SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
After a thunderstorm tore across Iowa in August 2020, causing some $4 billion in damage, six construction workers drove from Texas to Cedar Rapids, to help rebuild. Promised daily pay of around $200 cash plus travel and housing costs, the men arrived in Iowa in October and began work on a senior living center, painting walls and...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, has suggested that he would like to see continued job gains before slowing the central bank’s support for the economy. - Susan Walsh/AP
Federal Reserve officials who have been looking for continued improvement in the labor market received a discouraging piece of news on Friday, when the Labor Department reported...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
The iPhone 13, shown in this render, could be arriving soon. EverythingApplePro
Don't get too excited, but we may have a guess for the iPhone 13 release date. After sorting through all the clues and rumors, we expect Apple's next iPhone, said to be called the iPhone 13, to arrive in the next few weeks for the...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
US Former House speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), right, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) see different futures for the party because of their differing views on former president Donald Trump. - 2018 photo by Astrid Riecken /TWP
Just 80 miles separate Simi Valley from Yorba Linda, two cities on opposite ends of Los Angeles that help...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday described China as a “role model” for the developing countries to address poverty, saying Beijing’s high economic growth has brought 800 million people out of penury. Prime Minister Khan was speaking virtually at a forum on the 20th Anniversary of Juncao Assistance and Sustainable Development Cooperation being held in Beijing,...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
President Joe Biden said the U.S. economy remains strong after a disappointing jobs report, blaming a retrenchment in hiring on the spread of the delta variant of coronavirus.
“What we’re seeing is an economic recovery that’s durable and strong,” he said Friday, crediting his own policies including a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill earlier this year.
“The measures we’ve...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Taliban fighters gather at Kabul's international airport on Tuesday after the U.S. military's withdrawal. (Khwaja Tawfix Sediqi/Associated Press)
As the last U.S. troops exited Afghanistan, at least 50 dogs were believed to have been left behind at the international airport in Kabul, according to animal welfare and rescue groups.
The Pentagon denied that the abandoned dogs were U.S....
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Protesters opposed to Covid-19 vaccine mandates and vaccine passports outside City Hall in New York last month. - Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Unvaccinated people should avoid traveling during the Labor Day holiday, the director of the C.D.C said.
As Covid hospitalizations reached a daily average of 100,000 for the first time since last winter’s surge, Dr....
AUGUST 29, 2021
As India made frantic efforts to evacuate diplomatic and other personnel at its Embassy, and other Indians and Afghans over a tense two days after the fall of Kabul on August 15, among those critical to the negotiations for safe passage for the Indian convoy from the Embassy to the airport — besides the Americans — were...
AUGUST 28, 2021
Brief Scorecard: England 432 (Root 121, Malan 70, Hameed 68, Burns 61, Shami 4-95) beat India 78 (Sharma 19, Anderson 3-6, Overton 3-14) and 278 (Pujara 91, Sharma 59, Kohli 55, Robinson 5-65) by an innings and 76 runs
Ollie Robinson walks back in style after his five-for and England's win. - AP
It promised to be a...
