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Why the Democratic Party's Approach to Immigration is the Right One
As a South Asian, I understand the frustration many of us feel when it comes to immigration. My family, like so many others, worked hard to come here legally. We navigated a complex system, waited years, and sacrificed a lot to make this country o...
What Has the Biden/ Harris Administration Achieved?
Very often, while engaging in a discussion with friends and family, the question comes up: But what has this administration actually done? How am I benefiting from this? I thought I’d share some data points Disclaimer: This is by no means an exha...
Why Trump’s Lies Are Dangerous
Trust is what holds everything together in a democracy. When people don’t trust the government, or even basic facts, everything starts to fall apart. Think about the deep cynicism many of us have about politicians in India and other South Asian co...
How does Project 2025 affect us South Asians?
Project 2025, backed by conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, is gearing up to shape the next Republican administration—especially if Donald Trump makes a comeback. Trump’s Agenda 47 heavily borrows from this plan and the architec...
Opinion: Will we survive the age of information disorder?
Technology now threatens progress as misinformation distorts our ability to tell fact from fiction and right from wrong. Having weathered the COVID-19 storm, we are now on the cusp of another pandemic that is even more dangerous and insidious: a p...
ASIAN AMERICAN CAUCUS AND SPECIAL GUEST U.S. SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH CELEBRATE ASIAN AMERICAN POLITICAL GROWTH AT 2024 DNC
Elected officials shared model of success with representatives from across the nation CHICAGO – On the heels of milestone elections of Asian American candidates and in the midst of the historic 2024 Democratic National Convention and nomination of...
2 US ’mercenaries’ captured in failed kidnapping plot, Maduro says
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said authorities arrested two U.S. citizens among a group of “mercenaries” on Monday, a day after a beach raid purportedly aimed at capturing the socialist leader that authorities say t...
“Murder hornet,” invasive insect from Japan, found in the U.S.
Hundreds of Asian giant hornets, an invasive, predatory insect dubbed the “murder hornet,” have found in Washington state near the Canadian border. The Asian giant or ‘murder’ hornet can grow up to two inches long with a sting that delivers a pote...
U.S. Death Toll Projections Double As Researchers Measure Impact Of Eased COVID-19 Lockdowns
NEW YORK: A newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicts nearly 135,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August, almost double previous projections, as social-distancing measures for quelling the pandemic are increasingly relaxed, r...
U.S. Death Toll Projections Double As Researchers Measure Impact Of Eased COVID-19 Lockdowns
NEW YORK: A newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicts nearly 135,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August, almost double previous projections, as social-distancing measures for quelling the pandemic are increasingly relaxed, r...
Coronavirus worse ‘attack’ than Pearl Harbor, 9/11: Trump
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of China over the global coronavirus pandemic and said it has been worse for the United States than Pearl Harbor and 9/11. As Germany unveiled plans for a return to near-normality — incl...
Man From Chicago Launches First Halal Angels Network To Promote Innovation Entrepreneurship & Startups To Tap $5 Trillion, Halal Consumer Market
Launched World’s First Halal Angels Network to promote Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Startups to tap $5 trillion, Halal consumer market. “The areas of interest for investments would be future technologies (Blockchain, Fintech AI, etc), Modest Fas...
Feeding Manhattan’s hungry, every Ramadan night
NEW YORK — Fast. Pray. Act. Fast. Pray. Act. For a group of Brooklyn Muslims, the holy month of Ramadan is a blur: They fast during daylight hours, pray repeatedly, and use every bit of their remaining energy to feed the hungry. And not just for t...
Coronavirus hits hard as US records biggest job losses in history
WASHINGTON: Nearly all of the jobs created in the US economy in the last decade were wiped out in a single month as shops and factories remain closed nationwide due to the coronavirus pandemic. An unprecedented 20.5 million jobs were destroyed in ...
Donald Trump administration working on temporary ban on visas like H-1B
The United States is mulling to temporarily ban the issuance of work-based visas including H-1B, popular among highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, amidst the high level of unemployment due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown. The H-1B is a no...
Ivanka Trump assistant tests positive for coronavirus, among other White House staff
Ivanka Trump’s personal assistant has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and has become the third staff member in the White House to be affected by the infection,CNN reported on Saturday. The assistant used to work in a personal capacity fo...
U.S. continues media battle with Beijing, limits Chinese journalists’ visas
The Department of Homeland Security said Friday the United States will shorten the visa length for Chinese journalists working for non-American news outlets to 90 days. Previously, journalists with Chinese passports were granted open-ended visas. ...
US adds 1,568 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours: tracker
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States recorded 1,568 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 78,746, according to the latest real-time tally reported by Johns Hopkins University at 8:30 pm Saturday (0030 GMT Sunday). The coun...
US Supreme Court to take on Trump taxes and presidential immunity
WASHINGTON – Can Donald Trump refuse to turn over his tax returns and financial records to Congress and New York prosecutors? The Supreme Court takes up this politically charged question on Tuesday, and it may use the occasion to better define the...
‘Trump Death Clock’ counts preventable US coronavirus deaths
A billboard in New York’s Times Square shows the number of US coronavirus deaths that its creator says could have been avoided if President Donald Trump had acted sooner — and it’s called the “Trump Death Clock.” Created by filmmaker Eugene Jareck...
Wuhan to test entire population after new virus cluster
WUHAN: Wuhan plans to conduct coronavirus tests on the Chinese city’s entire population after new cases emerged for the first time in weeks in the cradle of the global pandemic, state media reported Tuesday. Officials have been ordered to submit b...
U.N. Warns of Global Mental Health Crisis Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
LONDON: Health experts from United Nations have warned that a mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation, poverty and anxiety by the pandemic of COVID-19. “The iso...
USA Police Killed Black Health Worker
The police of United States of America killed of a emergency health worker 26-year-old in her apartment in Kentucky has triggered a fresh wave of anger in the USA over officers shooting black civilians. “Black Lives Matter” slogan protests have er...
At least 100 dead in Mexico from drinking tainted alcohol
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – More than 100 people in Mexico have died from drinking adulterated alcohol over the past two weeks, according to a tally by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma on Wednesday, as measures to halt the coronavirus’ spread have crim...
U.S. airlines tell crews not to force passengers to wear masks
The top three U.S. airlines have told their flight attendants not to force passengers to comply with their new policy requiring face coverings, just encourage them to do so, according to employee policies reviewed by Reuters. American Airlines Gro...
China Asks US To ‘Meet Halfway’ After Trump Threatens To Cut Ties
China on Friday urged the United States to meet it halfway and strengthen cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic after US President Donald Trump threatened to sever bilateral ties. Relations between the world’s two largest econo...
US Faces “Darkest Winter” If Pandemic Planning Falters: Whistleblower
WASHINGTON: A whistleblower who says he was removed from his government post for raising concerns about coronavirus preparedness told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the United States could face “the darkest winter” of recent times if it ...
Nimish Jani Elected to Represent IL-8 on the Illinois Republican State Central Committee
Nimish Jani Elected to Represent IL-8 on the Illinois Republican State Central Committee Nimish Jani of Cook County was elected to represent the 8th Congressional District on the Illinois Republican State Central Committee. The Committee is the go...
Esteemed medical journal blasts Trump’s coronavirus response in ‘stunning’
One of the world’s oldest and best-known medical journals Friday slammed President Trump’s “inconsistent and incoherent national response” to the novel coronavirus pandemic and accused the administration of relegating the Centers for Disease Contr...
JCPenney files for bankruptcy
The US department store chain said it reached an agreement with existing lenders for $900 million of debtor-in-possession financing to aid operations while it navigates bankruptcy proceedings in federal court in Corpus Christi, Texas JC Penney Co ...
Trump selects Muslim American to find Covid-19 vaccine
US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new team and a new plan to drastically speed up the effort to find and distribute a vaccine for the coronavirus. “It’s called Operation Warp Speed. That means big and that means fast,” Trump said. Declaring...
India and Bangladesh brace for strong cyclone
KOLKATA: Millions of people were being moved to safety as one of the fiercest cyclones in years barrelled towards India and Bangladesh on Tuesday, but with evacuation plans complicated by coronavirus precautions. “Amphan” is expected to pack winds...
Trump’s use of malaria drug likely to be welcomed in India
U.S. President Donald Trump‘s declaration that he was taking an antimalarial drug of dubious effectiveness to help fend off the coronavirus will likely be welcomed in India. Trump’s previous endorsement of hydroxychloroquine catalyzed a tremendous...
US 8th case of coronavirus confirmed
Washington: US health officials on Saturday confirmed an eighth case of the fast-spreading new coronavirus in the US in a person who had travelled to China. The latest US patient, who was not identified, is in Massachusetts, a spokeswoman for the ...
Bill Gates' daughter Jennifer engaged to Egyptian equestrian Nayel Nassar
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and wife Melinda Gates’ eldest daughter Jennifer announced her engagement to Egyptian equestrian. The daughter of the billionaire shared a post on Instagram, announcing the big news. "Nayel Nassar, you are one of a kin...
Pentagon now says 64 troops injured in Iran strike
WASHINGTON: The number of US troops injured by an Iranian strike in Iraq this month has risen to 64, according to new figures released by the Pentagon. US President Donald Trump had initially said no Americans were hurt by the missiles fired on a ...
WWE Star Shad Gaspard Found Dead on Beach
Former WWE star Shad Gaspard was found dead on a California beach early Wednesday morning, three days after he was caught in a rip tide while swimming with his son. According to United States (US) media outlets, the police authorities were notifie...
Magnitude 6.4 Earthquake in Puerto Rico
HAVANA: A major earthquake that hit the Caribbean Tuesday rocked the Cuban capital Havana, causing buildings to be evacuated and briefly sending hundreds of people into the streets. The quake rattled several tall buildings in the city, which were ...
Kobe Bryant, daughter among 9 dead in helicopter crash in Southern California
NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter were among five people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on Sunday, a source confirmed to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. Bryant was 41. Bryant was on his way to a travel basketball game with...
Kobe Bryant dead at 41 after helicopter crash, according to report
LOS ANGELES: Basketball legend Kobe Bryant died late Sunday in a helicopter crash in suburban Los Angeles, celebrity website TMZ reported, in an accident confirmed by police that saw five people killed. Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials said ...
Democrats wrap up case against Trump in Senate trial, defense team to take the floor
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's lawyers prepared to deliver the US president's first full-throated defense on Saturday in the Senate's historic impeachment trial, after Democratic prosecutors spent three days making their case for the Tump's removal fr...
Powerful explosion rips through building in US city of Houston
At least two people have been killed and seven injured after a massive explosion ripped through a factory in Houston. The blast sent huge fireballs rocketing into the sky and caused debris to rain down on the US city’s Gessner Road area. It was so...
Patient Diagnosed With Coronavirus in Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS)– Illinois health officials announced the second confirmed case of Coronavirus in the U.S. was located in Chicago. Chicago has the 2nd confirmed case of Coronavirus in the US The patient is a woman in her 60s She had traveled to Wuhan...
Rapper Juice WRLD's cause of death revealed
Rapper and singer Juice WRLD died as a result of oxycodone and codeine toxicity, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday.The medical examiner determined the rapper's manner of death to be an accident. Remembering Juice WRLD, one o...
Bezos phone hack, UN wants answers on Saudi prince's alleged role
SAN FRANCISCO/CAIRO: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have been involved in a plot to hack the phone of Amazon’s billionaire boss Jeff Bezos, United Nations experts said on Wednesday. The U.N. special rapporteurs, Agnes Callamard and Dav...
Trump plans to add 7 new countries to US travel ban
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration plans to add seven countries to a group of nations subject to travel restrictions, including Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, along with others in Africa and Asia, according to administration officials ...
First Wuhan coronavirus case confirmed in United States
WASHINGTON/BEIJING: The United States announced its first case of a new virus that has claimed six lives in China and sickened hundreds, joining countries around the world in ramping up measures to block its spread. The man, a US resident in his 3...
Iranian attending college in Boston is denied entry to US
Boston: An Iranian student attending college in Boston was denied entry to the US and ordered to immediately fly back to his native country, despite a court order temporarily staying his removal, immigration lawyers and civil rights groups said Tu...
Trump rejects climate 'prophets of doom' as Thunberg warns Davos
Addressing an audience in Davos on Tuesday that included Swedish teenage campaigner Greta Thunberg, US President Donald Trump lashed out at climate change activists, describing them as "perennial prophets of doom". "We must reject the perennial pr...
Man arrested in San Antonio shooting that left 2 dead
San Antonio: Police Chief William McManus told reporters that someone opened fire about 9pm during a performance at Ventura, a music venue and bar in the River Walk, just north of downtown. McManus said police are searching for a suspect after som...