As a maker of prosthetic eyes, Christina Leitzel was told as an apprentice to treat her craft much as an expert art forger would: create a perfect match of one of nature’s most intricate canvases. But just as there are many ways to lose an eye — to cancer or to a fall; to a…
Kashmir is many things. It is a disputed borderland that India and Pakistan have fought over for more than three-quarters of a century, making it one of the world’s most strife-torn and militarized zones. It is a Bollywood cinematographer’s alpine dream, its fabled beauty and trauma providing grist for tales of love, longing and war….
Fatty liver disease can lead to cirrhosis and cancer 3dMediSphere/Shutterstock A popular drug for treating obesity and diabetes is now showing benefits in fighting a deadly liver disease. Semaglutide, marketed under names including Ozempic and Wegovy, aids weight loss and blood sugar regulation by mimicking a natural hormone, GLP-1, which curbs the appetite and triggers…
A federal district court judge found that Apple willfully violated a court order in Epic Games vs. Apple antitrust case.Read More
Rudy Gobert had playoff career highs with 27 points and 24 rebounds, Julius Randle added 23 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves advanced in the NBA playoffs with a 103-96 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5 of their first-round series Wednesday night. Anthony Edwards had 15 points and 11 rebounds for the sixth-seeded…
In the wake of the devastating terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir, on April 22, 2025, which claimed 26 lives, several prominent Pakistani artists have reportedly faced restrictions on their Instagram accounts in India. Celebrities including Hania Aamir, Sajal Ali, Mahira Khan, Sanam Saeed, Iqra Aziz, Ali Zafar, Sarah Khan, and Imran Abbas, known…
The growing list of major economies warning of weaker growth because of U.S. tariffs has a new member. The Bank of Japan said on Thursday that it expects the Japanese economy to grow 0.5 percent in the fiscal year that started on April 1. That is a sharp downgrade from the 1.1 percent the central…
Fifty years ago, my father, an American war reporter, climbed over the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and scrambled onto a chopper that took off from a roof in the mission. “My last view of Saigon was through the tail door of the helicopter,” he wrote in the Chicago Daily News. “Then the…
Tennis star Coco Gauff faced a minor accident at the Madrid Open alongside her doubles partner Robin Montgomery. On Tuesday, the duo faced off against Viktoria Azarenka and Ashlyn Krueger in the women's doubles quarterfinals. However, amid the intense showdown between the two pairs, the 21-year-old Georgia native found herself on the wrong end of a…
Sounding a lot like a candidate for something, Kamala Harris returned to her old stomping ground of San Francisco tonight to warn Americans the apparent chaos of Donald Trump‘s Project 2025 fueled agenda is a ruse to distract from the long-lasting wounds being inflicting on the body politic, civil society and the Constitution. “Instead of…
