Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer TimesofIndia.com in Mullanpur: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Punjab Kings (PBKS) have been perennial underachievers in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL). At the start of the season, no one gave them a chance to finish in the top four, but at the end of the league stage,…
St. Louis has been battered by two tornadoes in the past two months. A fire shut down a new nursing home last month in Enterprise, Ala., forcing residents to evacuate. Cleveland grappled with a power outage while inundated with visitors for the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball Final Four. In each case, local health officials played a…
There was little rest on Wall Street this weekend. There was plenty of anger, anxiety, frustration, and fear. Anger at President Trump for a brash and chaotic rollout of tariffs that erased trillions of dollars in value from the stock market in two days. Anxiety about the state of the private equity industry and other…
Follow live updates on the Trump administration here. Buried in China’s latest government budget were some numbers that add up to an alarming trend. Tax revenue is dropping. The decline means that China’s national government has less money to address the country’s serious economic challenges, including a housing market crash and the near bankruptcy of…
The newly appointed head of one of the nation’s top housing regulators tightened his grip on the agency with a major board shake-up on Monday at two government-controlled mortgage finance firms. William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, ousted 14 board members at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and named himself chairman…
Labor Department braces for 90% workforce cuts as DOGE’s layoffs expand. (Representative Image) The US federal government is preparing for a sweeping round of job cuts that could impact thousands of federal workers, particularly within the Labor Department. As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy, the Department of Labor…
Fresh off the worst inflation shock in decades, Americans are once again bracing for higher prices. Expectations about future inflation have started to move up, according to metrics closely watched by officials at the Federal Reserve. So far, the data, including a consumer survey from the University of Michigan and market-based measures of investors’ expectations,…
The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected on December 27, 2023, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. A massive asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, has captured global attention as both Nasa and China scramble to assess and counter the looming threat. With a 1 in 38 chance of impact in 2032, scientists warn that…
NIH threatens funding cuts that could cripple Harvard’s vital research infrastructure. (Getty Images) Harvard researchers brace for impact as NIH threatens to cut crucial funding for shared labs, oversightHarvard University researchers are on edge as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has threatened to cut substantial federal support for overhead costs, a move that could…
The thousands of people who work for the U.S. government’s main agency for humanitarian aid and disaster relief have been on the front lines of efforts to fight famine, contain virulent infectious diseases like H.I.V. and Ebola, and rebuild infrastructure in impoverished and war-torn countries. On Friday evening, just hours before the vast majority of…