Crypto giant Binance has fallen victim to the largest heist in history with $6.3bn (£4.7bn) stolen in a cyber attack.
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is racing to recover funds and has blocked customer withdrawals in the wake of the hack, which analysts blamed on North Korean hackers.
The company said hackers had compromised a tech engineer’s laptop, which had allowed them to make unauthorised withdrawals.
US death row inmate Christa Pike has released her first public statement since her botched execution in September.
“There hasn’t been a moment since that night when I haven’t been in pain,” she said in a statement released by her legal team on social media on Friday.
“My body hurts. My arms hurt. My hands hurt. My throat hurts. I still struggle to speak. And the pain isn’t just physical. There is pain in my mind and in my soul.”
A father and two of his adult daughters were shot during a violent home invasion in Toronto’s Bridle Path neighbourhood early Thursday morning, Toronto police say.
Police said three masked suspects armed with handguns and a hammer broke into the home, located on Hyde Park Circle, near Bayview and Lawrence avenues, at around 3:45 a.m.
Reginald Durocher told Ryan Clark he was going to tell the cops the accused killer was breaching his release conditions.
Clark reportedly replied that he had “got away with it once; what makes you think I couldn’t again?” He then told Durocher to watch his back.
Three to five seconds later, Durocher got in his truck and slammed it into Clark, killing him.
One of those “wrong” but understandable situations.
As his victim’s father wept “my son is gone,” the teenaged hitman who killed an innocent tow truck driver in Scarborough got credit for the harsh two years he’s already spent in youth custody due to “humiliating” strip searches and the lack of fresh air for six months while the outdoor yard was closed for repairs.
Virginia State Sen. Louise Lucas and various family members are in federal custody today, up on charges of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy with intent to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to commit audit services fraud, and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
When Andrew Rivard spotted a Crime Stoppers ad offering a $2,000 reward for tips in the winter of 2025, he decided to report what he knew about illegal cigarette sales in his neighbourhood.
Rivard’s original tip shows he disclosed his full name. He says he trusted the organization’s long-standing promise to protect the identities of all tipsters.
Everything gets hacked. @fancypants_s
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) October 22, 2026
While suspects in the Toronto airport gold heist were under intense, around-the-clock police surveillance, one of them franticly made increasingly angry and desperate phone calls chasing down money, feeling cheated and abandoned by his friends, court heard.
“It’s already falling apart,” a caller identified in court as Parmpal Sidhu said over the phone nine months after more than $22.5 million in gold bars and cash was stolen after arriving at Pearson airport on a flight from Switzerland.
There are times when the absence of Jonathan Swift is acutely felt. One such moment came at the end of last month with the botched execution of a woman in Tennessee called Christa Pike.
Pike has been in prison on death row since 1996 when she was convicted of the torture and murder of a classmate when she was just 18. She had originally been sentenced to death by electric chair. But society has become more benevolent since the 1990s and so, at the age of 50, Pike was prepared for execution by lethal injection.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ loved ones are shutting down “completely false” reports he got into a fight with a Jamaican drug lord over the weekend.
Loren LoRosa told “Breakfast Club” listeners Thursday that she “spoke to a family member of” the embattled rapper’s family who insisted “there was not a fight at all” despite TMZ’s recent claim otherwise.
The denial comes after Combs, 56, was sent to a hospital Saturday for a head injury he incurred during his stay at the Fort Dix prison in New Jersey.
Nine of the country’s biggest banks spent five years running an outrageous campaign to cut conservatives, Christians, pro-lifers, and Trump supporters out of the financial system, and the federal government now has the receipts.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its Debanking Review on Wednesday. Miranda Devine first broke the story in the New York Post. The 47-page report, titled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” draws on a hundred thousand complaints and fifty thousand internal bank records from 2020 through 2025. It names JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC, TD Bank, and BMO Bank.
Every one of them hid behind the same excuse: “reputation risk.”
TD has been caught in a string of questionable activities, even colluding with the likes of North Korea and drug cartels.
A mastermind behind the spectacular Toronto airport gold heist lost his share of the loot after fleeing to Pakistan, where he said he was kidnapped by police, blindfolded and tortured until he told them where he hid his gold and cash.
“I did everything for nothing,” Arsalan Chaudhary, 43, of Mississauga, Ont., testified Tuesday as a reluctant witness in court in Brampton, Ont.
Three generations of men, each named John Madeley, assembled as the youngest took the final step to join the family legacy.
It was 2022, and Madeley Jr. was being sworn-in as an officer with the Toronto Police Service, like his father and his father before him.
“It’s the proudest day of my life,” John Sr. beamed to a news camera, his son to his left, his father sitting to his right in a wheelchair.
Convicted killer Christa Pike is up, walking and angry about the two botched attempts to execute her last week, her lawyers say.
Pike, 50, woke up in the hospital on Tuesday, six days after she was given two supposedly lethal doses of the drug pentobarbital in a Tennessee prison last week.
Although she is still mentally ‘foggy,’ her attorney Stephen Ferrell says she is ‘very aware’ of what happened to her and doing ‘fairly well.’
How do you get to the point where the cops and the auditor general are being called in to deal with problems in the Ontario Student Assistance Program?
That’s a good question to ask after Nolan Quinn, the province’s Minister of Colleges and Universities, announced on Tuesday that it was happening. It came after internal investigations that started two years ago kept revealing bigger and bigger problems.
WTF?
CAN WE HAVE SOME G*D-D*MNED ACCOUNTABILITY FFS?
@fancypants_s— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) October 9, 2026
h/t Auntie Polly
