A 21-year-old Indian student in the US was arrested in North Carolina for allegedly impersonating a “federal agent” to scam a 78-year-old woman.The accused, identified as Kishan Kumar Singh, was taken into custody by deputies from the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office after the woman reported receiving phone calls from individuals claiming to be deputies with […]
Who will win Canada elections 2025? What polls predict? (Picture credit: AP) Recent polling data suggests a tight race in Canada’s 2025 federal election, with former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney’s Liberals holding a slight edge over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.Multiple polling firms indicate the Liberals are positioned to secure the most seats, though the […]
Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in what prosecutors describe as a politically motivated assassination, pleaded not guilty to federal murder charges on Friday during an arraignment in Manhattan federal court. US prosecutors are seeking the death penalty—marking the first such federal case since Donald Trump’s return to the White House.The 26-year-old, […]
Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to the federal charge of murder. Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to the federal charge of murder that carries the death penalty over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. This means now Mangione will face the trial as the judge told the court that she will hold the next […]
_Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (AP) JACKSON: The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city, who’s under indictment on federal bribery and conspiracy charges, is fighting to keep his job. In a matchup Jackson voters have seen before, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, seeking a third term, faces state Sen. John Horhn in a Democratic primary runoff on Tuesday. […]
A federal appeals court has ruled in favour of the Trump administration on Wednesday, allowing it to proceed with the dismissal of thousands of probationary federal employees. This overturns a previous court order in Baltimore that had required reinstatement.The court ruled that the employees’ terminations should be challenged through the federal employment process rather than […]
US President Donald Trump The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday halted a directive requiring the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers who were dismissed during extensive workforce reductions. The court’s intervention came after the administration sought emergency relief from a California federal judge’s decision, which mandated the return of 16,000 probationary staff […]
Representative image (Picture credit: AP) A US federal judge has, for the second time, ordered the Trump administration to return a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, despite warnings he would face danger there.The man, 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia, remains jailed in El Salvador’s infamous Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), after being […]
The US internal revenue service (IRS) has started laying off staff as part of sweeping job cuts that could see up to 20,000 employees, around a quarter of its entire workforce, lose their jobs, according to three people familiar with the matter.The layoffs began on Friday and will initially hit the IRS’s office of civil […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: PTI) A US federal judge on Friday blocked US President Donald Trump’s move to dismantle the Latin America development agency, Inter-American Foundation (IAF), ruling that the administration likely overstepped its authority when it removed the agency’s leadership and froze its grants.US district judge Loren AliKhan, an appointee […]
