JUNE 20, 2019
President Donald Trump delivers a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House, on May 22, 2019. - Evan Vucci, AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump's administration is threatening to furlough or lay off up to 150 employees at the Office of Personnel Management if Congress does not agree to eliminate the federal agency or find...
JUNE 20, 2019
Iran shot down a United States surveillance drone early Thursday, both nations said, but they differed on the crucial issue of whether the aircraft had violated Iranian airspace, in the latest escalation in tensions that have raised fears of war between the two countries.
Iranian officials said that the drone was over Iran, which the American military denied...
JUNE 19, 2019
FILE PHOTO: Man holds the flags while people take part in the 35th India Day Parade in New York. - Reuters/Eduardo Munoz
The United States has told India it is considering caps on H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, widening the...
JUNE 19, 2019
Brief Scorecard: New Zealand 245 for 6 (Williamson 106*, de Grandhomme 60, Morris 3-49) beat South Africa 241 for 6 (Van der Dussen 67, Ferguson 3-59) by four wickets
Kane Williamson celebrates his century - Getty Images
EDGBASTON, ENGLAND - South Africa came well and truly acropper against Kane Williamson's cool and Colin de Grandhomme's muscle, New Zealand all...
JUNE 19, 2019
The BMW 8 Series is one heck of a flagship coupe, offering impressive amounts of ride quality, performance, interior trimmings, you name it. The 6 Series it replaced eventually spawned a longer, extra-doored Gran Coupe variant, and as luck would have it, BMW had the same thing planned for its new big-boy coupe.
BMW unveiled the 2020 8...
JUNE 18, 2019
MH370 - Malaysia airlines disappearance.
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 mysteriously vanished on March 8, 2014.
William Langewiesche, in The Atlantic's July 2019 cover story, unearthed new evidence that points to "the most horrific theory" on why the plane disappeared.
The report suggests that Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the captain on Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, was mentally unstable.
It remains...
JUNE 18, 2019
Brief Scorecard: England 397 for 6 (Morgan 148, Bairstow 90, Naib 3-68) beat Afghanistan 247 for 8 (Shahidi 76, Archer 3-52) by 150 runs
MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM - England dished out one of their most devastating performances with the bat in the World Cup 2019 on Tuesday as they crushed Afghanistan by 150 runs in Manchester to grab...
JUNE 18, 2019
A screenshot for Google Calendar. (Photo: Google)
Now you won't have to remember when and where your next appointment is.
That's because the widely used Google Calendar was back up Tuesday afternoon (at least for some users) after being down for much of the morning.
Users trying to access Google Calendar from their computers had received a “Not Found Error 404” message.
Google acknowledged the service disruption with...
JUNE 17, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Bangladesh 322 for 3 (Shakib 124*, Liton 94*, Tamim 48) beat West Indies 321 for 8 (Hope 96, Lewis 70, Hetmyer 50, Mustafizur 3-59, Saifuddin 3-72) by seven wickets
TAUNTON, ENGLAND - Shakib Al Hasan produced one of the great World Cup performances, stringing a domineering 124 not out to his two-wicket haul as he anchored...
JUNE 17, 2019
Suffering a heart attack leaves a patient with high propensity to develop high blood pressure, high blood sugar levels, and even clot formation.
In the first year of a heart attack, the risk of another attack, and even death, is considerably high.
Even if one escapes a second heart attack, the risk of patients not returning to activity levels...
