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President Biden Joe Biden Fighter jet escorts aircraft that entered restricted airspace during UN gathering Julian Castro knocks Biden administration over refugee policy FBI investigating alleged assault on Fort Bliss soldier at Afghan refugee camp MORE ’s pick to lead a powerful bank regulator is certain to spark a partisan battle in the Senate. Biden announced Thursday he will nominate Cornell University law professor Saule Omarova to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), tapping a fierce critic of big banks for a post with broad power over the industry. Omarova has argued that major banks have failed to serve broader public needs and that the Federal Reserve should replace private firms in consumer banking. ADVERTISEMENT In a paper published last year, she proposed “a series of structural reforms that would radically redefine the role of a central bank” and “fundamentally alter the operations and systemic footprints of private …

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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. In late May, when the New York Times journalists Keith Collins and Matthew Haag sent their first email to the company that owns the Empire State Building, New York was expected to fully reopen within six to eight weeks — and they had an ambitious idea for how to cover it. They wanted to create a 3-D model of the building that would showcase the reopening of its offices, retail shops and observation deck. They would use floor plans to build an immersive experience that would take readers inside the world’s most famous skyscraper. There was just one problem: The company, Empire Realty Trust, declined to provide them with information. “They wouldn’t give us anything,” said Mr. Collins, a visual journalist and graphics editor at The New York Times. “Not even the directory.” Determined to learn what a widely known piece of real estate could say …

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The world was not prepared for the fight against Covid-19 but it has been heartening to see many different fields, including healthcare and hospitality, come together to confront this deadly virus . The tech industry has played a vital role, delivering apps to track infected patients, thereby giving everyone else the best possible chance of staying safe. A different story is emerging in India, however. Almost six months ago, the government launched a promising Covid-19 tracker app called Aarogya Setu . It was publicised as the beacon of hope that would help the country in its battle with coronavirus. Unfortunately, it has not quite worked out like that. An Indian Right to Information (RTI) activist, Saurav Das, has since filed an appeal with the Central Information Commission (CIC), stating that the official bodies, which should be answerable for the formation of the app, haven’t made public who created it, prompting an even bigger question: where is all the …

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Here’s what you need to know: Officials across the country move to ban chokeholds and defund the police. A New Jersey corrections officer is suspended after mocking George Floyd’s death during a protest. George Floyd is remembered as a father, son, nephew and ‘Superman.’ Plea deal negotiations with Chauvin broke down the day before he was charged with murder, prosecutors say. Trump promotes a conspiracy theory about an injured Buffalo protester. Evoking history, black cowboys and cowgirls are riding at protests. A New York City officer who shoved a protester surrenders to face charges. Officials across the country move to ban chokeholds and defund the police. More than two weeks after George Floyd gasped under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer that he could not breathe — an embodiment of the suffocation long felt by black Americans — the mayor of Houston stood at his funeral on Tuesday and announced that he would ban the city’s police from …

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A day after the armed hit on a dreaded gangster followed by a shoot-out between the police and the assailants inside the Rohini district courts, lawyers abstained from work in all district courts on Saturday demanding better security on court premises. Jitender Maan alias Gogi and two assailants who gunned him down were killed in a shoot-out inside a courtroom in Rohini on Friday. No work took place in the district courts except urgent matters such as bail and custody extension as the lawyers did not appear before the judges, said Sanjeev Nasiar, the spokesperson of the Coordination Committee of all District Courts Bar Associations in Delhi. The strike was called by the committee seeking modification of security norms on all the seven district courts premises. The courts, however, passed orders and judgments that were already scheduled for Saturday, he said. Met police chief Mr. Nasiar added that a team of lawyers also met the Delhi Police Commissioner on Saturday to discuss …

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As our beloved gadgets evolve, so too must our accessories. And that doesn't just mean new versions of old technology, like bigger power strips with the outlets properly spaced to accommodate a gaggle of large adapters. Today's best chargers are reimagined based on function, efficiency and location. With that in mind, RapidX sent me their MyCharging Station to check out for myself—and with my family's myriad mobile gizmos. What makes it special isn't just that it charges multiple (in fact, up to seven) gadgets at once. Other docks can do that, more or less. But this one does it in a way that's designed for today's devices, without requiring bulky adapters or taking up a single square centimeter of counter space. The Installation Process The very first step was finding the proper outlet. It had to be a vertical setup with the grounded prong at the bottom (to ensure gravity didn't fight against the devices while charging). And ideally it would be higher than 6 inches off the …

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Puri (name changed), a scientific assistant who just joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, missed the staff bus at Dadar that day. Taxi was too expensive. He eagerly waited at the main junction, hoping to get a lift. He frantically waved his hand when a car with the BARC nameplate passed by, virtually jumping in front of it. The driver ignored him. But after a few yards the vehicle stopped. A bespectacled gentleman seated behind beckoned him. Puri ran fast and got into the front seat. “BARC laboratories should have been somewhere in the city and not in faraway Trombay,” he grumbled. The benevolent occupant was busy reading some book. Puri, at his ebullient best, interrupted him a few times. He annoyed the driver. Puri didn’t care. His co-passenger wore an amused look. As the car approached the BARC gate, his co-passenger tapped Puri on the shoulder. “Where do you want to get down”? “Is it ok if I drop you at the next junction”? “That is ok, gentleman,” Puri responded. He …

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1930s. Mahatma Gandhi’s homespun self-reliance and his non-violent freedom movement had spread like wildfire across the nation. Public enthusiasm was at boiling point with youngsters joining the movement in droves. Colleges became a hot bed of political and social activity. This was also the period of awakening, when new thoughts were propagated, knowledge and literacy considered priorities. A group of youngsters in Tripunithura, then the seat of the Cochin Royal Family, inspired by the Mahatma’s teachings, fuelled by the freedom movement, founded the Mahatma Library and Reading Room on January 18, 1933. This library and reading room became the hub of literary discussions and handwritten magazines were brought out. It provided a platform for the youngsters to express and involve, even if in a small way, in the struggle for independence that was spearheaded by Gandhiji. A year later, on January 14, 1934, the first anniversary celebrations of the library was presided over by the …

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GEORGE TOWN: The state government has been urged to be transparent and explain to the people what is happening to the undersea tunnel project, which may be replaced by an elevated bridge. Penang MCA chief Datuk Tan Teik Cheng said the state government used a 3.7 acre land to exchange for a RM305mil feasibility study and detailed design (FSDD) report on the undersea tunnel and three highways. “It has been eight years since the feasibility study and detailed design report was commissioned, and until today, the state government has not even seen it. “And now, we are told that an elevated bridge may be the third link,” he said yesterday. Tan was responding to The Star’s front-page report on the possibility of an elevated bridge replacing the undersea tunnel as the third link. “The state government has also signed an agreement to swap 110 acres for the undersea tunnel and three roads. “If the deal now is to build a bridge which is half the cost, how will the land swap proceed? …

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President Joe Biden nominated a lawyer who currently works at a firm notorious for union-busting to serve in a powerful regulatory position on Wednesday. Biden nominated Susan Harthill, an attorney at the Washington firm Morgan Lewis, to serve on the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC). Harthill was hired as a partner at Morgan Lewis in 2018 after serving as the Department of Labor’s deputy solicitor of labor for national operations and is currently a senior consultant at the firm. “Susan Harthill represents employers in the full range of employment law and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) matters, with a focus on counseling, compliance, litigation, and audits and investigations,” the White House said Wednesday. “Ms. Harthill advises employers on statutory and regulatory compliance and conducts trainings, including harassment and discrimination training,” it continued. (RELATED: Amazon Warehouse Workers Overwhelmingly Reject Unionization …

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