Physicist Chen Ning Yang passes away at 103; had won 1957 Nobel for work on ‘parity laws’ – tributes pour in

Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang delivers a speech at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, on April 14, 2014. (Chinatopix via AP) Renowned Chinese physicist Chen Ning Yang, who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics, died of illness in Beijing on Saturday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.He was […]

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Supreme Court Lets Trump Lift Deportation Protections for Venezuelans

The Supreme Court on Monday let the Trump administration, for now, remove protections from nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants who had been allowed to remain in the United States without risk of deportation under a program known as Temporary Protected Status. The court’s brief order was unsigned and gave no reasons, which is typical when the […]

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