More than a dozen shipowners have made payments of about $300,000 apiece to release vessels detained by the Indonesian navy, which said they were anchored illegally in Indonesian waters near Singapore, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

Stephen Bannon, a prominent adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, has been criminally charged for defying a subpoena issued by a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the Justice Department said on Friday.

U.S. President Joe Biden will hold a virtual meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday night U.S. time, the White House said Friday, but officials stressed it is unlikely to yield a long list of specific outcomes.

Tesla Founder and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, created a buzz by selling nearly $7 billion worth of his company’s shares this week, with even more to come if he intends to fulfill a promise to his Twitter followers.

To highlight the discussion around the highly publcized Texas abortion law which bans pre-birth infanticde at six weeks in a pregnancy, the far left-leaning SNL sketch featured a popular character on the show, “Goober the Clown,” played by comedian Cecily Strong, on November 6.

A man who traveled to space with actor William Shatner aboard a Blue Origin rocket ship last month was killed in a small plane crash Thursday.