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The Home Depot logo is displayed outside a store in Los Angeles where immigration agents arrested day laborers after jumping out of a rental moving truck. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Ray Hudson arrived at his local Home Depot in Los Angeles preparing for a move. He picked up plastic crates. Usually, he would also hire help — one of the men who tend to gather nearby looking for work. But they weren’t there. Earlier that day, on August 6, federal agents in tactical gear sprung out of a…

Prithvi Shaw, who has moved to Maharashtra ahead of the new domestic season, believes he can regain the lost ground. The 25-year-old, who scored a century on his Test debut in 2018, has seen his career nose-dive because of disciplinary and fitness issues and was dropped by his home state unit Mumbai. Having shifted to Maharashtra, he began the season on a resounding note scoring 111 against Chhattisgarh in the Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament here on Tuesday. Beginning their first innings after Chhattisgarh made 252, Shaw was the standout performer for Maharashtra which folded for 217. Since being dropped from…

Granville Island Hotel, the only hotel located on Vancouver’s busy Granville Island, looks a bit confusing, architecturally speaking. A remodeled Spanish colonial structure? (Check.) Or a winking reference to the area’s past, when Granville Island, then the industrial hub of Vancouver, was full of corrugated steel warehouses? (Check.) As you stroll down the long, striped entry corridor and enter the hotel—you can’t miss the waterfront views, nor the yachts moored outside—one thing hits you: Whatever it is, it works. All 82 rooms are unique. A relatively recent renovation scrapped the former nautical theme in favor of a more refined, contemporary…

New US tariffs covering 407 products will take effect immediately.The United States Commerce Department is set to hike steel and aluminium tariffs on more than 400 products including wind turbines, mobile cranes, bulldozers and other heavy equipment, along with railcars, furniture and hundreds of other products.The government agency announced the new development on Tuesday.The department said 407 product categories are being added to the list of “derivative” steel and aluminium products covered by sectoral tariffs, with a 50 percent tariff on any steel and aluminium content of these products.The department is also adding imported parts for automotive exhaust systems and…

Grammarly has stepped into the AI agent space with a strong focus on education and workplace writing. The company has introduced nine AI-powered agents designed to act as smart writing partners, moving beyond traditional grammar and spell-check. Grammarly ‘s new AI agents aim to be your smartest writing partner.(Unsplash) These tools are built into a new platform called Grammarly Docs, an AI-first writing space where users can draft, edit and refine their work with real-time assistance. The idea is to help people write with more confidence, for instance, if it’s a student preparing an assignment or a professional drafting an…

The Broken Bridge. | Photo Credit: File Photo Say “A bridge to nowhere”, every old-timer in Chennai knows exactly what you mean. Overseeing the Adyar estuary, this wasn’t a half bridge when it was built in 1967, initially helped fisherfolk travel from Adyar to Srinivasapuram. It was meant to be their shortcut. However, nature had the final word in 1977. A part of it collapsed into the estuary due to a strong current, never to be repaired again. It is no riddle, of course, the Broken Bridge.Since then, the structure has lived more in stories than in function. Many chilling…

The Water Resources Department (WRD) of Andhra Pradesh issued the first flood warning of this monsoon season at the Prakasam Barrage across the Krishna River, after flood discharge crossed 3.97 lakh cusecs on Tuesday morning, marking the second flood alert in just a week. The officials said that the inflows were likely to rise further, with nearly 6 lakh cusecs anticipated as heavy releases continue from upstream reservoirs, including Almatti, Narayanapur, Srisailam, Nagarjuna Sagar and Pulichinthala.Meanwhile, a malfunction in the Gate 69 of the Prakasam Barrage in Vijayawada was reported, which had sustained damage during the floods last year. When…

In June, Brazil’s Supreme Court voted to require tech companies to assume greater responsibility for user-generated content [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Brazil’s government has asked U.S. technology giant Meta to rid its platforms of chatbots that mimic children and can make sexually suggestive remarks, the attorney general’s office (AGU) announced Monday.Users of Meta’s platforms, which include Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, can create and customise such bots using the company’s generative artificial intelligence, AI Studio.The AGU said in a statement that Meta must “immediately” remove “artificial intelligence robots that simulate profiles with childlike language and appearance and are allowed to…

Published on: Aug 19, 2025 11:48 am IST Google is testing a live translation feature within Circle to Search, allowing users to translate text within webpages, videos, social media, and others. Google’s popular Circle to Search feature is getting an upgrade with the new Scroll and Translate feature. This new feature adds live translation capabilities, allowing users to translate images, webpages and other forms of media, including videos. This feature is reportedly being rolled out to selected Google app beta users only on Pixel devices. Google is working on a new live translation feature dubbed Scroll and Translate for Circle…

new video loaded: How Zelensky Made Progress With TrumpBy Michael Schwirtz, Claire Hogan and Nikolay Nikolov•August 19, 2025President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had a remarkably different White House visit on Monday than the ambush he walked into six months ago. Michael Schwirtz, the global intelligence correspondent for The New York Times, explains how President Zelensky courted President Trump and managed to put the ball back in Vladimir V. Putin’s court.Recent episodes in InternationalInternational video coverage from The New York Times.International video coverage from The New York Times.Show more videos from International