SEPTA shooting: ‘Extremely frightening incident’: Four shot, including 3 teens, on SEPTA Bus in Philadelphia

[ad_1] Four people, including three teenagers, were shot on a crowded SEPTA Route 15 bus in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park neighbourhood on Saturday evening, prompting a citywide manhunt.The shooting occurred around 6:30 pm (local time) near the intersection of 33rd Street and Girard Avenue, not far from the Philadelphia Zoo, reported CBS News. About 30 passengers […]

Donald Trump: Donald Trump fires copyright chief after AI report raises red flags

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump has dismissed Shira Perlmutter, the head of the US Copyright Office, just days after her office raised concerns over the use of copyrighted material in training artificial intelligence models. The move has triggered fierce backlash from Democrats, with accusations of executive overreach and interference in copyright regulation.According to CBS News, […]

Trump assassination attempt sculpture: Donald Trump adds sculpture of Butler assassination attempt to Oval Office

[ad_1] A small sculpture capturing the dramatic aftermath of the July 2024 assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump has been placed on display in the Oval Office.The statue, which depicts the moment Trump raised his bloodied fist and shouted “Fight! Fight! Fight!” to supporters after being shot in the ear, now sits on a […]

US mayor freed after arrest at ICE centre

[ad_1] Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was released from custody Friday night following his arrest while protesting at a private Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility that is expected to play a key role in Trump’s plans for mass deportations.Three Democratic House members were also at the protest but were not […]

Trump must halt mass layoffs of federal workers: Judge

[ad_1] The Trump administration must temporarily cease from engaging in widespread layoffs and firings of govt workers, a California federal court ruled Friday. President Donald Trump’s Feb executive order calling for a radical reorganisation of the federal workforce likely violates the Constitution, Judge Susan Illston of the US district court for the Northern District of […]

Texas Muslim housing project under lens

[ad_1] The US justice department has opened an investigation into a planned housing development outside Dallas that would have a mosque at its centre, Senator John Cornyn said Friday. Cornyn, who will face Texas’ hard-right attorney general, Ken Paxton, next year in what could be a heated Republican primary contest for his own Senate seat, […]

Ukraine allies set Russia 30-day ultimatum for truce

[ad_1] Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelensky visit the ‘The Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine’, a memorial for Ukrainian soldiers in downtown Kyiv, on Saturday (AFP photo) Kyiv’s allies pressed Russia on Saturday to accept a 30-day unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine from Monday, threatening Moscow with coordinated sanctions if it did […]

US-China trade talks: ‘Great progress made’: Donald Trump on US-China tariff talks being held in Switzerland, hails ‘total reset’

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that “great progress” was made during the first day of high-stakes US-China trade talks in Geneva, signalling what he called a “total reset” in relations between the world’s two largest economies.In a post on Truth Social, the US president wrote, “A very good meeting today with China, […]

Former SpaceX employee with Crohn’s disease sues Elon Musk for being fired over using bathroom frequently

[ad_1] A former employee of Elon Musk’s SpaceX is suing the company for allegedly firing him over frequent bathroom use caused by a chronic medical condition. According to The Independednt, Douglas Altshuler, 58, claims he was mistreated and ultimately terminated because of Crohn’s disease — a gastrointestinal illness that often requires urgent and repeated visits […]

Trump withdraws funding for research aimed at saving babies with heart defect

[ad_1] The Trump administration has revoked funding was for a pioneering heart device designed to save the lives of critically ill infants, only days after it was granted by the US department of defense. The $6.7 million grant, awarded to Dr James Antaki and his team at Cornell University on 30 March, was meant to […]