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A Brooklyn man who bludgeoned an Asian woman to death will spend the next two decades behind bars, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Elisaul Perez was hit with the 20-year prison sentence after he attacked 61-year-old GuiYing Ma with a rock as she swept a sidewalk in her Corona neighborhood in November 2021, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. The 33-year-old admitted to the heartless crime last month when he pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in Queens Supreme Court. GuiYing Ma died three months after she was taken to the hospital. GoFundMe Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said she hopes the…

Cardinal George Pell has died at the age of 81 with Vatican Media reporting he passed away in Rome after complications from hip replacement surgery.George Pell was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1941 and ordained as a priest in 1966 before being named Archbishop of Melbourne in 1996 and later, Archbishop of Sydney in 2001.Pope John Paul II announced he would appoint him to the College of Cardinals in 2003, and Cardinal Pell helped elect Pope Benedict and Pope Francis. In 2017 he was charged with a series of sexual offences by Victoria Police and denied the accusations.He stood trial…

A Kelowna, B.C., man lost his bid to get his strata to pay $14,101 in income lost from not being allowed to offer short-term rentals. Michael William Murdrie owned a “strata lot” in a Kelowna strata building, and in 2021 that’s how much he made renting out the unit.What he didn’t realize, however, was that he needed to get a municipal business licence, so when 2022 rolled around, he went to his strata to get the necessary consent for another year of rentals.His application was turned down and the strata told him that while it didn’t have any bylaws prohibiting…

Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20mn in a large venture capital fund that then took a stake in his FTX cryptocurrency exchange group, an arrangement that highlights close links between the fallen billionaire and some of his backers.In late 2021 Bankman-Fried invested in a fund managed by Paradigm, a big backer of crypto start-ups. The same $2.5bn “Paradigm One” fund later invested in his FTX and FTX US exchanges, according to disclosures made this week in bankruptcy court.Paradigm One was at the time the biggest crypto-focused venture capital vehicle. As a result of the transactions, Bankman-Fried invested in and received financing from…

Sunday’s $2 million smash-and-grab heist at a Park Slope jewelry store is just the latest audacious attack in the once-quiet, upscale Brooklyn enclave, The Post has learned. Two other shops have been targeted by crooks in recent months, including Glitz Jewelers on 7th Avenue in August and an AT&T outlet — next to Facets Jewelry, which was ransacked this past weekend — on New Year’s Day. “The criminals are brazen,” said Eddie Khanimov, owner of Glitz Jewelers, where sledgehammer-wielding robbers made off with a third of his store’s inventory — $200,000 in gold and diamonds — in less than 10…

The America First Legal Foundation filed a class action lawsuit against six Texas medical schools on Tuesday, claiming the schools illegally admitted students based on race, sex, and nationality.In the lawsuit, the AFL Center for Legal Equality alleges that Whites, Asians and males withstand the worst of a policy used by universities and medical schools across the U.S., which grant admission to applicants based on lesser academic credentials than those more qualified. According to the AFL, a male student applied to six medical schools in Texas during the 2021-22 cycle and was denied acceptance to all six – which included…

California police are feverishly continuing their search and rescue efforts for a missing 5-year-old boy who was swept away by raging floodwaters in Central California amid the state’s catastrophic flooding and torrential rainfall that has left thousands of residents under flood watches.Authorities and family are holding out hope that 5-year-old Kyle Doan, a kindergarten student at Lillian Larsen Elementary School in San Miguel, can be found after he went missing Monday. On Monday at approximately 3 p.m., the search efforts were called off because rising levels of the Salinas River were too dangerous for divers to continue the search.CALIFORNIA BOY,…

If TV’s Holly Willoughby is brave enough to let her eight-year-old son, Chester, practise his hairdressing skills on her million-pound locks, who am I to stand in the way of my nearly-14-year-old Jesse cutting off a few split ends?The warning, “Cut more than an inch off my hair and I’m calling the police,” was ringing in my teenage daughter’s ears as I let her loose on my long, messy mop with a pair of sharp scissors. If TV’s Holly Willoughby is brave enough to let her eight-year-old son, Chester, practise his hairdressing skills on her million-pound locks, who am I…

If the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs square off in the AFC Championship Game, neither team will hold the home-field advantage. The NFL’s decision to play the game at a neutral site came last week after the Monday night game between the Bills and Cincinnati Bengals was canceled following Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest in the first quarter.  The neutral site game was finalized on Friday after a special meeting with league owners to “mitigate a possible competitive inequity” in the AFC playoffs. NFL OWNERS APPROVE RESOLUTION TO ADJUST AFC PLAYOFF SITES IF NEEDED FOLLWOING CANCELED BILLS-BENGALS GAMEThe Chiefs finished the…

Wells Fargo, long one of the biggest players in the mortgage business, is taking a big step back. The scandal-ridden bank announced a significant shift on Tuesday to focus its mortgage business on serving bank customers and minority homebuyers instead of acquiring new customers. Wells Fargo said it will also exit its correspondent business, which buys loans made by other lenders, and reduce the size of its mortgage servicing portfolio. The retreat will likely cause Wells Fargo to lay off at least some employees, though the bank did not announce any specifics. A spokesperson declined to comment on potential layoffs.…