WASHINGTON – The Delta variant has emerged as the greatest threat to the efforts of combatting the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. as it now accounts for more than 20
WASHINGTON â President Joe Biden June 15 installed an energetic critic of Big Tech as a top federal regulator at a time when the industry is under intense pressure from Congress, regulators, and state attorneys general.
The selection of legal scholar Lina Khan to head the Federal Trade Commission is seen as signaling a tough stance toward tech giants Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple. Khan was sworn in as FTC chair just hours after the Senate confirmed her as one of five members of the commission on a 69-28 vote.
Khan has been a professor at Columbia University Law School and burst onto the antitrust scene with her massive scholarly work in 2017 as a Yale law student, âAmazonâs Antitrust Paradox.â She helped lay the foundation for a new way of looking at antitrust law beyond the impact of big-company market dominance on consumer prices. As counsel to a House Judiciary antitrust panel in 2019 and 2020, she played a key role in a sweeping bipartisan investigatio
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SAN JOSE, Calif. A Sikh American was identified as one of the victims of the shooting at a California rail yard May 26, when an employee opened fire, killing eight people before taking his own life as law enforcement rushed in (see India-West story here: https://bit.ly/3oXwnRc). Authorities said it marks the latest attack in a year that has seen a sharp increase in mass killings as the nation emerges from coronavirus restrictions.
The shooting took place around 6:30 a.m. in two buildings at a light rail facility for the Valley Transportation Authority, which provides bus, light rail and other transit services throughout Santa Clara County, the most populated county in the San Francisco Bay Area.
SOUTHWICK, Mass. â A Massachusetts woman who accidentally tossed out a $1 million lottery ticket eventually collected her winnings thanks to the kindness and honesty of the Indian American owners of the store where she bought it.
Lea Rose Fiega bought the $30 Diamond Millions scratch-off ticket in March at the Lucky Stop convenience store in Southwick near where she works.
âI was in a hurry, on lunch break, and just scratched it real quick, and looked at it, and it didn t look like a winner, so I handed it over to them to throw away, she said May 24.
The ticket lay behind the counter for 10 days.