Adam Iza grew up a world away from the Bel-Air mansion he inhabited before his arrest in September. As his lawyer Josef Sadat tells it, Iza was poor during his childhood in Iraq, borrowing a computer from his uncle before coming to the U.S. as a teenager and building a lucrative cryptocurrency trading platform. But as Iza grew rich, Sadat said, he attracted “the worst type of blood-sucking characters that Southern California has to offer.” According to federal prosecutors, that includes multiple Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, who were allegedly hired to carry out Iza’s criminal bidding. At least six deputies have been relieved of duty in connection with the case, according to court filings and Sheriff’s Department sources — three more than previously reported. The sources requested anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.

Sources previously told NBC News that undocumented Chinese nationals of military age will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration.

Fast-forward four years and there is now abundant evidence that being infected with SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – can affect brain health in many ways. In addition to brain fog, COVID-19 can lead to an array of problems, including headaches, seizure disorders, strokes, sleep problems, and tingling and paralysis of the nerves, as well as several mental health disorders. A large and growing body of evidence amassed throughout the pandemic details the many ways that COVID-19 leaves an indelible mark on the brain. But the specific pathways by which the virus does so are still being elucidated, and curative treatments are nonexistent.

Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist said.

Muslim leaders backed Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon. His choices are staunch supporters of their foe.

Flight 2494 was preparing for departure to Indianapolis when "a bullet apparently struck the right side of the aircraft under the flight deck", a Southwest spokesperson told the BBC's US partner, CBS News.

A crucial adaptation that allowed this growth was a unique respiratory system, supported by air sacs, which lightened their skeletal structures.

OSAKA -- Every autumn, dead mantises can be seen lying on the asphalt of roads. A type of parasitic worm may be leading the creatures to their deaths

Roughly 10ft-long specimen discovered on Encinitas beach shortly after August discovery of the ‘doomsday fish’

South Africa’s government says it won’t help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of an official strategy against illegal mining. The miners in the mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the entrances used to transport their supplies underground. It is part of the police’s Vala Umgodi, or Close the Hole, operation, which includes cutting off miners’ supplies to force them to return to the surface and be arrested. Police had earlier indicated that information received from those who recently helped bring three miners to the surface indicated that up to 4,000 miners may be underground.

Pakistani authorities have declared a health emergency in the country's east due to smog. Smog has choked Punjab for weeks, sickening nearly 2 million people and shrouding vast swathes of the province in a toxic haze.

A new study seems to confirm something obvious — that conservative Christian women really are having terrible sex.

The findings suggest that biochemical and physical effects of exercise could help heal nerves.

Facing quick pushback, Colorado leader clarifies that science should remain at center of public health

A little over fifty years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote a two-part story for Rolling Stone magazine, which was published a year later as a book. They were both called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream and the story became a countercultural classic.

The search for his body went on for more than 50 days, with divers on several occasions exploring the lake.

Four people charged with insurance fraud and conspiracy after analysis of videos and discovery of bear costume

Many of the worst developments coming down the pipeline in crypto and defense tech have been building for years now, thanks in part to the Biden administration. Despite its incessant whining, our technology sector has had it easy under Joe Biden and will have it even easier under Donald Trump. The president-elect is backed by a swath of Silicon Valley billionaires, likely to enjoy full control of Congress, and eager to usher in a wave of deregulation that we’ve likely not seen for decades. Many of the worst developments coming down the pipeline have been building for years now, in part because the Biden administration helped build the coming nightmare or left the pieces lying about for Trump to capitalize on. That’s going to make a few people in quite a few sectors very, very rich.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said on Thursday that the suicide bomber who tried to get into the top court on Wednesday had intended to blow up the building, casting it as part of a growing wave of attacks on democracy. Police identified the man who killed himself in a blast outside the Supreme Court as a former city council candidate from ex-President Jair Bolsonaro's right-wing party with a history of heated political rhetoric online. A police report seen by Reuters, confirmed as authentic by people familiar with the matter, said Francisco Wanderley Luiz, 59, threw an object at the court building that caused no damage, then laid on the ground and exploded a homemade bomb that killed him.

Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the market. And […]