SEPTEMBER 22, 2018
NEW DELHI - Stepping up his attack on the BJP-led central government over the Rafale issue, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “corrupt” and asked him to clarify his stance on the raging controversy.
“We are absolutely convinced that the Prime Minister of India is corrupt. This question is now clearly settled...
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Brief Scorecard: India 174 for 3 (Rohit 83*, Dhawan 40) beat Bangladesh 173 (Mehidy 42, Jadeja 4-29, Bhuvneshwar 3-33) by seven wickets
Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja celebrates after he dismissed Bangladesh batsman Mohammad Mithun as as Bangladeshi batsman Mushfiqur Rahim (L) looks on during the one day international (ODI) Asia Cup cricket match between Bangladesh and India at...
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
The sheriff of New Jersey’s most populous county apologized Thursday after a recording in which he reportedly made racist remarks about blacks as well as the state’s Sikh attorney general was published by the public news radio outlet WNYC, generating wide calls for him to step...
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
President Trump's former longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen has reportedly been questioned about Trump's dealings with Russia by special counsel Robert Mueller's team in a series of interviews in recent weeks.
ABC News reported Thursday that Cohen has sat for hours of interviews with Mueller's team, saying they have mainly focused on Trump's financial and business dealings with...
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Lucid Motors, the Bay Area electric car start-up, has been struggling to raise money for more than a year. Now it appears to have found some: more than a billion dollars from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.
If the deal announced Monday closes as Lucid expects, the company said it will have enough cash to finish engineering the...
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly tried to reinforce President Trump's perception that a bureaucratic "deep state" was working to undermine him.
Putin voiced those sentiments in phone conversations with the president, according to an excerpt of "The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy" that was published by The Washington Post on Wednesday. Its author, Greg...
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Barriers could halt slide of undersea glaciers and hold back sea level rises predicted to result from global warming.
Thwaites glacier in western Antarctica. - Photograph: Handout/AFP/Getty Images
Building walls on the seafloor may become the next frontier of climate science, as engineers seek novel ways to hold back the sea...
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Brief Scorecard: India 164 for 2 (Rohit 52, Dhawan 46) beat Pakistan 162 (Azam 47, Bhuvneshwar 3-15, Jadhav 3-23) by eight wickets
DUBAI, UAE - India completely outclassed arch-rivals Pakistan by 8 wickets in their Asia Cup clash on Wednesday in Dubai. Skipper Rohit Sharma (52) led from the front with a fine fifty alongside opening partner Shikhar...
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
She was 23 and not allowed to work in 2005 when she first came to the United States. Now 36, Archana Vaidyanathan is interviewing with major technology firms in Northern California to see if her expertise is still in demand.
Vaidyanathan holds an H-4 visa, given to family of those who come to the US with H-1B visas,...
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Facebook - Illustration by William Joel / The Verge
For years, Facebook has publicly positioned its Messenger application as a way to connect with friends and as a way to help customers interact directly with businesses. But a new report from The Wall Street Journal today indicates that Facebook also saw its Messenger platform as a siphon for...
