World stocks were on track for their longest losing streak in two years as the sight of oil prices heading for $100 a barrel compounded worries that interest rates will stay higher for longer.
The owner of a New York City day care centre where a 1-year-old child died after being exposed to fentanyl took steps to cover up her involvement in a sprawling drug operation, even as medics rushed to treat several children in her care who were poisoned by the opioid, federal prosecutors said.
NEW YORK FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is "subsisting on bread and water" because the federal jail where he is being held ahead of his fraud trial has not provided him with a vegan diet as he requested, his lawyer said on Tuesday (Aug 22). Bankman-Fried, 31, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to seven criminal charges.