Photo: AP ABU DHABI: President Donald Trump wraps up a Mideast tour in the United Arab Emirates with a breakfast for business leaders and a visit to an interfaith place of worship named for the Abraham Accords he negotiated. As part of the accords, the UAE and some other countries in the Middle East recognised […]
Kevin O’Leary slams Donald Trump’s tax bill as ‘war on small business’ (Picture credit: AP, ANI) Investor and entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary has come out swinging against US President Donald Trump’s proposed tax plan, labelling a key portion of it as “anti-American” and a direct attack on small businesses.Speaking on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. Tuesday, […]
Luigi Mangione and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (Picture credit: Agencies) Karen Friedman Agnifilo, wife of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lead attorney Marc Agnifilo, was seen conferring with members of the music mogul’s defence team during a break in court proceedings on Thursday.Among those she spoke to was defence attorney Anna Estevao, who has been spearheading the cross-examination […]
A New Jersey transit train pulls into the Secaucus Junction station (Image: AP) New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike Friday, leaving an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home. The walkout comes after the latest round of negotiations […]
A federal judge in Maryland will hear arguments Friday over whether the Trump administration can invoke the state secrets privilege to withhold information about bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador in April and has since directed the administration to provide […]
Hadi Matar was convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie in 2022 (Image: AP) The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in […]
BRUSSELS: The EU and Britain look will haggle to the wire over fishing rights and food checks as they seek a deal on closer defence ties at a landmark post-Brexit summit next week. The meeting in London on Monday between UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the EU’s top officials was planned to bring the […]
Federal court protects Indian student Priya Saxena in US from deportation over minor traffic violation (Picture credit: LinkedIn, X) A federal court has granted a preliminary injunction protecting Priya Saxena, a 28-year-old Indian student who recently completed her PhD in South Dakota, from deportation following the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) attempt to revoke her […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) Family members of a Black motorist fatally shot by a deputy in southwestern Washington state during a traffic stop have settled their wrongful death lawsuit for $3.5 million. The Clark County Council agreed Wednesday to make the payment in the 2021 death of 30-year-old Jenoah Donald, The Columbian reported. Donald lived in […]
The US Supreme Court is deliberating a case that could fundamentally alter the definition of American citizenship, as it weighs President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants and those in the US on temporary visas. The implications are vast: more than 150,000 newborns could be denied […]
