Claudia Bergnaum 
BOSTON — Haseena Niazi had pinned her hopes of getting her fiancé out of Afghanistan on a rarely used immigration provision. The 24-year-old Massachusetts resident was almost certain his application for humanitarian parole would get approved by the U.S. government, considering the evidence he provided on the threats from the Taliban he received while working on … Read more
If 2020 was the year of the late-night bathtub and garage specials, the last twelve months saw somewhat of a return to normal for the entertainers making linear viewers laugh on a nightly basis. With all of the late-night hosts returned to the studio – albeit some such as Trevor Noah, Samantha Bee and Desus … Read more
Credit: RUVID An international scientific group with outstanding Valencian participation has managed to measure for the first time oscillations in the brightness of a neutron star – magnetar – during its most violent moments. In just a tenth of a second, the magnetar released energy equivalent to that produced by the Sun in 100,000 years. … Read more
Shares of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. TEVA, -5.10% sank 4.6% in afternoon trading Thursday, reversing an earlier gain of as much as 3.1%, after New York Attorney General Letitia James said a jury found that the drug maker’s subsidiary Teva Pharmaceuticals USA and violated rights of New Yorkers, as a contributor to the opioid crisis. … Read more
Neil Patrick Harris received an interesting Christmas gift. (Photo: Elton John AIDS Foundation/Getty Images for the Elton John AIDS Foundation) Neil Patrick Harris on Thursday offered a peek at an “awesome” gift he received this year: stuffed replicas of his three family dogs. Unusual, right? The Matrix Resurrections actor shared a photo of the product … Read more
People line up in the rain for COVID-19 testing in the parking lot of Long Beach City College on Wednesday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is sweeping across California and the nation with unprecedented speed. Consider: Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday that the … Read more
The Packers got a pair of wide receivers back on the practice field Thursday. Reporters at the open session of practice in Green Bay noted that Randall Cobb and Marquez Valdes-Scantling were both working with the team. Cobb has been out since Week 12 after having core muscle surgery. He returned to the Packers in … Read more
Bill de Blasio’s come-from-behind victory in the 2013 mayoral race gave New York City its first progressive leader in generations — and unleashed eight years of controversy and turbulence that led voters to change course and choose successor Eric Adams, a former NYPD captain who ran on a pro-business, law-and-order platform. De Blasio, who was … Read more
A Republican Rhode Island state representative is facing backlash from both parties this week after tweeting that she and a black friend of hers had fallen out over critical race theory. “I had a black friend. I liked her and I think she liked me, too,” Rep. Patricia Morgan wrote Tuesday. “But now she is … Read more
Congress is in recess for the holidays — but Nancy Pelosi has kept busy playing the market. The Democratic majority leader and her husband, Paul Pelosi, recently bought millions of dollars worth of call options for stocks including Google, Salesforce, Roblox and Disney, financial disclosures published Thursday show. The purchases occurred from Dec. 17 to … Read more