The sweet smell of baklava wafted in the air as gentle Arabic music welcomed Pitt students of different ethnicities and cultures for a Middle Eastern experience. Students wandered the room, chatting with their friends, dipping pita bread into hummus and getting henna tattoos. According to Amani Attia — the coordinator of Arabic Language program — […]

Last Saturday, I joined several hundred of the area’s community and business leaders at the Westmoreland Club for the Northeast Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Heart Association’s 2018 Heart Gala. Yet again, the club and its amazing staff, led by Bob Williams, proved how remarkably fortunate we are to have such a sophisticated and elegant […]

Celebrities team up with beauty brands to act as their spokesmodels all the time, but there’s something extra special about the fact that Kerry Washington is the face of Neutrogena. Not only is she a model in the brand’s campaigns, but since she joined up, Kerry has pushed Neutrogena to create new products that serve a […]

Lavrov says strike a ‘very dangerous development’; No comment from Israel on allegations it carried out attack The United States, Russia and Syria said Israel carried out a deadly airstrike on an Iran-operated air base in Syria’s central Homs province overnight Monday, with Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov describing the raid as a “very dangerous […]

PRINEVILLE — The students in Connor Booster’s sixth-grade international studies class turned their gazes in every direction, soaking up as much detail as they could of Robben Island in South Africa. The 14 students carefully studied Nelson Mandela’s tiny prison cell and voiced their concern that the cell lacked a bathroom. “You see that red […]

Looks like Brad Pitt and new friend Neri Oxman have known each other for a while. The actor, 54, was spotted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology back in November where he seemingly dropped by one of Oxman’s classes the week after Thanksgiving. Several students posted pictures of the actor posing with the class, including one where he […]

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies in front of Congress about the company’s practices this week, Americans are waking up to just how much personal information tech companies have collected about them. Facebook said it will begin notifying 87 million people this week whose information was handed to political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica without their […]

A 205-million-year-old prehistoric reptile bone found on a beach in England belongs to a giant ichthyosaur, one of the largest animals that ever lived, according to an international team of researchers. It was a jawbone of a giant ichthyosaur that, experts estimate, may have measured up to a whopping 26 meters (85 feet) long—approaching the […]

As tax day rapidly approaches, there’s no lack of uncertainty amongst tax professionals regarding cryptocurrency investors purchasing digital assets through foreign exchanges. Regardless of the government’s seemingly straightforward legislative position, ambiguity continues to riddle the field when in-depth analysis is made. WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? The IRS has clearly outlined that transacting with cryptocurrency is treated […]

U.S. President Donald Trump said, “we’re making a decision as to what we do with respect to the horrible attack that was made near Damascus…and it will be met forcefully.”  U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to take military action against Syria over a suspected chemical-weapons attack on civilians over the weekend, while Russia warned […]