A growing number of immigrants in US are abandoning their legal cases and choosing to leave the country, many while held in detention centres. This comes as voluntary departures are on a surge under Trump administration.Court data obtained by the Vera Institute of Justice shows that immigration judges issued more than 80,000 “voluntary departure” orders […]
New Yorkers are being warned they could be opening “Pandora’s box” as the state moves towards legalizing physician-assisted suicide this summer, with Canada’s experience as a cautionary tale.Debbie Fisher, a 71-year-old from Ontario, said her elderly mother narrowly avoided being euthanised after making a single remark in hospital. Her mother, 93-year-old Rita Busby, had been […]
Donald Trump (File photo) US president Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a stark warning to Iran as his ultimatum to open the Strait of Hormuz, saying “whole civilisation will die tonight”.“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that […]
Two firefighters were killed in a head-on crash in Pennsylvania on Monday while searching for a missing woman, officials said.Fire Chief Jeff Buck and Assistant Fire Chief Robert Shick Jr of the Walnuttown Fire Company were travelling north in a utility vehicle along Route 222 on Saturday around 6 pm when they were struck by […]
An elderly couple from Maryland who had been married for 70 years died holding hands after a car crash that left both critically injured.90-year-old Kenneth Oland and his wife, 88-year-old Marilyn Oland, were involved in a two-vehicle crash on February 24 near US Route 15 and Hessong Bridge Road in Frederick County, Maryland. Authorities said […]
Irish rock band U2 has released a surprise six-track EP titled Days of Ash, with its opening song “American Obituary” serving as a tribute to Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis mother of three who was fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent last month.The EP, released on Ash Wednesday, marks the […]
An Indian-origin man in Melbourne reported racist, hateful notes scattered across the front yard of his Epping home when he was cleaning his car. ‘Go back to India’, ‘Die Nazi’ — the notes read. The man who did not want to disclose hi name posted the photos of the racist notes on a local Facebook […]
While Minneapolis is reeling from the shock of another resident being shot by ICE agents within a month, Stella Carlson, the woman who saw 37-year-old Alex Pretti being shot has spoken out for the first time. In an interview, Carlson shared a first-hand account of the fatal incident. For her, what was supposed to be […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson says falling into a black hole would be his ultimate, final cosmic experiment/ image: Youtube If there were ever a way to choose how to die, Neil deGrasse Tyson once argued that falling into a black hole would be the most extraordinary option available. Not because it would be painless, he is […]
