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Uber and Lyft to pay $328 million in New York wage theft settlement

Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft will pay a combined USD 328 million to settle wage theft claims in New York, Attorney General Letitia James announced on Thursday. James said the settlements resolve investigations into the companies improperly charging drivers sales taxes and other fees when the costs should have been paid by customers. Uber will pay USD 290 million and Lyft will pay USD 38 million. The money will be distributed to current and former drivers, she said. The companies have also agreed to provide drivers outside of New York City with paid sick leave and give drivers outside of New York City a minimum wage of USD 26 per hour. Rideshare drivers work at all hours of the day and night to take people wherever they need to go, James said in a statement. For years, Uber and Lyft systemically cheated their drivers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in pay and benefits while they worked long hours in challenging conditions. Tony West, chief legal officer for Uber, said

WeWork Inc's bankruptcy filing will not impact India biz: CEO Virwani

Co-working space provider WeWork Inc. wishes to move forward with filing a bankruptcy sometime in the next week, as reported by The Wall Street Journal

New York judge to look at Donald Trump's comments, reconsider $10,000 fine

A New York judge said Thursday he would take a fuller look at Donald Trump's out-of-court comments and reconsider a USD 10,000 fine he imposed on the former president a day earlier at his civil fraud trial. The development came after Trump's lawyers urged Judge Arthur Engoron to rethink the penalty. The judge fined Trump on Wednesday after finding that his comments to TV cameras outside the courtroom violated a gag order that bars participants in the trial from commenting publicly on the judge's staff. Outside court Wednesday, the Republican presidential front-runner complained that Engoron, a Democrat, is a very partisan judge with a person who's very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is. The comment came weeks after Engoron imposed the gag order in the wake of a Trump social media post that disparaged the judge's principal law clerk. She sits next to Engoron, and Trump's lawyers had groused a bit earlier about the clerk's facial expressions

Trump fined $10,000 over comment made outside court in civil fraud trial

The judge in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial fined the former president USD 10,000 on Wednesday, saying Trump violated a limited gag order barring personal attacks on court staffers. The fine came after Trump was called to the witness stand to explain his comment outside the courtroom about a person who's very partisan sitting alongside the judge in the case, Judge Arthur Engoron. Weeks ago, Engoron ordered all participants in the trial not to comment publicly about his staff. The narrow gag order imposed on Oct. 3 came after Trump made a social media post maligning the judge's principal law clerk, who sits beside Engoron in court. The judge ordered Trump to take down that post and Trump did. But it lingered on his campaign website for weeks, prompting a $5,000 fine for Trump on Friday. Trump and his lawyers said his comment Wednesday was about witness Michael Cohen, not the clerk. Three of Trump's attorneys objected to the fine, insisting that the comment was referring to Cohen,

Sikh teen assaulted in New York for wearing turban in hate crime attack

In a suspected hate crime, a 19-year-old Sikh was assaulted and injured in New York for wearing a turban while travelling in a shuttle bus, the police said. The attack took place early on Sunday when the Sikh teen was riding a shuttle bus in Queens, a borough of New York City, CBS News channel reported. According to the police, the suspect approached the victim, asking him to remove his turban and said, "We don't wear that in this country and take that mask off!" The attacker then repeatedly punched the teen in his face, back, and the back of his head, causing minor cuts. He also tried to remove the victim's turban from his head before getting off the bus and leaving the scene on foot, the report said. Police described the suspect as "a male, 25-35 years of age, dark complexion, slim build, approximately 5'9" tall, with brown eyes and black hair," and sought the public's help to find him. The New York Police Department hate crime unit is investigating the incident, and the police

Trump returning to civil trial next week with Michael Cohen set to testify

Donald Trump will back in court next week for his New York civil fraud trial, a person familiar with the former president's plans told The Associated Press on Thursday, setting up a potential face-to-face showdown with fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen, who is expected to testify. The 2024 Republican front-runner voluntarily attended the first three days of the trial last week, turning the Manhattan courthouse into a campaign stop as he watched testimony and complained to TV cameras about the case, which cuts to the heart of his image as a successful businessman and threatens to cost him control of marquee properties such as Trump Tower. Trump is expected to attend the non-jury trial Tuesday through Thursday next week, according to the person who confirmed the plans, which were first reported by news website The Messenger. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity before an official announcement. It's been 5 years since we have seen one another," Cohen said via text message,

'Will be back at defence table', says Trump as fraud trial gets intense

After a fiery first day of opening statements, lawyers in Donald Trump's business fraud trial in New York will move on Tuesday to the more plodding task of going through years of his financial documents in what's expected to be a weekslong fight over whether they constitute proof of fraud. An accountant who prepared Trump's financial statements for years is expected to be back on the witness stand for a second day. Trump, who spent a full day Monday as an angry spectator at the civil trial, said he'll be back at the defense table. See you in Court on Tuesday morning! Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. The trial is the culmination of a lawsuit in which New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, has accused the Republican former president of deceiving banks, insurers and others for years by giving them papers that misstated the value of his assets. Judge Arthur Engoron delivered an early victory to James last week, ruling that Trump committed fraud by exaggerating

Trump denounces biz practices case as 'scam' as he arrives for NY trial

Former President Donald Trump denounced the civil fraud case over his business practices as a politically motivated scam as he arrived defiantly for a trial in the lawsuit, which could cost him control of Trump Tower and other prized properties. This is a continuation of the single greatest witch hunt of all time, he said as he made a voluntary trip to a New York court for a trial that has high stakes for him. It's a scam. It's a sham, the Republican said, reiterating claims that New York Attorney General Letitia James' suit is a politically motivated attempt to thwart his return to the White House. What we have here is an attempt to hurt me in an election, he charged, adding: I don't think the people of this country are going to stand for it. He looked away from James, a Democrat, as he passed her on the way into court, with a disgusted look on his face. The suit accuses Trump and his company of deceiving banks, insurers and others by habitually lying about his wealth in financia

Donald Trump arrives in court for trial scrutinising his business practices

New York Attorney General Letitia James' suit accuses Trump and his company of deceiving banks, insurers and others by habitually lying about his wealth in financial statements

Will be in courtroom for New York trial scrutinising biz practices: Trump

With control over some of his most prized real estate holdings in jeopardy, former President Donald Trump says he will make a rare, voluntary trip to court Monday for the start of a civil trial in a lawsuit that has already resulted in a judge ruling that he committed fraud in his business dealings. I'm going to Court tomorrow morning to fight for my name and reputation, Trump wrote Sunday night on his Truth Social platform. Trump lashed out in his post at New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is suing him, and Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the non-jury trial and made the fraud ruling last week. THIS WHOLE CASE IS SHAM!!! Trump wrote. See you in Court - Monday morning. The trial is the culmination of a yearslong investigation by James, who accused Trump and his company of habitually lying about his wealth in financial statements. Last week, Engoron resolved the lawsuit's top claim before the trial even began, ruling that Trump routinely deceived banks, insurer

Jaishankar meets UNGA President Dennis Francis on 9-day visit to New York

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met the President of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly Dennis Francis here on Monday. The minister began his nine-day visit to the US on Friday last week, primarily to attend the annual session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York and to host a special event on Global South. Jaishankar met Francis at the UN headquarters and thanked him for his presence at the special India-UN for Global South: Delivering for Development' side event Jaishankar hosted in New York on Saturday last on the margins of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. He is scheduled to meet UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres later on Monday. On Sunday, Jaishankar held a series of separate bilateral meetings with his global counterparts, including from Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Armenia, on the sidelines of the high-level UN General Assembly session here, exchanging views on reforming multilateralism and cooperation in G20.

EAM Jaishankar holds bilateral meet with his Cyprus counterpart in New York

Prior to this, the EAM Minister met the Foreign Minister of Uganda, Gen JeJe Odongo and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and held bilateral talks

1 killed, many hurt as bus carrying children crashes on New York highway

A charter bus carrying schoolchildren crashed on a New York highway and went down an embankment Thursday, killing one person and hurting multiple other people, police said. The wreck happened on Interstate 84 in the town of Wawayanda, about 45 miles northwest of New York City, state police said. The bus was carrying students from Long Island to a band camp in Pennsylvania, according to a message sent to several local news outlets by the Farmingdale Union Free School District. Video taken from news helicopters showed the bus lying on its side in trees and shrubs yards off the road in the median between the westbound and eastbound sides of the highway. Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus told WNBC-TV that there were around 45 people on the bus, mostly children. He said at least five people were badly hurt. The crash happened around 1:20 pm. News footage showed emergency vehicles on the highway, which was closed in both directions.

Trump's last-minute legal challenge could disrupt New York fraud trial

A last-minute legal challenge by Donald Trump 's lawyers could disrupt a trial scheduled for next month in the New York attorney general's business fraud lawsuit against the former president and his company. A state appeals court judge on Thursday ordered a potential postponement of the non-jury trial, scheduled to start October 2, after Trump's lawyers filed a lawsuit accusing the trial judge, Arthur Engoron, of repeatedly abusing his authority. Justice David Friedman, a judge on the state's intermediate appellate court, granted an interim stay of the trial and ordered the full appeals court to consider the lawsuit on an expedited basis. The court indicated it would issue a decision the week of September 25, meaning the trial could still start on schedule depending on how it rules. Among the issues raised by Trump's lawyers were Engoron's terse refusal to grant their recent request for a three-week trial delay, which he ruled as completely without merit, and lingering uncertainty

Quad foreign ministers likely to meet at UNGA next month in New York

The foreign ministers of the Quad countries are likely to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York next month with a focus on expanding overall cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The Quad, comprising India, the US, Japan and Australia, has been focusing on practical cooperation to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China's increasing military muscle-flexing in the region. The Quad foreign ministers are expected to deliberate on ways to further boost cooperation in the Indo-Pacific under the framework of the coalition, the people cited above said. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi last held talks in India in March. In the meeting, they reaffirmed the grouping's commitment for a free and open Indo-Pacific and said it strongly supports the rule of law, ...

China Evergrande Group files for bankruptcy in New York amid debt crisis

The move protects it from creditors in the US while it works on a restructuring deal elsewhere

NYC bans use of TikTok on city-owned phones, joining federal govt

New York City has directed its employees to delete TikTok from their city-issued phones, joining the federal government and more than half of US states in banning the use of the Chinese-owned social media app on government-owned devices. While social media is great at connecting New Yorkers with one another and the city, we have to ensure we are always using these platforms in a secure manner," Jonah Allon, a spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams, said in a statement Thursday. Allon said the city's top information security officials determined that TikTok posed a security threat to the city's technical networks and directed the app's removal from city-owned devices within 30 days. The federal government ordered employees to delete TikTok from government-issued cellphones earlier this year amid concerns that its parent company, ByteDance, could give user data to the Chinese government. More than half of U.S. states have enacted similar bans. New York state has prohibited the use of TikT

New York bans TikTok on government devices citing 'security concerns'

New York City on Wednesday banned TikTok on government-owned devices citing 'security concerns' thus joining the list of more than two dozen states that have restricted access to the short video app

Pig kidney works in donated body, enables animal-human transplants

Surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal. The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one - and it's not over. Researchers are set to track the kidney's performance for a second month. Is this organ really going to work like a human organ? So far it's looking like it is, Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of NYU Langone's transplant institute, told The Associated Press. It looks even better than a human kidney, Montgomery said on July 14 as he replaced a deceased man's own kidneys with a single kidney from a genetically modified pig and watched it immediately start producing ...

United Airlines to boost frequency of Delhi-New York flight to twice a day

American carrier United Airlines on Tuesday announced increasing the frequency of its flight services between Delhi and New York/Newark to twice daily, from once at present, starting October 29 this year. In line with the existing year-round service, the additional flight will also be operated with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, United Airlines said in a statement. With the addition of the second flight, United will offer more flights from India to the US than any other American carrier during the winter season and is the only US airline to operate the 787 Dreamliner from India, it said. "India continues to be an integral part of United's global network and we are delighted to announce this additional daily flight from New Delhi, operated with 787 Dreamliner aircraft," said Harvinder Singh, Director, Middle East and India at United Airlines. United's 257-seater Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft consists of 48 all-aisle-access PolarisSM business suites, 21 premium PlusSM, 39 econo