JD Vance during interview with Theo Von (Screen grab from X @VP) US vice president JD Vance sought to ease growing tensions between US President Donald Trump and billionaire, Elon Musk, calling the Tesla CEO’s recent outbursts emotional but well-intentioned.In an interview with comedian Theo Von released Friday, Vance said of Musk, “I think his […]
A team of inmates from Dubai Police Central Jail took fifth place at the first online edition of the Asian inmate chess championship. Photo: Dubai Police via The National A team of inmates from Dubai Police’s Correctional and Penal Institutions has earned fifth place in the first-ever Asian Inmate Chess Championship, a virtual tournament overseen […]
New York mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, Mira Nair’s son, has been accused of Hindu hatred. Indian-origin New York politician Jenifer Rajkumar slammed Mira Nair’s son Zohran Mamdani, the New York mayoral candidate from the Socialist Party, for a recent statement against India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an open forum. At the forum, he was […]
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 […]
Kash Patel announces Operation Restore Justice under which over 200 child sex predators have been arrested. FBI director Kash Patel Wednesday announced US administration’s Operation Restore Justice in which over 200 alleged child sex predators were arrested in the last week. “For the last week, the FBI and DOJ have been quietly surging operations across […]
Picture credit: Blue Origin Pop star Katy Perry became one of the few civilians to travel to space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft on Monday. In a post on X after her return, Perry wrote, “There’s no place like home,” accompanied by a heart and an Earth emoji, signalling her relief and gratitude for […]
Representative image (Picture credit: AP) The United States is now bracing for a major wave of anti-Trump and anti-Musk protests under the “Hands Off!” banner. Organisers say more than 1,200 events are planned across all 50 US states on Saturday, in what’s being described as the largest coordinated protest since Donald Trump began his second […]
Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney recounted her horror of staying 11 days in ICE detention. Canadian actress and entrepreneur Jasmine Mooney who was detained by ICE agents at the Mexican border in March said the place “breaks you into a million pieces”. During her 11-day detention, Mooney was transferred to many places and underwent many medical […]
