APRIL 22, 2021
Tesla's new electric Cybertruck pickup. - Getty Images
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Thursday that it has opened over two dozen investigations into Tesla crashes, according to a report from Reuters.
Twenty-seven investigations have been opened into Tesla crashes, 23 of which remain active, according to the wire service.
Four of the probes into the electric...
APRIL 22, 2021
FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden signs his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Biden laid out an ambitious agenda for his first 100 days in office, promising swift action on everything from climate change to immigration reform to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci,...
APRIL 20, 2021
Sophisticated Chinese government hackers are believed to have compromised dozens of U.S. government agencies, defense contractors, financial institutions and other critical sectors, according to a private cybersecurity firm working with the federal government.
The intrusions are ongoing, the FireEye security company said, and are the latest in a series of disturbing compromises of government agencies and private companies.
The...
APRIL 20, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS — Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts in the killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose death last May in police custody was captured on video that went viral and set off a summer of unrest over law enforcement’s treatment of people of color.
Mr. Chauvin sat impassively as Judge Peter Cahill read out the...
APRIL 18, 2021
File Photo: The US Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, is seen at sunset. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that 63% of Americans back term limits for Supreme Court justices.
Only 22% of respondents indicated opposition to any sort of term limits.
President Biden has assembled a commission to study...
APRIL 18, 2021
Representational image. - Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
India’s Covid-19 cases hit another grim record on Sunday, and local administration and doctors who are involved in fighting the outbreak at the moment are overworked.
Healthcare workers on the frontline are experiencing burnout of another kind when it comes to battling the virus – one entire year after...
APRIL 18, 2021
Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, with Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, in 2015. - Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images
For decades, India was a poster child for democratic development: a poor, sprawling, ethnically diverse country that nevertheless had regular elections and peaceful transfers of power – the hallmarks of a functioning democracy – albeit with the flaws inherent in...
APRIL 18, 2021
Health workers collects a swab sample from an employee of the Indian Council Of Historical Research (ICHR), at Firozeshah Road, on April 13, 2021 in New Delhi, India. - Arvind Yadav/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
As a brutal wave of coronavirus cases batters India, public health experts worry that a new, possibly more virulent coronavirus variant could be racing...
APRIL 17, 2021
A health worker collects nasal sample of a man for COVID-19 test, amid a surge in coronavirus cases, at HB Kanwatia Hospital in Jaipur,Rajasthan, India, Thursday, April 15, 2021.(Photo by Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
You must have heard the old adage: if you torture the data enough, it will confess to anything. Let me add an...
APRIL 17, 2021
Tamil actor and Padma Shri recipient Vivek passed away on Saturday at a private hospital in Chennai at the age of 59. He was admitted to SIMS Hospital on Friday morning after showing “acute coronary syndrome with cardiogenic shock”.
The actor’s untimely demise has left everyone in shock and celebrities from both industries have come together to mourn...
