Kapil Jain’s father did not want his sons to become farmers. “My father had seen the hardships that farmers go through, so we all studied and moved to the city to pursue a profession,” he says. But Mr Jain grew tired of city life and in 2018 returned to the family farm, near Kota, Rajasthan,… Read More »
One of the most closely watched fraud trials of recent years is about to begin in New York. In the dock is Sam Bankman-Fried, who once owned a $32 billion business and seemed to have the world at his feet. The 31-year-old was a scruffy-looking genius guy who had A-list listeners lining up to support… Read More »
Oct. 3 — CLARK COUNTY — Guilty on all counts. That was the verdict of a Clark County jury in the murder trial of Mac Lewis, who was convicted Tuesday afternoon of killing his wife, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennett Lewis, on April 1, 2022, in Sellersburg. The verdict was read in a crowded Clark Circuit Court… Read More »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said this week that her administration is terminating state land leases that for years have given a Saudi-owned farm nearly unfettered access to pump groundwater into the arid southwestern state. On Monday, Hobbs, a Democrat, said the state canceled Fondomonte Arizona’s lease in Butler Valley in western Arizona… Read More »
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California ended its “miracle” water year Saturday with enough rain and snow to fill the state’s reservoirs to 128% of their historical average, making it among the wettest years in recorded history of the state. That’s a welcome boon for a state that has spent much of the past dozen years… Read More »
Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to federal firearms charges Tuesday, less than three months after an earlier plea agreement he reached with prosecutors on tax and weapons charges fell apart. Appearing inside U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Del., Biden was arraigned on three criminal charges: two related to false statements he allegedly made during the… Read More »
Hunter Biden is expected to plead not guilty Tuesday to federal firearms charges in Delaware, after a plea deal on an earlier round of tax and weapons charges fell through in July. Biden, who lives in Los Angeles, had asked to hold the hearing via videoconference. But Justice Department special counsel David Weiss insisted on… Read More »
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the use of a low-cost malaria vaccine that can be produced on a large scale. The vaccine was developed by the University of Oxford and is only the second malaria vaccine to be developed. Malaria kills mostly infants and children and has been one of humanity’s greatest plagues.… Read More »
Former President Donald Trump attacked a judge and a prosecutor in a dramatic day in the courtroom as he attended the opening of a fraud trial that could threaten his business empire. Entering the room Monday dressed in a blue suit, Trump — who showed up voluntarily — stared ahead as he passed the prosecutor… Read More »
When Ron DeSantis appeared to say during last week’s Republican presidential debate that he would support a federal ban on abortion at the 15th week of pregnancy, some anti-abortion activists called it the news they had been waiting months to hear. The president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a major abortion advocacy group, released… Read More »
