Gujarati man sentenced to 9 years in prison for financial fraud targeting elderly people. A Gujarati fraudster who was arrested in 2024 by the FBI for a massive elderly scam was sentenced to nine years in prison by US district court in Cleveland. Judge J Philip Calabrese sentenced Shreyas Baldevbhai Chaudhary to 110 months in…
Photo credit: Canva (Representative image) When the federal government stepped in to buy the Stewart family’s 890-acre ranch in 1974, most people assumed a century of family cattle operations had reached its end. The acquisition was part of a major initiative to build out California’s Point Reyes National Seashore, setting up an obvious conflict between…
19-year-old Alli Renee Singh died after the car in which she was traveling plunged into ocean in Santa Cruz, California. A 19-year-old US Santa Cruz student, Alli Renee Singh, was killed when a car that she was not driving plunged off Santa Cruz’s iconic West Cliff Drive on August 13. The fatal crash took place…
The island was protected as a National Seashore in 1965. (Picture: NPS) Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland is known for its undeveloped beaches, wildlife and natural coastal habitats. But plans were once in place to turn large parts of Assateague into a resort community with homes, roads, commercial areas and other infrastructure.The island’s story…
Luca McGillPhoto: Society for Science When 13-year-old Luca McGill set out to measure carbon dioxide in Arizona, he assumed the busiest city streets would naturally produce the highest levels. However, his custom drone experiments revealed a completely different reality. As documented by the Society for Science, which highlights young researchers through its Thermo Fisher Scientific…
Rockefeller toured Jackson Hole in 1926. (Alamy stock photo) In the 1920s, Jackson Hole in Wyoming was changing quickly. Tourism was growing, development was spreading and wealthy visitors were arriving in the valley for an authentic cowboy experience. At the same time, local ranchers and businessmen were becoming concerned about the growing number of cabins,…
Indian-American investor Vivek Wadhwa says US should replace H-1B visa with a startup visa now. Indian-American investor Vivek Wadhwa said the US should absolutely end the H-1B visa program as it is doing more harm than good to both the US and India. Wadhwa said the visa program once played an important role in making…
The protester stood up during Trump’s speech and was escorted out. US President Donald Trump was briefly interrupted by a protester during a campaign rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Friday, but quickly brushed off the disruption with a quip about the demonstrator’s mother.The protester stood up during Trump’s speech at the Myrtle Beach…
Zeynep’s work earned her a finalist place in the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Fourteen-year-old Zeynep Demirbas has found that ChatGPT-4o is less accurate than a mental health-focused AI model and a simpler machine-learning system at detecting stress in human written text.Zeynep, an eighth-grade student at Transit Middle School in East Amherst, New…
An American Airlines flight to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport faced a mid-air scare. (File Photo) An American Airlines flight from Atlanta to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport faced a mid-air scare after a passenger’s laptop caught fire during landing, with the pilot reporting that several passengers may have been burned.According to CBS News, which…