The criminal trial of two luxury real-estate brokers and their brother kicked off Tuesday with prosecutors portraying them as wealthy sex traffickers, while their lawyers said they were being unfairly ...

The sex-trafficking trial of Oren, Tal, and Alon Alexander has kicked off with opening arguments. A prosecutor told jurors that the Alexander brothers "celebrated their crimes." The brothers are ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

San Francisco Ballet's choreographer-in-residence Yuri Possokhov has created a free-spirited, crowd-pleasing "Eugene Onegin." Set to a dramatic yet always lovely score by Possokhov's Russian ...

NEW YORK — Three wealthy brothers, including two who were successful real estate brokers in New York and Miami, systematically raped numerous girls and women after enticing them with extravagant trips ...

San Francisco Ballet Artistic Director Tamara Rojo said she’s an admirer of British choreographer John Cranko and his 1965 opus “Eugene Onegin.” The company has performed it several times, and it is ...

Just weeks before a federal jury is scheduled to hear allegations of a two-decade sex trafficking scheme, federal prosecutors have expanded their case against the Alexander brothers, charging two of ...

Two of the three Alexander brothers pleaded not guilty to a new count added to an 11 count indictment against them and their brother on Tuesday, weeks before their federal sex trafficking trial is set ...

Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher serving a three-year prison sentence in Russia for violating Moscow's foreign agent laws, has been freed as part of a prisoner exchange, French and Russian ...

On December 28, 1925, the young and very popular Russian poet Sergei Esenin hanged himself in the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad. His suicide generated an outpouring of shock and grief throughout the ...