Striding into history, Hillary Clinton will become the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major U.S. political party, capturing commitments on Monday from the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination. Ms. Clinton’s rise to presumptive nominee arrived nearly eight years to the day after she conceded her first White House campaign to Barack Obama. […]
» Read morePakistan is in negotiations with Russia for buying its MI-35 attack helicopters and a deal could be clinched within two months, minister for defence production Rana Tanveer Hussain has said. “I hope we will be able to materialize this project (to buy MI-35 helicopters) in two months,” he said. Pakistan and Russia had signed a deal regarding the sale of four […]
» Read moreIndian companies, according to Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, will have to pay an additional fees of $4,000 for certain H1B and $4,500 for L-1 petitioners, details published on Friday by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said. The law, signed by U.S. President Barack Obama in December 2015, increased fees for certain H1B and L-1 petitioners, USCIS said in […]
» Read moreThe words were tougher. The final rounds lasted longer. The result was the same. The Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a tie for the third consecutive year on Thursday night, with Jairam Hathwar and Nihar Janga declared co-champions after a roller-coaster finish. Thirteen-year-old Jairam is the younger brother of the 2014 co-champion, Sriram Hathwar. Nihar, at age 11, is the […]
» Read moreFor the second time in three months, a St. Louis jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a huge award over claims that its talcum powder causes cancer. The jury deliberated eight hours on Monday before ordering the company to pay $ 55 million to a South Dakota woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on years of talcum powder […]
» Read moreEdward Mackowiak died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, but it is not clear what led him to take his own life. The 25-year-old was a software engineer based at Apple’s Silicon Valley campus according to his LinkedIn profile, which was recently taken down. After Mr Mackowiak’s body was found […]
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