MARCH 9, 2019
A new study finds that suburban neighborhoods outperform urban ones across the board.
The rise of the city and the decline of the suburbs has emerged as a common meme in recent years. The young, the educated, and the affluent have come streaming back to the urban core, driving up rents, driving out the poor, and giving rise...
MARCH 8, 2019
Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, appeared in a televised hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday.- (Credit: Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
For 14 seasons, on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” Donald J. Trump presented a gilded image of the Trump Organization, which the reality show depicted as a hard-charging, happy, successful business.
On Wednesday, before...
MARCH 8, 2019
A private dining room at Punjab Grill is covered in 150,000 hand-laid mirrors. - Rey Lopez/Eater DC
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The new North Indian restaurant from a global group looks like a palace
When diners step into the Penn Quarter outpost of Punjab Grill, the first stateside location of the luxury Indian brand, they’ll find a 4,700-square-foot palace...
MARCH 8, 2019
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that he did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize but suggested who could be conferred with the honour.
“I am not worthy of the Nobel Peace prize. The person worthy of this would be the one who solves the Kashmir dispute according to the wishes of the Kashmiri people and...
MARCH 8, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Australia 313 for 5 (Khawaja 104, Finch 93, Kuldeep 3-64) beat India 281 (Kohli 123, Richardson 3-37, Cummins 3-37, Zampa 3-70) by 32 runs
RANCHI - There hardly goes a day when Virat Kohli is not compared to Sachin Tendulkar, but in the Ranchi ODI he was a little more like Tendulkar: he scored an imperious...
MARCH 8, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Indians’ “American dream,” in jeopardy ever since the rise of Donald Trump, has already soured further in the first few months of 2019.
A series of measures taken by the US administration has ensured that the hopes of securing the much-sought-after H-1B visas became tougher—not just for techies, its biggest beneficiaries, but also their spouses...
MARCH 7, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. - Chesnot / Getty Images
That much was clear from a post CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared on Wednesday outlining the company’s newly stated direction. Intimate, encrypted, private messaging services like WhatsApp and Messenger are in. Facebook’s semi-public, not-very-private News Feed is out.
“I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services...
MARCH 7, 2019
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, sued the Trump Organization, saying the company stopped paying his legal fees in June 2018 and breached a contract to repay him for litigation expenses.
The suit filed Thursday is likely to prolong the bitter feud between the two men as Cohen heads to prison in May. Cohen, who...
MARCH 7, 2019
Autonomous vehicles may have more difficulty detecting pedestrians with dark skin than those with light skin. - Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests autonomous driving systems may have more difficulty detecting pedestrians with dark skin than those with light skin.
The researchers analyzed how effective image-detection systems were...
MARCH 7, 2019
POUNDBURY, DORSET - Queen Elizabeth II tours Queen Mother Square on October 27, 2016 in Poundbury, Dorset. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)
It’s 2019 — you can’t unlock your phone without reading about Jordyn Woods; shipping Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper is the internet’s favorite pastime; and Queen Elizabeth is a casual ‘grammer.
The Queen, 92, wrote her...
