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‘Bronx Girl’ or Yorktown Grad? NY Republican challenges AOC’s suburban roots with yearbook photo after Trump clash | World News

‘Bronx Girl’ or Yorktown Grad? NY Republican challenges AOC’s suburban roots with yearbook photo after Trump clash A latest social media fracas between President Donald Trump and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has drawn additional scrutiny after a New York state lawmaker challenged the congresswoman’s claims about her upbringing.The confrontation erupted when Ocasio-Cortez criticized Trump’s weekend strikes […]

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’: How US president could change America’s immigration system – the wall, ICE & more

US President Donald Trump (Pic credit: AP) Donald Trump’s ambitious spending cut and border security package – the “big, beautiful bill” – is estimated to inject around $150 billion into the mass deportation agenda of the US leader in the four years of his second and final term – 15 times the current annual budget […]

Nigerian farms battle traffic, developers in downtown Abuja

ABUJA: Under the din of traffic from the highway bridge that cuts over his fields, Bala Haruna inspects corn, cassava and okra on his family farm.A pump pulls up water from a nearby stream and is diverted through trenches dug through cropland wedged between four-lane roads — fields which were here long before the nearby […]

Trump’s latest rejection of intelligence assessments reflects long distrust of spy agencies

Trump’s latest rejection of intelligence assessments reflects long distrust of spy agencies (Image: AP) WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump‘s fights with the intelligence community were a running theme of his first term, as he raged against an investigation into his campaign’s alleged links to Russia. Now, a sequel is playing out as Trump battles to shape […]

Judge dismisses authors’ copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training

SAN FRANCISCO: A federal judge sided with Facebook parent meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology. The Wednesday ruling from US district judge Vince Chhabria was the second in a week from San Francisco’s federal […]

Death sentence in 1976: Mississippi executes longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Jordan after 49 years | World News

Death sentence in 1976: Mississippi executes longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Jordan, after 49 years Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving prisoner on Mississippi’s death row, nearly 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter in a failed ransom plot was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday.Jordan,a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran, received the injection at 6 […]

Thailand banning cannabis sales without prescription 3 years after decriminalisation

BANGKOK: Thailand is further tightening control of cannabis by banning sales of the plant to those without prescriptions.Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalise cannabis in 2022, in a move that boosted Thailand’s tourism and farming, and spawned thousands of shops. But the country has faced public backlash over allegations that under-regulation has […]

Watch: Ukrainian reporter asks Trump if US will sell anti-air missile systems to Kyiv; what president said

US President Donald Trump (Left) and BBC Ukraine correspondent Myroslava Petsa (Right) US President Donald Trump paused for an emotional moment with a Ukrainian reporter, who asked whether they would supply Patriot missiles in the war against Moscow, after she revealed that her husband is currently serving on the front lines.At the closing press conference […]

Watch: White House drops ‘Daddy’s home’ music video featuring Trump at Nato Summit; here’s the context

Pete Hegseth, center, and Marco Rubio, right, laugh as a reporter asked if Nato secretary general Mark Rutte called US President Donald Trump “daddy” during a news conference at the 2025 Nato Summit in The Hague, Netherlands. (NYT News Service) The White House on Thursday joined the buzz around US PresidentDonald Trump’s latest “Daddy” nickname […]

Trump gets ‘golden share’ power in US Steel buyout. US agencies will get it under future presidents

HARRISBURG: President Donald Trump will control the so called “golden share” that’s part of the national security agreement under which he allowed Japan based Nippon steel to buy out iconic American steelmaker US Steel, according to disclosures with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.The provision gives the president the power to appoint a board member […]