SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
With barely days to go for Ganesh Chaturthi, Mumbai is making last-minute preparations for the arrival of its favourite elephant god. Ganeshtotsav will be celebrated under the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic for the second time this year, but that has done nothing to dampen spirits. Markets are crowded with shoppers looking for final knick-knacks, and pandal...
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
The US recorded four times as many COVID-19 cases in the run up to Labor Day than in the same period last year.
On Sunday, average new daily cases were at 163,728, compared to 41,488 on the same day in 2020.
The highly infectious Delta variant continues to spread around the country.
The US recorded almost four...
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Chanting "death to Pakistan", Afghan protesters, including women, took to the streets of Kabul on Tuesday, as they claimed that Pakistani jets conducted airstrikes in Panjshir province, according to a media report. The Taliban on Monday said they have seized Panjshir, the last province not in their control, after their takeover of the US-backed Afghanistan government last...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
Shonda Rhimes, Eva Longoria, Hilary Rosen, and Katie McGrath of Time's Up.
Time's Up came to an abrupt end this holiday weekend. The group may still have money in the bank. There are still useful programs in place to help survivors of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace.
But with the resignation of virtually the entire Time's Up...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. - Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
t was the big Brexit lie. No, not the £350m a week to spend on the NHS or the “bonfire” of red tape. The lie was that the shambles now enveloping British trade with Europe was an unavoidable price worth paying to leave the EU. That was...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur and Umesh Yadav all contributed too, as England lost 4 for 6 on the final afternoon to decisively swing the match
Brief Scorecard: India 191 (Thakur 57, Kohli 50, Woakes 4-55) and 466 (Rohit 127, Pujara 61, Thakur 60, Pant 50, Woakes 3-83) beat England 290 (Pope 81, Woakes 50, Umesh 3-76) and 210...
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...
