Author: Bijoy Daniel

Business groups, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to contest its decision to ban noncompete agreements. On Tuesday, the FTC voted 3-2 to approve the rule prohibiting new noncompete agreements. The rule also mandates that employers invalidate existing noncompete agreements and inform current and former employees that they will not be…

Columbia University said on Wednesday that it has extended discussions with pro-Palestinian demonstrators to remove their camps on the school's lawn before taking further action against them.  The initial deadline for protesters to leave was Tuesday at midnight, or else the police might have intervened to dismantle the camp. However, due to…

The US Senate on Tuesday approved legislation requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who became a fugitive after a federal jury convicted him of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison. David Joseph Gietzen, 31, of Sanford, North Carolina, struck a police officer with a pole during a…

New research highlights how trans people’s bodies differ from cis people’s.

An advertisement describes one of his Republican opponents as a money-hungry liberal.

China has established a new force of the People’s Liberation Army, with the reorganization to have repercussions for how its space forces are commanded. 

Beware of buying the popular ‘Labubu’ toys from unverified online stores, as a number of scams have been reported this week. The popular Labubu “macaron” version is…

A pro-Palestinian protest broke out at New York University on Monday, prompting arrests by New York police as protests take over college campuses across the country. The New York Police Department responded Monday night to NYU’s campus at the request of school administrators after protestors set up an encampment earlier in the day, a police…

While you still can’t watch the trial of former President Donald Trump, you can now read daily transcripts of the historic hush money proceedings, the New York Court System announced Monday.