Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday introduced a bill proposing the establishment of a standard four-day workweek in the United States, without any accompanying reduction in pay. The bill proposes to decrease the threshold for eligibility for overtime pay from 40 hours to 32 hours over a span of four years. It mandates that overtime … Read more
TikTok executives were reportedly convinced that the US had abandoned its plan to ban the Chinese-owned app after President Joe Biden joined, only to find out that wasn’t the case. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, the Biden campaign’s decision to join the app in late February and post several videos provided … Read more
Washington — A polio survivor known as the “man in the iron lung” has died aged 78, according to his family and a fundraising website. Paul Alexander of Dallas, Texas contracted polio at the age of six, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down and reliant on a mechanical respirator to breathe for much of … Read more
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to approve legislation Wednesday that would force the popular TikTok video app to either separate from its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance or sell the U.S. version of the software. The bipartisan Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act “gives TikTok six months to eliminate foreign … Read more
Cape Canaveral, Florida — Four astronauts from four countries caught a lift back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to end a half-year mission at the International Space Station. Their capsule streaked across the U.S. in the predawn darkness and splashed into the Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Panhandle. NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, a Marine … Read more
New York — Six years ago, Nachiket Chanchani visited Angkor Wat for the first time. Inspired, the architectural historian began thinking about the relationship between the complexities of modern post-genocide Cambodia and the ancient temple complex. Chanchani, an associate art history professor at the University of Michigan, kept reflecting on Angkor Wat, juxtaposing the temple … Read more
A ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, a company that processes 15 billion health care transactions annually and deals with 1 in 3 patient records in the United States, is continuing to cause massive disruptions nearly three weeks later. The hack shut down the system for processing claims, billing and verifying patients’ eligibility for receiving care. … Read more
The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very long time: Hand its top award to a blockbuster. After years of favoring smaller movies such as “The Shape of Water” and “Nomadland,” the clear best-picture favorite “Oppenheimer” — with just shy of $1 billion in tickets sold — … Read more
Umrao Jaan Ada: The Westend Musical, featuring Neetu Chandra as Umrao Jaan, is set to have its premiere in Ahmedabad, India. The show is going to be one of a kind as for the first time in India’s history, the play Umrao Jaan Ada: The Westend Musical will be performed live on an open-air stage. … Read more
washington — A Pentagon study released Friday that examined reported sightings of UFOs over nearly the last century found no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence, a conclusion consistent with past U.S. government efforts to assess the accuracy of claims that have captivated public attention for decades. The study from the Defense Department’s All-Domain Anomaly … Read more
