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Widow of Dave Fiji, an Indian-origin Delta pilot who died in a helicopter crash minutes after his wedding, filed a lawsuit against the helicopter company. Four months after Dave Fiji, an Indian-origin Delta pilot, lost his life in a helicopter crash minutes after his wedding, Jesni Sam, the Georgia bride who survived the crash, has…

A massive skyscraper rising in Midtown Manhattan has turned tens of millions of used waste bottles into part of its structural support. The project shows how city waste can replace carbon-heavy building materials on a large commercial scale. Workers used special concrete containing ground recycled glass in the foundation and floor slabs of JPMorgan Chase’s…

CNN, MS NOW, Politico reporters denied White House access despite court order/Image: Reuters CNN, MS NOW and Politico have asked a federal court for an emergency hearing after their reporters were denied entry to the White House despite a judge ordering the Trump administration to restore their access.US District Judge Timothy Kelly had issued an…

Abbas kept from UNGA podium again as US denies visa, speaks by video Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly on Thursday through prerecorded remarks from his office in Ramallah after the United States denied visas to him and other senior Palestinian officials to attend the gathering in person for the second consecutive…

Carey purchased two apartments in the building in 1999 for a combined $9 million. The units occupied three floors and were subsequently joined to create a single residence measuring approximately 12,728 square feet. Mariah Carey’s Tribeca penthouse has always been more than a New York home. It is a lavish snapshot of the singer’s larger-than-life…

Natalie Flaherty, a 12-year-old from Minnesota who distributed over 100,000 anti-hate bracelets, is one of this year’s Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes winners. The tween won the $10,000 award for her global initiative, ‘I Stand with Anne’, which aims to transform Holocaust remembrance into daily action. The bracelets she made read, “I Stand With…

Professor Brian O’Brien and the carbide lamp he lost inside an Australian cave in 1953. Image: ABC Brian O’Brien was 19 when he entered the Yarrangobilly Caves in New South Wales in December 1953 with fellow caver Fred Stewart, but a short exploration turned into a three-day fight for survival. The pair became separated inside…

A recently discovered collection of Golden Age comics, stored for roughly 75 to 80 years, is heading to auction. According to Heritage Auctions, the original-owner Merrimack Valley Collection includes a 9.4 Captain America Comics No. 3, a 9.0 Captain America Comics No. 1 and the first nine issues of Batman. The books are among the…

Silicon Valley opposes Trump administration’s $103K H-1B fee proposal. TechNet, an industry association representing major US technology companies, has urged the Trump administration to withdraw a proposed $103,265 fee on certain new H-1B visa petitions, saying the measure could make it harder for US companies to recruit highly skilled workers, Wall Street Journal reported. The…

Helen Galloway McNicoll, The Bean Harvest, estimated £150,000-250,000. Sold for £174,000 An English artist and part-time art dealer who bought a wrongly labelled oil painting for £2,090 at a regional UK auction made a life-changing discovery when experts confirmed that the painting was a long-lost Impressionist masterpiece. The artwork had originally been listed only as…