News
-
Hyderabad court jails 3 people for public nuisance offences
Hyderabad: A city court on Wednesday, March 11, sentenced three people to two days’ imprisonment each in separate public nuisance cases filed by the Kulsumpura police, officials said. The IV Special Judicial Magistrate at Manoranjan Complex, Nampally, delivered judgments in two cases registered by the Kulsumpura Police Station under the City Police Act. In the first case, Mohammed Ibrahim, 22, and…
Read More » -
What the latest government shutdown shows about privatizing TSA
Long security lines snaked into baggage claim areas and parking garages at some U.S. airports this weekend, a possible indicator of more widespread travel problems as the latest government shutdown drags on. That kind of disruption, while not yet widespread, is not a concern that typically surfaces at San Francisco International Airport, the largest of nearly two dozen U.S. airports…
Read More » -
Hospital and insurer consolidation: Is bigger better for consumers?
UnitedHealthcare corporate headquarters in Minnetonka, Minn. in 2024. Photo by Chad Davis (CC BY 2.0) Over the past 30 years, consolidation of health care systems in the United States has accelerated through mergers and acquisitions, researchers reported last year in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. After reviewing 34 years worth of studies (1990 to 2024), researchers found…
Read More » -
Iran war tests US ability to combat cheap attack drones
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iran war quickly tested America’s ability to combat the swarms of cheap drones that have become a staple of the modern battlefield after Ukraine and Russia demonstrated how effective they could be. The Islamic Republic launched so many drones across the region at once that some slipped through the defenses, including a strike that killed six…
Read More » -
Werner Herzog on His Movies and Docs, Including ‘Ghost Elephants’
Dreams took hold of Werner Herzog early in his life. Because that’s all he had. Born in Munich just before the Allies bombed it during World War II, Herzog and his family fled to a remote village in Bavaria and lived there in poverty for most of his childhood. With no telephone, no running water, and definitely no television, the…
Read More » -
Gunman attempts to shoot dead Farooq Abdullah in Jammu, held
Jammu: An attempt to assassinate National Conference president and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah was foiled on Wednesday night, March 11, when his security personnel overpowered a gunman outside a marriage venue in Jammu’s upscale Greater Kailash locality, on the outskirts of the city. The accused, identified as Kamal Singh Jamwal, son of Ajit Singh, a resident of…
Read More » -
Hidden toxins in ‘natural’ remedies linked to severe liver failure: Study
A large study from India has found that many alternative and complementary medicines consumed by patients who later developed liver damage were contaminated with toxic heavy metals, undisclosed pharmaceutical drugs and other hidden ingredients—sometimes in dangerous amounts. The research, which analysed hundreds of products collected from patients treated at a liver centre in Kerala, suggests that the health risks linked…
Read More » -
Trump issues blunt message to Senate majority leader to pass voter ID legislation – US politics live | Trump administration
Trump issues blunt message to Senate majority leader to pass voter ID legislation As John Thune battles conservative blowback for refusing to alter Senate rules and mandate a traditional “talking” filibuster that would force Democrats to hold the floor to block the Save America Act, Donald Trump had a blunt message for the Senate majority leader. “He’s got to be…
Read More » -
A Bad Case of COVID or Flu May Raise Lung Cancer Risk Years Later
Severe cases of COVID-19 or the flu may leave a lasting mark on the lungs that increases the risk of lung cancer later. Credit: Stock Severe COVID or flu may quietly raise lung cancer risk—but vaccines appear to stop the damage before it starts. New research from UVA Health’s Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research and the UVA Comprehensive…
Read More » -
White House war promo videos marry action movies, sports and video games to real-life combat footage
FILE – Archbishop Blase Cupich acknowledges after the retiring Cardinal Francis George presents the crozier the during his Installation Mass at Holy Name Cathedral, Nov. 18, 2014, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, Pool, File) FILE – Ben Stiller accepts the awards for best comedy for “Tropic Thunder” at the 14th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards, Thursday Jan. 8, 2009, in…
Read More »