Martha Lillard rests in her iron lung in Feb, in Shawnee, Oklahoma Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last US polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78.“They told her…
.DHS asks US employers to fire foreign employees who lost Temporary Protected Status. The Department of Homeland Security told US employers to fire all those foreign workers who are now losing their ‘Temporary Protected Status’. The direction came as the Supreme Court recently upheld the Donald Trump administration’s authority to end the TPS for Haiti…
Quote of the day by Dr Jill Biden on a good marriage. In 2019, the First Lady Jill Biden published one of her most memorable works — Where the Light Enters — a story of the Biden family. It’s a story of love, the tasks of marriage, and how she built the Biden family. The…
Quote of the day by Vivek Ramaswamy on family values and real privilege. In 2024, Vivek Ramaswamy redefined privilege in his book TRUTHS: The Future of America First as he expanded the concept of privilege from economic affluence to emotional abundance. By the time the book was published, the billionaire entrepreneur had left the presidential…
Most people judge a country by what it shows the world, its skylines, its universities, its economic growth. Nelson Mandela judged it by something almost nobody puts on a brochure. “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails,” he said. “A nation should not be judged…
Microsoft responds to the trolling of Asha Sharma after she announced Xbox layoffs. As Asha Sharm, the CEO of Xbox, came under vicious trolling after the gaming division of Microsoft announced the elimination of 3,200 positions, Microsoft came to her rescue and clarified that it had nothing to do with replacing Americans with foreign workers….
A former H-1B visa holder moves back to India and shares the empowering experience of being authorized to work in India. A Redditor who recently left the US and moved to India permanently shared a heartwarming experience of applying to an Indian company and not checking the box where the company asks whether the applicant…
US President Donald Trump (AP file photo) TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump threatened to unleash “1000 missiles” on Iran and “completely decimate and destroy” the country if Tehran attempts to assassinate him, dramatically raising the temperature in a confrontation that has, within days, descended from a tentative understanding into renewed military exchanges…
At least six people were killed and dozens injured after Russia launched a fresh wave of missile and drone attacks across Ukraine on Saturday, according to Ukrainian officials. Kyiv renewed its call for urgent deliveries of air defence systems, saying growing shortages of interceptor missiles had left it increasingly vulnerable to Russian strikes.The strikes hit…
Michigan health department issued advisory to thoroughly wash greens and remove the outer layer of lettuce in the wake of the virus outbreak. More than half US states have reported an outbreak of Cyclosporiasis, an infection caused by a microscopic parasite that is leading to explosive diarrhoea. Michigan is the worst affected, as the state…