Four Indian American college professors have been awarded prestigious 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships as part of the 100th class of recipients, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced. They are among 198 fellows selected this year from nearly 3,500 applicants across 53 fields of study. The Indian American recipients—Swarat Chaudhuri, Saurabh Jha, Tulasi Srinivas, and Bijal…
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is investigating claims from former American employees of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT firm. The workers allege they were unfairly laid off due to their age, race, and national origin. According to Bloomberg, several workers involved in the investigation are over 40 and not of South…
Emily Moen, a coffee shop manager in Omaha, was scrolling through TikTok earlier this week when she came across a video informing her that President Trump’s tariffs could lead to higher prices for essential baby products. Ms. Moen, who is 15 weeks pregnant, said that she had not planned to buy a car seat soon….
Kimbal Musk, younger brother of tech billionaire Elon Musk, took to X to criticize President Donald Trump’s tariff policies. He described them as a “structural, permanent tax on the American consumer” and argued that Trump is becoming “the most high-tax American president in generations.” Kimbal Musk is an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for…
‘As a business owner, you don’t make money right away, right?’ Hamid Chaudhry, 53, from Reading, Pa. “I live in Trump country,” Hamid Chaudhry said. “Nobody is panicking.” The owner of a farmer’s market, he said he has taken a 25 percent cut in profits over the past year because of the rising costs of…
It’s not just the high price of eggs or the rising cost of housing that is contributing to Americans’ unhappiness over the cost of living. Health care remains stubbornly unaffordable for millions of people, according to a new survey released Wednesday that underscores the struggle many people have in paying for a doctor’s visit or…
Follow the latest news on the Trump administration. President Trump’s sweeping tariffs are expected to raise the cost of cars, electronics, metals, lumber, pharmaceuticals and other products that American consumers and businesses buy from overseas. But Mr. Trump and his advisers are betting that it can sell an inflation-weary public on a provocative idea: Cheap…
For eight decades, Henri Mignon has viewed Americans as heroes. They twice liberated his tiny Belgian hometown, Houffalize, from German occupation — the second time, he said, when he was 8 years old, mere hours after shrapnel from shelling had killed his father. The image of U.S. troops handing out gum to local children is…
Americans are making too many solo dinner reservations. That was one takeaway from the annual World Happiness Report, which was released on Thursday and showed that the United States had dipped to its lowest slot in the country rankings — 24th — after being ranked as high as 11th in 2012, the first year of…
Kuwait has released a group of American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors jailed for years on drug-related charges, in a move seen as a gesture of goodwill between two allies, a representative for the detainees told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The release follows a recent visit to the region by Adam Boehler, the…