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Senator Joe Manchin, the conservative West Virginia Democrat, has thrown cold water on plans to send $2,000 checks to many American househol...

Uganda has blocked access to social media platforms in the East African country just two days before Jan.14’s presidential and parliamentary...

Detroit will finally build those flying cars we were promised.On Jan. 12, the electric aviation company Archer announced it is partnering wi...

In the 1930s and 1940s, the film studio MGM pumped out 50 new movies a year, most of which featured the world’s biggest stars at the time: J...

In the hours following the deadly Jan. 6 ambush of the US Capitol building, Twitter and Facebook both temporarily blocked US president Dona...

US federal authorities are seeking help identifying a suspect in connection with pipe bombs found at the Republican and Democratic national...

The last time US greenhouse gas emissions were this low, George H.W. Bush was in the White House and Ghost and Pretty Woman were at the top...

A week into the new year, the market value of all the world’s cryptocurrencies surpassed $1 trillion. The record came at the end of a superc...

In a 2019 opinion piece published in the New York Times, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for a “new capitalism” and counseled business le...

A shadow is lurking over the trial process of India’s homegrown Covid-19 vaccine.Covaxin, the novel coronavirus vaccine co-developed by Bhar...

Can companies that violate human rights be held accountable? The answer, historically, has often been no. Despite many accusations and even...

Angela Merkel is no fan of Donald Trump. She is, however, a fan of free speech. While much of the liberal world welcomes the news that the o...

Indian stock markets are so out of tune with the real economy that the country’s central bank is now anxious.On Jan. 11, the Reserve Bank of...

The American economy is slowly recovering, but Black and Hispanic women are being left behind.The latest data show the US unemployment rate...

Arguably the most important outcome of the  Covid-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna isn’t ending the pandemic. Instead, it’s what t...

The green screen has been a staple of film and TV sets for decades, dating back to The Thief of Baghdad in 1940. It served its purpose well...

It was an opportunity ripe for Vogue to create magic. The fashion bible, known for creating exceptional imagery, will feature Kamala Harris...

A top Japanese official muttered darkly last year about an Olympics “curse,” as it became ever clearer that the host of the Summer Olympics...

Control over the internet has once again taken center stage as Uganda heads to the polls on Jan. 14. with technology giants including Facebo...

It’s a miracle of modern medicine that scientists were able to develop multiple successful vaccines against Covid-19, a disease that wasn’t...

With less than two weeks left in office, the Donald Trump administration dealt another blow to H-1B aspirants.The US Citizenship and Immigra...

We know that the vaccines now available across the world will protect their recipients from getting sick with Covid-19. But while each vacci...

In 1950, when cartoonist Charles Schultz created the comic strip Peanuts, Snoopy, the pet beagle of lead character Charlie Brown, lived in a...

Bark doesn’t do paw prints. No bone or fire hydrant designs, either. Instead, the 1.1 million pet owners who partake in the company’s monthl...

As pets have come into our homes and into our hearts, the way we spend on them has evolved, too. Nowhere is that more visible than in what t...