SAMASTIPUR, India (AP) — Millions of Indians across 96 constituencies began casting their ballots on Monday as the country’s gigantic, six-week-long election edges past its halfway mark. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third straight term with an eye on winning a supermajority in Parliament. Monday’s polling in the fourth round of multi-phase national […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A fourth Indian national living in Canada has been charged in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India. British Columbia’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a release late Saturday that 22-year-old Amandeep Singh was already in the custody […]
LOS ANGELES — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level since late November, another setback for home shoppers in what’s traditionally the housing market’s busiest time of the year. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage rose to 7.17% from 7.1% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. […]
COLOGNE, Germany — For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived temporarily of oxygen, taught to camp in the snow, and schooled in physiology, anatomy, astronomy, meteorology, robotics, and Russian. On Monday, the five Europeans and an Australian graduated from basic training with […]
It makes no sense whatsoever for something to be both totally predictable and completely surprising, but leave it to the convoluted Matrix franchise to pull it off. As multiple outlets, including Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, have reported, a fifth Matrix movie is officially in the works. On the one hand, this is completely predictable […]
The famous fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square has a rotating cast of artworks that are refreshed every few years, so it’s not as if people are shocked that the current installation there is being replaced. It was a question of what, not if or when. In this case, the “what” is two pieces of […]
Congress once again passed a short-term funding patch to prevent a partial government shutdown, punting the ongoing spending fight for a few more days. The bill easily passed the House and Senate on Thursday, and is expected to be signed by President Biden ahead of the Friday midnight deadline to fund the government. Lawmakers are […]
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley took a massive beating over the weekend in her home state’s primary, losing to former President Donald Trump by about 20 percentage points. This marks her fourth loss in a row, which makes you wonder why she’s even staying in the race. Haven’t GOP voters made it clear […]
This time, a medical school neuroscientist is on the hot seat for research misconduct at Harvard. Claudine Gay could at least argue that her academic misconduct wasn’t exactly brain surgery, but now that two of the academic scandals are at Harvard Medical School and one includes a neuroscientist, you get the idea. This is not […]
The U.S. ramped up its war on Iran-backed Houthi rebels late Wednesday with another round of airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, the fourth such strike in just a week. Source link
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