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Senate Democrats and a few Republicans on Thursday blocked a major government funding package that needed to pass by 11.59 pm Friday, signalling that negotiations between President Trump and Senate Democrats still had a way to go before reaching a deal.A motion to advance the bill failed by a vote of 45-55, the Hill reported.Eight…

US President Donald Trump sent reporters on an unexpected guessing game after sharing an anecdote about a “very famous” friend for whom Ozempic apparently didn’t work—prompting amused denials from within his own administration. As journalists tried to decode the mystery, Vice President JD Vance jumped in to rule himself out, drawing laughter and briefly turning…

ICE agents reportedly laughed at a teenager who took life-saving medication to his 58-year-old father at a detention facility after the man was arrested while working at McDonald’s outside Minneapolis and later detained at a nearby facility.A video circulating on social media shows ICE agents arresting an old man and later during an interview with…

A 28-year-old Indian man in Australia on student visa, working as an Uber driver, has been arrested and jailed for a calculated fraud in which he impersonated a law firm and created an entity out of thin air to convince a prospective homebuyer to transfer money to him. The Sydney Morning Herald reported the person’s…

Aspen Kartier, a Twitch streamer, has been banned from Twitch after a disturbing video from one of her streams went viral on social media. The video caused an uproar on social media, with many people accusing the streamer of animal cruelty. Although Twitch has not issued an official statement, the ban came after the streamer…

US podcaster and influencer Kyle Seraphin called out Texas Governor Greg Abbott for his H-1B crackdown in Texas, not because he does not support it but as it does not serve the purpose now. Seraphin said it is too late and too little to freeze H-1B hiring in state agencies and universities after what Abbott…

A video circulating on social media shows two Muslim women being kicked and hit by a police officer in the Netherlands’ Utrecht. According to the Dutch News, the women later made a formal complaint about their treatment, their lawyer told the television current affairs programme Nieuwsuur on Wednesday evening.Footage circulating on social media showed one…

Amid the ongoing volatility over the visa situation in the US, the one rule of thumb that immigration experts have been reiterating is that H-1B visa holders should not travel outside the US. Replying to all travel-related queries in his latest podcast, immigration lawyer Rahul Reddy said it is risk-free to travel anywhere inside the…

Streamer Tectone addressed viral claims about a sexual assault-related court case, denying any criminal conviction or jail risk and stating the matter was a civil hearing. Fellow streamer Mizkif disputed his account, alleging serious findings, restraining orders, and NDAs involving Tectone’s ex-partners. Tectone has not responded to Mizkif’s latest statements, leaving the controversy unresolved. This…

In Yes Minister, when Jim Hacker finds out that Italian terrorists have access to British-made weapons, Sir Humphrey Appleby tries to mollify him by pointing out it’s not their department’s problem. British weapons in the hands of foreign terrorists were outside the Ministry of Administrative Affairs’ jurisdiction. Probably a Defence Ministry problem, or a Foreign…