime charge Friday, electing to stand trial for a second time in the 2020 killing of a Black man that became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice. Travis McMichael reversed …

New Yorkers placed a record-breaking $1.6 billion worth of online sports bets in January, shattering a previous U.S. all-time tally set by Arizona for the highest opening sports betting handle. Figures released Friday show that New York also surpassed the one-month record set last year by neighboring New Jersey. The …

Spotify said Sunday that it will add an advisory to podcasts that discuss COVID-19. The announcement comes after artists Neil Young and Joni Mitchell decided to leave the streaming service due to COVID-19 misinformation on the platform. “Based on the feedback over the last several weeks, it’s become clear to …

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo issued a dire warning for Congress on semiconductor chips Tuesday, as the Commerce Department released results from its survey on the semiconductor supply chain that show chips are in short supply as demand booms. “We aren’t even close to being out of the woods as it …

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with a bid by Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas to dismantle a provision of federal campaign finance law that caps the amount of money a candidate can be repaid for personal loans made to their campaign. The restriction at issue in …

The teenager who admitted to the stabbing death of a New York City college student was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years to life in prison. Rashaun Weaver had pleaded guilty in December to murder and robbery in the killing of Tessa Majors in 2019. Weaver, 16 now and 14 at …

President Biden has told key senators he’s made his selections for the three spots on the Federal Reserve Board — Sarah Bloom Raskin as vice chair for supervision, the Fed’s top regulator of the banking system; and Lisa Cook and Philip Jefferson as Fed governors, according to a source familiar …

The armorer for the film “Rust” has sued the man who supplied the ammunition and guns for the movie, accusing him and his company of providing a combination of dummy and live rounds. Alec Baldwin fatally shot the film’s cinematographer as it was being made. Lawyers representing Hannah Gutierrez Reed …

Colts running back Jonathan Taylor, Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans and Rams wideout Cooper Kupp have not only been money on the football field this year, they’ve made lots of money for people who bet on them. Los Angeles Angels pitcher/slugger Shohei Ohtani not only regularly went deep on the diamond, …

New York — Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as “The White Album” and “The Year of Magical Thinking” made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died. She was 87. Didion’s publisher, Penguin Random House, announced the …