Virat Kohli holding the IPL trophy celebrates with RCB fans. (Video grab) NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli’s 18-year wait for Indian Premier League glory finally ended on Tuesday night, as Royal Challengers Bengaluru clinched their maiden title by defeating Punjab Kings in a thrilling final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.Go Beyond The Boundary with…
The Justice Department on Thursday accused three of the nation’s largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks over several years to insurance brokers that steered people into private Medicare plans. Federal prosecutors also accused two of the insurers of colluding with brokers to discriminate against people with disabilities, by…
As Ukraine contends with a war raging on its eastern front and Russian attacks on its cities, one lawmaker is working on something that he says could help the nation: legalizing pornography. Yaroslav Zhelezniak, deputy chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament’s finance committee, is leading a push to ditch what he sees as outdated Soviet-era legislation…
At the end of a three-hour hearing last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, sided with a group of Republicans in a hotly contested debate. He voted to advance the GENIUS Act, a bill backed by the cryptocurrency industry. “It’s clear that digital assets are here to stay,” Mr. Gallego said after the Senate…
By Patrick Mooney, Ken Rosenthal and Sahadev Sharma CHICAGO — At first glance, the post from an X user named @Brooks_Gate seemed like something a multibillion-dollar company would ignore. It consisted of a chart that used estimated data to illustrate the percentage of revenue spent on player payroll. Rather than sitting at the top with…
Michael Astorino recently walked into his favorite campus smoothie shop with two things in mind: an order and an offer. He cued up his laptop and gave the owner a pitch deck presentation, which was meant to benefit his Wesleyan University basketball teammates while also helping drum up business for the store. The deal: If…
What began as an eight-day mission for NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore has transformed into an eight-month journey aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force on June 5 of last year, the duo has remained in orbit due to technical difficulties with their spacecraft. Over time, questions…
The median American household has a combined balance of $10,000 in its checking and savings accounts, according to a census estimate. For the last few years, anyone keeping this amount in a high-yield savings account has earned close to 4 percent annual interest, or about $400 a year. But the average savings account interest rate…
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It’s a scene inside the Lemerand Center on an unfairly cold Wednesday night in early January. A junior college men’s basketball game is happening in a 1,000-seat gym. Everyone is here for that, including two players who were never supposed to be. But play has been paused. Security is defusing an altercation…
NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar found himself in an awkward moment during a solemn tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on Martyrs’ Day when he suddenly began clapping after paying his respects. The incident, which took place at Gandhi Maidan in Patna, was caught on camera and has since gone viral on social media.Nitish Kumar,…