WASHINGTON — The Senate met briefly on Saturday to send a bill to President Biden reviving key transportation programs that had lapsed two days earlier and bringing back nearly 4,000 furloughed workers. The rare weekend session was necessary because Congress did not address expiring transportation programs when it passed legislation on Thursday to avert a […]
Pearl Tytell, the matriarch of a family of questioned-document examiners whose intricate knowledge of paper, ink, handwriting and typewriters made her a prominent investigator of frauds, forgeries, tax evasion and poison-pen letters, died on Sept. 26 at her home in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx. She was 104. Her death was confirmed by her […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden said on Saturday (Oct 2) he was going to “work like hell” to get both an infrastructure Bill and a multi-trillion-dollar social spending Bill passed through Congress and plans to travel more to bolster support with Americans. Biden visited the Capitol on Friday to try to end a […]
Nearly 40 million of people around the world are enslaved today, and the largest number live in India. There, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, rock quarry miners fought landowners who had held their families in bondage for generations. They liberated themselves in July 2000 and began running their own quarries. It was this […]
Marcia Freedman, who was the first American-born woman to serve in the Israeli Parliament, known as the Knesset, and who helped lead the feminist movement in Israel in the 1970s, died on Sept. 21 at her home in South Berkeley, Calif. She was 83. She had been diagnosed with renal and heart disease, her daughter, […]
Edha Gupta and Christina Ellis, two high school seniors in York County, Pa., were furious when they read last month in a local paper that their teachers had been effectively banned from using hundreds of books, documentary films and articles in their classrooms. The list, which was created in 2020 by a diversity committee in […]
Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old blogger whose body was found in a US national park, told police about a domestic dispute with her boyfriend the month before she disappeared. Ms Petito was found dead in Wyoming on 18 September and police are investigating her death as a homicide. Her boyfriend Brian Laundrie, 23, was charged last […]
MIAMI (BLOOMBERG) – Former United States President Donald Trump asked a federal judge to force Twitter to temporarily reinstate his account while he sues to permanently return to the social media network he once used to communicate with millions of supporters. Mr Trump’s request for a preliminary injunction against Twitter was filed late Friday (Sept […]
For about two months, the man who stayed in Room 113 at the Mid City Inn in Euless, Texas, would sit outside, reading the Bible and encouraging others to come to church with him, according to a manager of the motel, Kanti Gandhi. “He was a fanatic about the Bible,” Mr. Gandhi said, recalling how […]
In a battle between man and squirrel, the odds would be on a human winning – but one red squirrel just isn’t giving up. For eight years, Bill Fischer has had been trying to stop a red squirrel from filling his pick-up truck with walnuts. Every Autumn the persistent rodent stashes hundreds of nuts in the engine compartment, wheel arches, behind the bumper and in the […]