A Utah man accused of posing as a doctor and making at least $2 million selling a fake Covid-19 cure was arrested last week, ending a three-year manhunt that was part of a Justice Department initiative to stem illegal profiteering amid the Covid-19 pandemic, prosecutors said this week. The man, Gordon Hunter Pedersen, 63, of…
Last fall, while cleaning a relative’s home in Los Angeles, a California family stumbled upon $10,000, roughly — but it wasn’t so simple to collect the treasure. It came in the form of an estimated one million pennies stored in dozens of bags and boxes. Nine months later, the family is still trying to find…
A day after striking a deal in principle with President Biden to raise the debt limit, Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his leadership team began an all-out sales pitch on Sunday to rally Republicans behind a compromise that was drawing intense resistance from the hard right. To get the legislation through a fractious and closely divided…