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A New York drug kingpin was sentenced to a lengthy prison term Tuesday after he left two overdose victims to go to a Wendy’s restaurant.Holbrook resident Russell Defreitas, 55, was recently found guilty of operating as a major drug trafficker and 91 other charges. He was sentenced to 53 years in prison, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. In a press release Tuesday, the office said Defreitas was involved in “a large-scale cocaine and fentanyl trafficking operation in Suffolk County which caused two fentanyl overdose deaths.”The incident happened May 9, 2023, when the two victims — a male and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Colorado football program’s recent decision to retire Travis Hunter’s No. 12 and Sheduer Sanders’ No. 2 jerseys was met with some criticism. Both former Colorado players’ jerseys were officially retired earlier this month during a special ceremony at the Buffaloes spring game.Only four other players in Colorado football history have been honored via a jersey retirement. Colorado football dates back 135 years. The criteria applied to Sanders’ and Hunter’s respective retirements differentiate from what other former players faced.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter (IMAGN)In…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Colorado football program’s recent decision to retire Travis Hunter’s No. 12 and Sheduer Sanders’ No. 2 jerseys was met with some criticism. Both former Colorado players’ jerseys were officially retired earlier this month during a special ceremony at the Buffaloes spring game.Only four other players in Colorado football history have been honored via a jersey retirement. Colorado football dates back 135 years. The criteria applied to Sanders’ and Hunter’s respective retirements differentiate from what other former players faced.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter (IMAGN)In…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Angie Harmon’s “life changed” by welcoming a new pet into her home a little over a year after an Instacart delivery driver shot and killed her dog Oliver.On Monday, Harmon took to Instagram and shared a selfie with her dog lying on her chest. “Just me, my dog, and the realization that I’ve been demoted from human to FURNITURE. Happy Monday ya’ll,” she captioned her post.ANGIE HARMON ACCUSES INSTACART DELIVERY DRIVER OF SHOOTING AND KILLING HER DOG Angie Harmon has welcomed a new dog Lucy, left, after her dog Oliver, right, was shot…

Some married women across the U.S. are sharing that they’ve been facing unexpected hurdles in obtaining their REAL ID as the May 7th deadline looms to have the documentation to fly domestically.The common obstacle among them is proving their name change due to marriage without having in their possession their original marriage certificate needed to verify that change.It has become a logistical nightmare, for example, for Dorothy Ballone — formerly Hotchkiss — of Rochester, New York. She’s been on a mission to try to obtain her original marriage certificate from 67 years ago, she told Fox News Digital this week.NEW…

CNN  —  Venezuela is demanding that a 2-year-old girl be returned to her family after the United States deported her parents and kept the toddler in government custody. The Venezuelan foreign ministry on Monday accused the US of “kidnapping” Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal, saying she was separated from her mother as she was boarding a deportation flight back to Venezuela. It also said the girl’s father, Maiker Espinoza-Escalona, had been deported earlier by the US to a notorious prison in El Salvador. “(The US) once again committed the extremely serious offense of separating families and removing a minor from her…

CNN  —  Vice President JD Vance traveled to Capitol Hill late Wednesday to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate that killed a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s trade policy. Earlier in the evening, the Senate rejected the resolution that would have effectively blocked the Trump’s global tariffs by revoking the emergency order the president is using to enact them. Two senators who were set to vote for the resolution, GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell and Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, were absent, allowing the resolution to fail 49-49. Senate Majority Leader John Thune then moved to ensure that tariff…

Memphis, Tennessee AP  —  A cybercrime expert with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation testified Wednesday that a former Memphis police officer charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols took a cellphone photo of Nichols as he sat on the ground, propped up against a police car and struggling with serious injuries. TBI Special Agent Derek Miller testified in the trial of Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith, who have pleaded not guilty to state charges including second-degree murder. The three defendants already face the prospect of years in prison after they were convicted of federal charges last year.…

Constellation Research CEO R Ray Wang and Heritage Foundation Public Finance Economist EJ Antoni join ‘Mornings with Maria’ to discuss their outlooks for 2025. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Tuesday he thinks financial markets will overcome prevailing uncertainty to settle down for an anticipated rise in mergers with companies going through the public listing process. “If the level of uncertainty grows from here, yes, you will not see the same amount of capital activity, but things will settle down,” Solomon said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Francine Lacqua. “People need to transact, need to raise capital, need liquidity for…

The FDA chief has called into question whether the agency will approve and authorize the COVID-19 vaccine for winter.In August 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the updated mRNA COVID vaccine to protect against the current variants, and also approved an updated Novavax vaccine.FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, however, has expressed doubts about whether that is necessary for the 2025-2026 season.DEMENTIA RISK COULD DIP WITH COMMON VACCINE, STUDY SUGGESTS”We’re taking a look. I can’t comment on any particular application. As you know, we have a bunch of applications for those booster shots,” Makary told CBS News on Tuesday,…