[ad_1] Former US President Barack Obama called on universities to protect their academic freedom, taking a firm stand against political intimidation as the Trump administration continues to ramp up financial pressure on higher education institutions.Speaking at Hamilton College on Thursday, Obama warned that universities must resist federal attacks that threaten their core values and independence. […]
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump (Pic credit: AP) US stock futures plunged on Friday, pointing to deeper losses on Wall Street after China struck back with new tariffs in response to the Trump administration‘s sweeping import duties. The tit-for-tat move intensified investor concerns, sending global markets into a tailspin and wiping out trillions in equity […]
[ad_1] A 23-year-old pro-life activist was left bloodied and needing stitches after being punched in the face during a street interview in New York City.A viral video showed Savannah Craven Antao, a reporter with the advocacy group Live Action, conducting street interviews in Harlem on Thursday when a heated exchange with an unidentified woman suddenly […]
[ad_1] Global markets were rattled on Friday as US President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff war triggered a massive sell-off, erasing more than $9 trillion in market capitalisation since his second-term inauguration on January 20. The Wall Street meltdown, the worst since the Covid -19 pandemic, sent shockwaves across global financial centres. The S&P 500 plunged […]
[ad_1] US secretary of state Marco Rubio (Pic credit: AP) In a blunt message, US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Friday said Denmark must reckon with the reality that “Greenlanders don’t want to be a part of it.”“Denmark should focus on the fact that the Greenlanders don’t want to be a part of Denmark,” […]
[ad_1] The New York state education department rejected demands from the Trump administration to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in public schools, arguing that there is no legal basis for such orders.The state’s response came after a federal memo threatened to withhold critical Title I funding—meant for schools with high numbers of low-income […]
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump posted a video on his social media handles showing what he claimed was an American airstrike that killed dozens of Houthi fighters in Yemen. The black-and-white footage appeared to have been filmed from a drone or military aircraft and shows a group of people gathered near a road, marked by […]
[ad_1] In song, and then in bronze, she has become an emblem of Irish culture and an enduring symbol of working-class Dublin. But to the familiar folklore of Molly Malone represented in her statue on Suffolk Street in central Dublin – a pretty young face, a hawker’s cart of cockles and mussels, a low-cut frilly […]
[ad_1] Catholic priest Arul Carasala shot dead. (Image Credit: Facebook/Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann) A Catholic priest from Andhra Pradesh was shot and killed by a man who approached him at his parish rectory in Kansas, church officials said. An Oklahoma man is being held on suspicion of the killing.Officers found Arul Carasala, who hailed from […]
[ad_1] China has struck back at President Trump on Friday. In a rapid fire series of policy announcements from Beijing, including 34% across-the-board tariffs, three Chinese govt agencies showed that China has no intention of backing down in the trade war that Trump began this week with his own steep tariffs on imports from around […]
