NYC police charge man with murder of woman set on fire on subway
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NEW YORK -- A man faces first-degree murder charges for allegedly setting a woman on fire as she slept on the New York City subway.
Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was charged Monday with first and second degree murder and arson after the shocking crime on an F train in Coney Island, Brooklyn over the weekend, police said.
Zapeta was taken into custody the day of the fire on the subway after police said three teenagers recognized him from photos released by the NYPD. Police said body camera footage and cameras inside the subway cars spotted him sitting on the platform and watching the woman burn.
Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii started erupting on Monday following a three-month pause, the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (USGS) said.
Washington — President Biden on Monday announced he had commuted the sentences of nearly all federal inmates on death row, with the exception of three who did not receive clemency.
Starbucks workers' strikes expanded on Saturday to include stores in Denver, Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio, Union leaders said.
Century-old department store Nordstrom has agreed to be acquired and taken private by Nordstrom family members and a Mexican retail group in a $6.25 billion deal that comes as department stores are facing pressure from discount chains and other competition.
More than one million delivery drivers collectively paid more than $10 million in fees after Walmart and Branch Messenger illegally opened costly deposit accounts in their names without consent, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday against the retailer and payments platform.
Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede said the island nation is "not for sale and will never be for sale," after President-elect Donald Trump suggested the U.S. should take it over.
The Container Store said late Sunday that it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after years of losses and declining sales.
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President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased — and used — illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen was hospitalized after being bucked off a horse he was riding on Sunday, according to a statement from his office.