SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II. - Campress/AP
Queen Elizabeth II, the seemingly eternal monarch who became a bright but inscrutable beacon of continuity in the United Kingdom during more than seven decades of rule, died Sept. 8 at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands. She was 96.
Her death, of undisclosed causes, was announced by Buckingham Palace.
In her reign,...
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple event on the campus of Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. - Jeff Chiu/AP
Apple kicked off its highly anticipated fall product launch on Wednesday, which includes a smartwatch model that can measure body temperature and track ovulation cycles. The tech giant is also replacing its...
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Hillary Clinton smiling -Evan El-Amin/Shutterstock
With the 2024 election looming upon us, talks of who and who will not run for president are beginning to heat up. Typically, candidates will wait until the midterm elections are over, which take place fall of this year, before announcing their bid for office -- but that doesn't stop the rumor...
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
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Ex-Attorney General William Barr’s scathing critique of a major court victory for Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents drama is escalating the scrutiny of the judge who put the brakes on the investigation.
Barr was once seen as a facilitator of the then-President’s penchant for tearing at the limits of presidential power. But since...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
The British colonised India some 164 years back and ruled us until we got our independence in the year 1947. India struggled to build its economy on its own after that and 75 years later, it has left behind the UK to become the fifth biggest world economy, while the UK stands at the sixth position globally,...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
Cyrus Mistry attends the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) shareholders, in Mumbai, India, Friday, June 27, 2014. Cyrus Mistry, former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, died in an accident on Sunday after his car crashed into a road divider in western India, police said. He was 54. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
Rep. G.K. Butterfield was proud to be in Congress. Some years ago, the veteran Democrat installed a vanity message on his congressional license plate, broadcasting the district he represents: North Carolina 1.
Those days are over.
In recent years, the number of menacing threats against sitting members of Congress has ballooned, forcing the Capitol Police to launch thousands of...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Commercial brands trendjacked the moment by promoting their products. (AFP)
One-word tweets are the new trend on Twitter after influential accounts like that of United States president Joe Biden and space agency NASA responded to American railway Amtrak's 'trains' tweet early Friday morning. Amtrak's tweet quickly went viral; at the time of writing this the message had about...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Prakash Raj shared some of these photos that also included Idols inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS.
The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi this year has seen many idols inspired by various things, especially Bollywood films. From Yash's KGF to Ram Charan's RRR and Allu Arjun's Pushpa: The Rise, pictures of several idols in Pandals have...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
US President Joe Biden. PHOTO: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
While President Biden warned the nation about threats to democracy in a prime time address on Thursday, ABC was airing a game show, “Press Your Luck.”
As Biden spelled out his objections to former president Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans,” NBC was broadcasting a rerun of “Law and Order.” CBS skipped the...
