Two associates of Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty on charges they used straw donors to make illegal campaign contributions to politicians and committees to advance their business interests.

Two businessmen pleaded not guilty Thursday to conspiring with associates of Rudy Giuliani to make illegal campaign contributions, as a prosecutor said evidence includes data from over 50 bank accounts and information gathered through 10 search warrants. David Correia and Andrey Kukushkin are among four men charged with using straw donors to make illegal contributions to politicians they thought could...

Two Soviet-born business partners from Florida, who made hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to Republican campaign committees and helped Rudy Giuliani meet a key Ukrainian prosecutor, were arrested Wednesday on charges tied to campaign finance violations. Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas were arrested on a four-count indictment that includes charges of conspiracy, making false statements to the...

A newlywed said he frantically tried but failed to save his wife as she struggled to cross a raging river near a bus in the Alaska wilderness made famous by the movie “Into the Wild.” Piotr Markielau told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in an email Tuesday that he and 24-year-old Veranika Nikonova had spent two nights at the bus, which...

A newlywed woman from Belarus who was swept away by a river in Alaska was trying to reach an abandoned bus made famous by the book and film “Into the Wild.” Veramika Maikamava, 24, and her husband, Piotr Markielau, also 24, on Thursday were heading for the bus where hiker Christopher McCandless met his death in 1992, The Fairbanks Daily...

An independent Ukrainian Orthodox church was created at a signing ceremony in Turkey on Saturday, formalizing a split with the Russian church it had been tied to since 1686. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, signed the “Tomos” in Istanbul in front of clerics and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, forming the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. It forces Ukrainian clerics...

UPDATE: Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is alive. The Ukrainian Security Service told a news conference on Wednesday the agency faked Babchenko’s death to catch those who were trying to kill him. Read the story here.

The men’s aerials qualifying saw a very high level of jumps. In the first round, the bubble score was 124.34. American Jonathon Lillis rose the occasion. He came into the Olympics ranked 10th in the world. Lillis chose to execute a quadruple twisting triple back flip, a popular choice in the first round. He did it perfectly. He had huge...

Hanna Oeberg did all she could. She was perfect in her shooting bouts, and she skied just as fast. And that was more than enough for the Swede to capture her first Olympic gold medal. Oeberg finished the women’s 15km individual Thursday in 41 minutes, 7.2 seconds to score an upset win in the event at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre...

Update: The Olympic women’s individual biathlon has been postponed due to strong winds hitting the Alpensia Biathlon Center. Forecasts are predicting gusts of more than 15 mph Wednesday night in Pyeongchang, making it difficult for competitors to shoot their rifles. The event has been moved to Thursday, starting ahead of the men’s individual biathlon.

New York’s most notorious living Russian mobster just wants to go back to the motherland.

Oleksandr Abramenko gave Ukraine its third-ever gold medal at the Winter Olympics, edging China’s Jia Zongyang in men’s aerials on Sunday night....
The 29-year-old Abramenko posted a score of 128.51 in his last jump to give his country its first medal in Pyeongchang. He also became the first Ukrainian man to win a medal of any variety in the Winter Games....
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The king is not dead, he’s just testing skis and being the best cheerleader he can be for his wife.

Hanna Huskova survived the tricky wind at Phoenix Snow Park to give Belarus a second straight Olympic gold medal in women’s aerials. The 25-year-old Huskova narrowly edged Zhang Xin in tricky conditions that wreaked havoc with much of the 12-woman field. Huskova nailed her final jump, a double-twisting back layout, and posted a score of 96.14, just ahead of Zhang’s...

Maggie Voisin was determined. She was going to walk in the opening ceremony. So, with her freshly broken ankle in a freshly fitted walking boot, she did — choking back the emotion from a day that could only be labeled as devastating. Hours earlier, in a practice on the slopestyle course, the 15-year-old freeskier bailed out of a rail trick,...

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His kindergarten teacher recalls Kazuo Ishiguro as a quiet boy who liked to read books. The British writer left Japan at a young age, but his birthplace became part of his artistic approach, which was recognized this week with the Nobel Prize in literature. “It’s like a dream come true,” his former teacher, 91-year-old Teruko Tanaka, told Kyodo News service...

British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. He is known for novels like “The Remains of the Day,” which won the 1989 Man Booker Prize, and “Never Let Me Go,” which was made into a feature film in 2010. Born in Japan, Ishiguro now lives in Britain and writes in English. The Swedish Academy...