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Apple CEO Tim Cook is fulfilling another Steve Jobs vision

Apple unveils a cheaper iPhone and pricing for streaming TV

2:40 am September 11, 2019

CUPERTINO, California: Apple unveiled new iPhones that are largely unchanged from previous models and accompanied by an unexpected price cut for the cheapest model, underscoring the company’s efforts to counteract a sales slump of its flagship product. The company’s new models are so similar to last year’s lineup they may be upstaged by Apple TV […]

President Donald Trump asked Australia for help discrediting Russia probe

Trump announces help for certain historically black colleges

2:30 am September 11, 2019

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has delivered some good news to the nation’s historically black colleges and universities. Trump announced Tuesday that the government will no longer restrict HBCUs that have a religious mission from accessing federal funding for capital projects. Trump says a recent Justice Department legal opinion declared such “discriminatory restrictions” to be unconstitutional. […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Large explosion heard near US Embassy in Kabul on 9/11 anniversary

2:02 am September 11, 2019

KABUL, Afghanistan: A large explosion has been heard in Afghanistan’s capital near the US Embassy shortly after midnight on the anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States. A plume of smoke rose early Wednesday over Kabul. An embassy employee reached by phone confirmed the blast but had no details. It would be the […]

NOAA chief thanks Alabama weather office in Hurricane Dorian forecast

8:34 pm September 10, 2019

Huntsville: The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is both defending the administration and thanking a local weather office that contradicted President Donald Trump’s claims about Hurricane Dorian threatening Alabama. Acting administrator Neil Jacobs told a meteorology group Tuesday that a NOAA statement which criticized a local forecast office that contradicted Trump […]

ISRO racing against time to salvage lander-rover part of Chandrayaan-2 mission

7:52 pm September 10, 2019

Bengaluru: ISRO is racing against time to spring ‘Vikram’ back to lifeand salvage the lander-rover part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission. The lander Vikram, with rover ‘Pragyan’ tucked inside it, lost communication with the ground-stations during its final descent, just 2.1 kms above the lunar surface, minutes before the planned soft-landing in the early hours of […]