WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 -- The U.S. Navy's U.S. Fleet Forces Command issued the following news: By Lt. j.g. Julian Jacobs NEW YORK - On Saturday morning, nestled between the USS Intrepid, New York's Hell's Kitchen, and the cruise terminal, the Navy's newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS John Basilone, was brought to life. Commissioning ceremonies, as described by Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, are a time-honored tradition dating back to 1775. Now, 249 years later, the  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 12, 2024: * * * Transaction Threatens to Negatively Affect Care for Vulnerable Patients and Harm Home Health and Hospice Nurses Critical to Providing that Care * * * The Justice Department, together with the Attorneys General of Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today to block UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UnitedHealth)'s proposed $3.3 billion acquisi  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Abdi Yusuf Hassan and Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed Abused Their Somali Government Positions in Holding Michael Scott Moore Hostage for Nearly Three Years * * * Abdi Yusef Hassan, 56, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed, 43, of Mogadishu, Somalia, were both sentenced to 30 years in prison for hostage taking, terrorism, and firearms offenses, in connection with the 977-day hostage taking   more

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Nov. 12, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of DAQUAN SEYMOUR, a supervisor at the Horizon Juvenile Center ("Horizon"), a secure detention center for juveniles located in the Bronx, New York, in connection with his beating of a 16-year-old resident at Horizon ("Minor Victim-1"), and a  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Nov. 12, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ABDI YUSUF HASSAN and MOHAMED TAHLIL MOHAMED were both sentenced to 30 years in prison for hostage taking, terrorism, and firearms offenses, in connection with the 977-day hostage taking of an American journalist in Somalia. A jury in the Eastern Distr  more