JPMorgan economists Michael Feroli and Abiel Reinhart have raised concerns over the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s executive order introducing a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications. Their report predicts that the policy could reduce the number of work authorisations in the US by up to 5,500 per month. This estimate is based […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) A research team in California has used artificial intelligence to design viral genomes, which were later built and tested in a laboratory. Some of these AI-created viruses successfully infected bacteria, demonstrating that generative AI models can produce functional genetic material.Researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute in Palo Alto described the […]
Salt trucks were not deployed to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Chicago’s administration said on Monday, countering viral social media videos suggesting otherwise.The city said the trucks were in place “to support public safety efforts related to a planned protest and the Taste of Chicago,” calling it a “routine practice,” as quoted by NBC. […]
John Kennedy (L), picture from the 1979 movie, ‘Alien’ (R) Louisiana senator John Kennedy on Wednesday held up a poster from the 1979 sci-fi film Alien, warning that eating recently recalled shrimp could turn people into the movie’s monster. The Republican said the frozen shrimp imported from abroad was radioactive, comparing its effects to the […]
The United States’ decision to introduce a new $250 “visa integrity fee” has sparked concerns across the global travel industry, which is already struggling with declining arrivals amid President Donald Trump’s tough immigration policies and strained foreign relations.According to US government data, overseas travel to the US dropped 3.1% year-on-year in July, with only 19.2 […]
In a move to curb rising pedestrian accidents, Sharjah Police have released a striking video that captures a fatal collision between a car and a pedestrian crossing recklessly. This comes as the UAE enforces stricter penalties for jaywalking under a new federal traffic law effective March 29, 2025. The authorities emphasize that unsafe crossing habits […]
US President Donald Trump’s longtime biographer Michael Wolff said that the White House believes that Ghislaine Maxwell’s family leaked Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book” to the Wall Street Journal as a warning sign to Trump that she has damaging information against him.According to Wolff, this prompted a response from the department of justice, which rushed to […]
The Trump administration has stopped a special phone service that helped LGBTQ kids and young adults with mental health problems. This move has upset many people, including Democrats, doctors, and LGBTQ rights groups.This service was part of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. It let callers under 25 talk to trained counsellors who understand LGBTQ […]
California’s Madre wildfire explodes California’s Madre fire has ballooned into the state’s largest active blaze by Friday evening, scorching about 70,800 acres in a remote stretch of Central California north of Santa Barbara and west of Bakersfield. The wildfire, which ignited on Wednesday, July 2, advanced rapidly overnight, doubling its footprint to roughly 35,000 acres […]
(AI image for representation) As Israeli airstrikes pounded Iran’s nuclear and military sites earlier this month, Israeli intelligence agents launched a covert intimidation campaign against top Iranian officials.The mission’s personal phone calls warned Iranian generals to flee or face the same fate as their slain colleagues.On June 13, just hours after Israel began a wave […]
