Category: World

Ten Colombian former soldiers were among the suspects arrested after an improvised landmine killed six Mexican troops in a drug cartel heartland this week, authorities said Friday. Arrests of Colombian ex-soldiers expose links to Mexican cartels Their capture shone a spotlight on the growing involvement of foreign ex-military personnel with Mexican drug traffickers. More than 40 […]

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he will raise steel import tariffs from 25 per cent to 50 per cent, increasing pressure on global producers and toughening the trade war. President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S. Steel Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin.(AP) “We are going to be imposing […]

The U.S. government’s list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” that includes hundreds of communities, both red and blue, is confounding critics. They have noticed the list included misspellings, communities with small immigrant populations, and those with strong support for cooperation with federal authorities. What is a ‘sanctuary jurisdiction’ and how was the US list of them made? Jessica […]

* Harvard’s US-funded defense projects totaled $180 million in recent years, study shows Trump administration cut an estimated $180 million in Harvard’s defense projects * Funding cuts affect military medical and scientific research, Govini analysis shows * Harvard sues, claiming cuts violate free-speech rights By Mike Stone WASHINGTON, – When the Trump administration cut federal funding […]

Washington, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City are under heightened alert as the National Weather Service (NWS) issued Tornado Watch, effective until midnight EDT on Friday. The warning covers parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.  Several parts New Jersey, Washington DC and Baltimore were under tornado alert on Friday(Unsplash) The watch, announced […]

X, platform formerly known as Twitter, was down for thousands worldwide. Several social media users reported issues with posts, replies and DMs. The Elon Musk-led company is yet to respond to the outage. Downdetector, a platform that tracks online outages, showed over 35,000 reports in the US at the time of writing this story.  X, platform […]

US President Donald Trump on Friday said that he will no longer be “Mr NICE GUY” with China on trade, accusing the country of breaking its agreement with the United States in a social media post. US President Donald Trump holds an umbrella as he exits Air Force One upon arrival at Allegheny County Airport in […]

By Andrew Chung US Supreme Court lets Trump revoke humanitarian legal status for migrants -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump’s administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president’s drive to step up deportations. The […]

May 31, 2025 02:22 AM IST Loretta Swit, famed for her role as Maj. Margaret Houlihan, on MASH, has died at 87.  Loretta Swit, the beloved actress and lifelong animal rights advocate, best remembered for her role as Maj. Margaret ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan, on the iconic CBS series M*A*S*H, has passed away at the age of […]

PBS filed suit Friday against President Donald Trump and other administration officials to block his order stripping federal funding from the 330-station public television system, three days after NPR did the same for its radio network. PBS suing Trump administration over defunding, three days after NPR filed similar case In its lawsuit, PBS relies on similar […]