JD Vance’s new H-1B warning to corporate America. Vice President JD Vance doubled down on White House’s recent action against H-1B visa abuse and put out a message to corporate America: “We’re not going to let you lay off American workers so you can replace them with cheap foreign labor.” The message was linked to…
A major property deal that began more than a century ago with a grieving widow turned a huge private wilderness in North Carolina into one of the most important public conservation achievements in American history. In May 1914, Edith Vanderbilt agreed to sell 86,700 acres of valuable mountain forest from the private Biltmore Estate to…
US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping TOI correspondent from Washington: Implicitly suggesting that China is catching up with the United States if it hasn’t already, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Americans on Thursday that the two countries can avoid the historic conflict that often accompanies the rise of a new power, declaring…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House, formally beginning Xi’s second state visit to the United States.Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greeted Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, as a military band played. Xi arrived in a black Hongqi N701 SUV, the Chinese equivalent of the…
A massive skyscraper rising in Midtown Manhattan has turned tens of millions of used waste bottles into part of its structural support. The project shows how city waste can replace carbon-heavy building materials on a large commercial scale. Workers used special concrete containing ground recycled glass in the foundation and floor slabs of JPMorgan Chase’s…
Natalie Flaherty, a 12-year-old from Minnesota who distributed over 100,000 anti-hate bracelets, is one of this year’s Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes winners. The tween won the $10,000 award for her global initiative, ‘I Stand with Anne’, which aims to transform Holocaust remembrance into daily action. The bracelets she made read, “I Stand With…
Silicon Valley opposes Trump administration’s $103K H-1B fee proposal. TechNet, an industry association representing major US technology companies, has urged the Trump administration to withdraw a proposed $103,265 fee on certain new H-1B visa petitions, saying the measure could make it harder for US companies to recruit highly skilled workers, Wall Street Journal reported. The…
Neria Leiter, son of Israel’s US ambassador Yechiel Leiter, was seriously injured in a ramming attack in the West Bank on Wednesday.Neria, a reservist in the Israeli military, “needs a miracle,” his father said in a social media post. The ambassador’s older son, Moshe Yedidya Leiter, who also served in the military, was killed in…
Users began reporting delayed transfers of donations as early as late 2024 An Oakland-based donation platform collapsed after thousands of nonprofits said they were left waiting for donations that had been collected for their organisations. Flipcause filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2025, listing nearly $29 million owed to more than 3,200 organisations across…
The new setup can pump groundwater seven days a week, without relying on electricity from the grid or a generator. That has allowed the cleanup operation to run more consistently while increasing the volume of water that can be removed from the affected area. A small shift in how groundwater is collected is making a…
