Charles Barkley used his college basketball platform to make a political statement. The loquacious hoops analyst and Hall of Famer criticized the treatment of immigrants in America during CBS’s Elite Eight pregame show Sunday. The network aired a segment on senior UConn forward Alex Karaban, whose mother, Olga, is from Ukraine, and whose father, Alexei, … Read more
An American Airlines flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida was detoured to the Bahamas earlier last week, stranding passengers at a local airport overnight without any accommodations, forcing travelers to sleep on the floor. It also temporarily turned the passengers into illegal immigrants in the island nation. “They made a point to … Read more
Tyson Foods says it’s eager to hire over 40,000 asylum-seekers and migrants arriving in the United States, according to a report from Bloomberg. The multinational food conglomerate is allegedly hoping to hire personnel from the massive influx of migrants coming into the country from South and Central America. “They’re very, very loyal,” Tyson human resources leader Garrett … Read more
It was front-page news in 1912 when Jacob Schiff, the German-born American Jewish banker and philanthropist, donated $100,000 (the equivalent of more than $ 3 million today) to promote German cultural studies at Cornell University. News reports noted that an air of mystery surrounded the “gratifying surprise,” since, as Cornell’s president noted, the gift was … Read more
It’s a modern-day Greek tragedy. A dad-to-be is lamenting the name his mythology-loving wife wants to give their daughter as he fears she will be looked at as a three-syllable “skank.” “This has led to an extremely severe but also extremely stupid argument,” the second-generation Greek immigrant — who had agreed on a mythological name … Read more
For one Maryland girl, the American Dream came at a heavy price. Back when Hamna Zafar, 23, was just a teenager, her family flew to Pakistan for what she believed was a routine visit with relatives. Instead, she found herself in the middle of her own engagement party to a man — her cousin — handpicked by … Read more