JANUARY 15, 2023
Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain. - Steven Senne/AP
The road to online mockery is paved with good intentions.
On Friday, a collection of civic organizations unveiled a 22-foot-tall bronze statue in Boston Common, the nation’s oldest public park, honoring the relationship between the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott...
JANUARY 15, 2023
Secret Service personnel park vehicles in the driveway leading to U.S. President Joe Biden's house in Wilmington, Delaware.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee on Sunday demanded visitor logs for President Joe Biden's house in Wilmington, Delaware, after classified documents were found in his office and garage.
"Without a list of individuals who have...
JANUARY 14, 2023
KOZHIKODE: It will be "impossible" for the BJP to replicate its 2019 electoral triumph in 2024, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said, adding it is "conceivable" that the ruling party can lose "50 seats" in the Lok Sabha. The Thiruvananthapuram MP, who was speaking at the Kerala Literature Festival here on Friday, said while he concedes...
JANUARY 14, 2023
Cognizant, one of the most prominent IT companies in India, has appointed a new CEO. Ravi Kumar has been appointed as the company's new chief operating officer. He will also serve on the company's board. Kumar brings in over two decades of experience in the country's information technology sector. He has replaced Brian Humphries as CEO. Who...
JANUARY 14, 2023
Varanasi - Vegetarian Indian cuisine, assorted non-alcoholic beverages, a spa and doctors on call are some of the features of the world's longest luxury river cruise MV Ganga Vilas, which was flagged off on Friday for its 3,200 km maiden journey from this ancient city to Dibrugarh in Assam.
Strong connectivity essential for building developed India: PM...
JANUARY 14, 2023
Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra criticized Shankar Mishra's attorney on Saturday for saying in court that the woman complaining about the urination on Air India had a "incontinence" issue and urinated on herself.
Mishra's lawyer, Ramesh Gupta, pleaded not guilty in a Delhi court, asserting that the woman had peed on herself. The woman is a Kathak dancer,...
JANUARY 13, 2023
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) is offering hunters recommendations after a deer legally harvested in Fairfax County tested positive for a deadly, progressive neurological disease.
The deer was found to have chronic wasting disease (CWD), which officials describe as an incurable disease found in deer, elk and moose that is slow-acting and ultimately results in the...
JANUARY 13, 2023
Storms hit California
SALINAS, CALIFORNIA - California's Salinas River began creeping over its banks on Friday morning, flooding roads leading to nearby communities where 24,000 people were urged to evacuate in the face of yet another in a series of storms that have pelted the state.
Farmers worked feverishly to erect berms to protect their fields in the part...
JANUARY 13, 2023
President Joe Biden's handling of government records is under scrutiny amid the discovery of classified documents in his private office and the garage of his home in Wilmington, Del. - ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS, AFP via Getty Images
Revelations that classified documents going back to President Joe Biden’s years as vice president have been found in his private office in...
JANUARY 13, 2023
FILE - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks with reporters during a visit to the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation incubator at the Center for Innovative Technology campus in Herndon, Va., Oct. 21, 2022. Yellen has notified Congress that the U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit on Thursday and will then resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid...
