The US will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care, the Biden administration announced. AP Photo WASHINGTON: The US will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care, the Biden administration announced Monday, reversing a Trump-era policy that sought to narrow the scope of legal rights in sensitive […]
Day: May 10, 2021
Lakers star LeBron James likely to return vs. Knicks on Tuesday
LeBron James will likely return for Tuesday’s game against the New York Knicks as his injured right ankle has been pain-free after several days off, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Monday. Lakers coach Frank Vogel said James was a full participant in practice Monday but did not officially reveal his status for Tuesday’s game. […]
US Defends Detention of Afghan at Guantánamo Despite Pullout
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department lawyer said in federal court on Monday that, even as the Pentagon is withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan, the United States has the authority to continue to detain a former Afghan militia member at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, because of his past association with members of Al Qaeda. “We remain at […]
US Pipeline Hackers Say Their Aim Is Cash, Not Chaos
The statement did not say how much money the hackers were seeking. Washington/San Francisco: The ransomware gang accused of crippling the leading US fuel pipeline operator said on Monday that it never meant to create havoc, an unusual statement that experts saw as a sign the cybercriminals’ scheme had gone awry. The FBI accused the […]
Helmut Jahn, ‘Convention-Busting’ Architect, Dies at 81
Helmut Jahn, a German-born architect who designed buildings around the world but was most influential in his adopted hometown, Chicago, where he conceived of an extravagant downtown home to state government and the United Airlines terminal at O’Hare International Airport, died on Saturday in a traffic accident near the horse farm where he lived, in […]
Vivo Will Push Three Years of Android OS and Security Updates for Upcoming Flagships
Vivo will push three years of Android OS and security updates on its flagship smartphones, the company announced today. The update cycle will come into force for smartphones launched after July 2021 in Europe, Australia, and India, the company said in a press release. “We are making a promise to our customers that they will […]
Jaylen Brown’s career-best season over due to wrist injury, Boston Celtics say
6:05 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Boston Celtics All-Star guard Jaylen Brown has a torn scapholunate ligament in his left wrist and will miss the remainder of the season, the team said Monday. Brown, who averaged a career-high 24.7 points on 48.4% shooting this season for Boston, was diagnosed with the injury over the weekend and […]
U.S. Defends Detention of Afghan at Guantánamo Despite Pullout
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department lawyer said in federal court on Monday that, even as the Pentagon is withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan, the United States has the authority to continue to detain a former Afghan militia member at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, because of his past association with members of Al Qaeda. “We remain at […]
UAE Bars Travellers from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal & Sri Lanka
Dubai International Airport. (Image source: Reuters) The surge has spilled into Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Pakistan is also struggling to contain a third wave of infections. The United Arab Emirates will from Wednesday suspend the entry of all travellers, including transit passengers, from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka amid the Covid pandemic. The […]
A new rule in California could help curb emissions at e-commerce warehouses.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District in Southern California on Friday adopted a rule that would force about 3,000 of the largest warehouses in the area to slash emissions from the trucks that serve the site or take other measures to improve air quality, The New York Times’s Hiroko Tabuchi reports. Southern California is […]