Most Americans don’t agree with Donald Trump: Kal Penn
New Delhi (IANS): Indian-American actor Kal Penn, who served in the Barack Obama administration, feels most Americans don’t agree with Republicans’ presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s racist views. “I...
View ArticleSanders beats Clinton in West Virginia primary
Washington (IANS): Democrat hopeful Bernie Sanders won the West Virginia state primary on Tuesday night against front-runner Hillary Clinton. The win comes one week after the Vermont senator prevailed...
View ArticleFlorida man sentenced for threatening to firebomb two mosques and shoot...
THE U.S. Justice Department announced on Monday that Martin Alan Schnitzler, 43, was sentenced to one year and a day in prison for calling two mosques in Pinellas County, Florida, and threatening to...
View ArticleU.S. Congressman Ami Bera’s father, Babulal Bera, pleads guilty to making...
U.S. Congressman Ami Bera Photo: Twitter SACRAMENTO, California: Babulal Bera, 83, of La Palma, pleaded guilty this week to making excessive campaign contributions and making campaign contributions in...
View ArticleBrazil’s acting president was US intelligence informant
Sao Paolo (IANS): Brazil’s new interim president, Michel Temer, was an embassy informant for US intelligence, WikiLeaks on Friday revealed. A cable published by the whistleblowing website shows a...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to pulling Muslim woman’s hijab off of religion on plane
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – Gill Parker Payne, 37, of Gastonia, North Carolina, pleaded guilty on May 13 in the District of New Mexico to one count of using force or threat of force to intentionally...
View ArticlePresident Obama is extending overtime pay to millions more Americans
EVERY week, millions of Americans work more than 40 hours but do not receive the overtime pay they have earned. President Barack Obama is taking action to fix that: In a note to signers of a We the...
View ArticleFahd Hamood Aljahaf and Muneer Kaid Khaled of New York sentenced in cigarette...
MARTINSBURG, West Virginia: Two individuals were sentenced in federal court in Martinsburg on Monday for their roles in an unlawful cigarette smuggling scheme, United States Attorney William J....
View ArticleU.S. President Barack Obama confirms Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad...
U.S. President Barack Obama has confirmed that Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was killed in an airstrike on Saturday in Pakistan. Obama, who is on a visit to Vietnam, said that...
View ArticleSouth Asians, others charged with marriage and visa immigration fraud in U.S.
JACKSON, Mississippi: United States Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr., of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations – New...
View ArticleClinton declines to debate Sanders ahead of California primary
Hillary ClintonPhoto: Twitter Washington (IANS): Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has declined an invitation to debate rival Bernie Sanders ahead of the California primary. The...
View ArticleAtif Rafay of North Vancouver – who murdered his parents and disabled sister...
BY RATTAN MALL Atif Rafay at Monroe’s state prison.Photos courtesy KOMO News JUST when you had forgotten about the brutal Lower Mainland killers, Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns, who murdered...
View ArticleTrump wins Washington state Republican primary
(IANS): Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday night won the Washington state primary. According to projections by major US media, Trump won in the northwestern...
View ArticleIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit U.S. June 7-8
Narendra Modi and Barack Obama INDIA’S Extrenal Affairs Ministry has announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Washington, D.C., June7-8 at the invitation of U.S. President Barack Obama....
View ArticleIndian-Americans dominate Scripps National Spelling Bee
NIHAR Saireddy Janga, 11, of Austin, Texas, and Jairam Jagadeesh Hathwar, 13, of Painted Post, New York, were declared co-champions at the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor,...
View ArticleExtortion email schemes tied to recent high-profile data breaches, says FBI
THE Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continues to receive reports from individuals who have received extortion attempts via e-mail related to recent high-profile data thefts, says the FBI. The...
View ArticleChicago Sikh Americans participate in Memorial Day parades and ceremonies
? ? ? CHICAGO: Sikh American community members of Chicago participated in the 146th Chicago Memorial Day Parade on May 28 with a float, flags, posters, banners and a walking unit to honor and...
View ArticleFormer doctoral student Mainak Sarkar shot dead his wife before killing UCLA...
Mainak SarkarPhoto: Facebook Los Angeles (IANS): Indian-American Mainak Sarkar had killed his wife in Minnesota before driving over 3,000 km to the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) where...
View ArticleUS embassy opens north India office
New Delhi (IANS): To cater to the 355 million people living in north Indian states, the US embassy on Friday announced the creation of a North India Office. “For the embassy’s work in northern states —...
View ArticleLegendary boxer Muhammad Ali dies at 74
“I love this photo of my father and my daughter Sydney when she was a baby!” – Laila Ali on her Facebook MUHAMMAD Ali, the legendary boxer who proclaimed himself “The Greatest,” died Friday in Phoenix,...
View Article