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What location is for real estate, timing is for politics. Under intense pressure from leaders of the Democratic Party, major donors and negative polls, President Biden finally withdrew as a candidate for re-election after long hesitation. On the Republican side, the Trump/Vance ticket continues its aggressive campaign after Donald Trump’s promising start at the Republican More

Dallas [Texas], July 26 (ANI): Washington Freedom registered an emphatic 7-wicket win over the San Francisco Unicorns in the Qualifier of the Major League Cricket (MLC) 2024 at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas on Thursday to reach the title clash. Rachin Ravindra's 4/11 helped the Washington Freedom bowl out the San Francisco Unicorns for 145 before chasing down their target in 16 overs, thanks to unbeaten knocks from Trav

Pallekele [Sri Lanka], July 26 (ANI): Ahead of the first T20I against Sri Lanka, India's newly-appointed T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav opened up on his relationship with head coach Gautam Gambhir, with who he played in Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) earlier in his career. India's tour of Sri Lanka begins with a T20I on Saturday and consists of three T20Is and three ODIs each. Gill will be t

Minnesota Vikings star Justin Jefferson may be the highest-paid receiver in NFL history, but that doesn't mean he's going to waste money on unnecessary real estate.

Saturday bank holiday: Do keep in mind that this is the last weekend before the income tax return filing due date of July 31, 2024 Bank customers must make sure that their bank related work is not hampered on these bank holiday days.

At the end of the last century, hoping to drive the United States from Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s holiest sites, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden sought to draw in the American military. He reportedly wanted to “bring the Americans into a fight on Muslim soil,” provoking savage asymmetric conflicts that would send home a More

This Sunday, July 28, Venezuelans will head to the polls in what has been framed as the opposition’s best chance to unseat President Nicolás Maduro, who has been in office since 2013. From the media coverage, one comes away with the impression of only two options: an opposition win, or massive pro-Maduro fraud. There are More

“You should get a one-year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag,” former (and possibly future) president Donald Trump told the hosts of Fox & Friends on July 25. In a rare moment of at least partial agreement with Trump, likely Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris says “I condemn the burning More

The memorial ceremony was attended by 89 people, including bereaved families, who offered a moment of silence for the victims and laid out flowers.

Fascination with twins and what twin studies tell us about human nature is universal. There is no question that behavioral and medical science advances have happened largely because twins yield a wealth of information just by being themselves. Twin research takes place at two levels: (1) Studies that are strictly for twins. Such studies examine the pros More

Vice President Kamala Harris vowed to "not be silent" about suffering in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war, saying she expressed her "serious concern" to Israeli Prime Minister...

A few years ago, China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry shook hands on a pledge to triple renewable energy by 2030. China took the challenge seriously, very seriously, it will meet its end-of-2030 emissions target this year (2014), six years early. In the blink of an eye, China is constructing More

Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be reinvigorating voters.

A new poll conducted in the wake of President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign found Harris, the new presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in a near-dead heat with former President Donald Trump. 

The New York Times and Siena College poll released on Thursday determined that if the election were held immediately, 47% of likely voters would pick Harris and 48% would go for Trump. 

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All roads led to Thaksin Shinawatra's family mansion in Bangkok on Friday as the convicted former prime minister celebrated his 75th birthday.

How billionaire elites help fund an Oxford statistics lab that makes the destruction of Earth look just great. Roughly a decade ago, a 30-year-old economic statistician at Oxford University named Max Roser set out to transform the way we see the world using datasets. As he later described his mission in a statement of purpose,he wanted to instill “trust in ourselves” More

Bill introduced in US Congress to strengthen partnership ties with India

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Following his death at age 89 on July 23 in Rome, Harper’s today compares its long-time editor and essayist Lewis H. Lapham to Montaigne, Twain, and Mencken, and quotes from him a truism as relevant as ever in these days of interminable praises for Biden farewell speeches and worse: “What so annoys people about the More

The Madison-Gallatin region in southwest Montana is part of one of the most intact, diverse and wildlife rich areas in the temperate zones of the Earth called the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. There are 94 mammal species in these two ranges including the omnivorous grizzly bear and black bear, bobcat, lynx, coyote, fisher, wolf, marten, mountain More

Americans should tolerate no president invoking “the will of the people” to sanctify his crimes. Since late 2020, President Joe Biden has invoked “the will of the people” dozens of times to sanctify his power, including arbitrary decrees that were illegal or unconstitutional. Biden’s invocations did not prevent his re-election campaign from being terminated behind More

Action has already got underway in preliminary competitions in sports like rugby sevens, archery and handball.

With bounties of several million dollars offered for their capture, Mexican drug lords Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of the infamous “El Chapo”, were at the top of the most wanted list for US authorities. The two leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel were arrested on Thursday after landing in Texas on a private plane. But as the cartel is one of the most powerful organised crime groups in Mexico, the power vacuum resulting from their arrests could trigger new bouts of violence.