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In the upcoming episode of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (8 June), you will see an interesting twist when Armaan gives Abhira his handkerchief.

Elon Musk’s blowup with President Trump may have doomed Washington’s most potent partnership, but the billionaire’s signature cost-cutting project has become deeply embedded in Mr. Trump’s administration and could be there to stay. At the Department of Energy, for example, a former member of the Department of Government Efficiency is now serving as the chief […]

A new study has found that a thickly forested sliver of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the most complete ancient agricultural location in the eastern United States. The Sixty Islands archaeological site is recognized as the ancestral home of the Menominee Nation. Known to the members of the tribe as Anaem Omot (Dog’s Belly), the area […]

It had made sense to Nour Barda and Heba al-Arqan in November 2023 to try for another baby when a temporary truce had just taken hold in Gaza. Mr. Barda’s father, who had only sons, kept asking when he might have a granddaughter at last. Back then, the war seemed like it might end. Back […]

Born in northeast Haiti with a heart defect, Brad Mertens Joseph is 6, has difficulty walking and is still in diapers. His parents, accustomed to a dangerous 11-hour overnight bus ride to see cardiologists in the country’s violent capital, had finally found a solution to their son’s medical ailment, caused by a hole in his […]

Q: I recently bought a co-op in Manhattan. During the due-diligence process before the purchase, the co-op board assured me and my attorney that there were no noise issues or noise complaints relating to the unit. It turns out that our upstairs neighbors have children who play ball and run around constantly, which causes quite […]

Outside the JPMorgan headquarters in Manhattan. Momo Takahashi / Business Insider A budding movement is taking shape to unionize staffers at JPMorgan Chase, America’s biggest bank by assets. If the yearslong unionization effort at Wells Fargo is any indication, they could have a long road ahead. Last week, JPMorgan’s organizers hosted a virtual meeting with […]

Outside the husk of a shuttered yarn factory, thousands of old solar panels lie stacked on the gravel. Local leaders say they can see the future here: 1,200 people recycling millions of those panels each year and making the glass to build new ones. This is no field of dreams. A company, Solarcycle, has already […]

Russian counterintelligence agents are analyzing data from the popular Chinese messaging and social media app WeChat to monitor people who might be in contact with Chinese spies, according to a Russian intelligence document obtained by The New York Times. The disclosure highlights the rising level of concern about Chinese influence in Russia as the two […]

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