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Indian man pleads guilty in telemarketing scam in US

8:16 pm September 16, 2020

Washington: An Indian national has pleaded guilty to the charges of participating in an India-based telemarketing scheme to try to embezzle about USD 600,000 from seven elderly people in America. Chirag Sachdeva, 30, has been held since he was arrested by FBI agents on February 16 as he got off a plane in Boston after a flight from India. He admitted […]

Police chief hit with federal charges of rigging his hiring

4:34 pm September 11, 2020

Bridgeport: The police chief of Connecticut’s largest city was arrested Thursday on federal charges that he teamed with Bridgeport’s personnel director to rig the hiring process to make sure he would get his job. Federal prosecutors in New York and FBI officials in Connecticut announced the arrest of Bridgeport Police Chief Armando “A.J.” Perez along with David Dunn, the city’s acting personnel director. […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump spins baseless tale of ‘thugs’ flying to protests

2:46 pm September 2, 2020

Chicago: President Donald Trump is recycling a baseless conspiracy theory to claim that recent protests have been orchestrated by powerful people in “dark shadows” intent on undermining his reelection prospects. The claims first took root on Facebook and Twitter earlier this year after racial justice protests swelled across the country following the deaths of Black Americans in […]

Syria says US forces clash with Syrian troops, killing 1

11:44 pm August 17, 2020

Damascus: US forces clashed with Syrian troops in the northeast on Monday, killing at least one soldier and wounding two others, state media said, while the US military said it responded to small arms fire near a Syrian checkpoint. Tensions have been rising in northeastern Syria in recent months as the Syrian military has cut off American access to several areas. […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

3 Mississippi police officers indicted in death of Black man

11:38 pm August 17, 2020

Jackson: Three Mississippi police officers have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Black man last year, according to a recently unsealed indictment. A Hinds County grand jury indicted the officers in the January 2019 death of George Robinson, 62, according to the August 5 indictment. It accuses the officers — Desmond Barney, Lincoln Lampley and Anthony Fox — with “willfully, unlawfully and […]