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[ad_1] Picture source: White House DJ Daniel, the Texas cancer-survivor teen who was sworn in as an honorary secret service agent by US president Donald Trump, is now facing three new tumours. DJ was first diagnosed in 2018 and given only five months to live. To honour his lifelong dream, he was sworn in as an honorary secret service member during Donald Trump’s address to Congress on March 4. Speaking to Fox 7 Austin, DJ’s father admitted the emotional toll has been heavy. “It’s rough, there isn’t a class that can teach you how to deal with it. You’re hearing that your child has a nasty disease,” he said. But he also said that DJ’s journey is about more than just illness — it’s about spreading kindness and unity.White House also posted on X, sharing the news. It wrote, "We’re […]

[ad_1] Senator Joni Ernst (Image credits: AP) Republican senator Joni Ernst faced boos and groans from constituents during a tense town hall in Parkersburg, Iowa, on Friday after defending a Republican-backed spending and tax cut package, dubbed as “the big, beautiful bill” by US President Trump, which includes $700 billion in cuts, including significant reductions to Medicaid.Speaking at a high school in north-central Iowa, Ernst was responding to a constituent who warned that people could die without health coverage. “People are not... well, we all are going to die,” Ernst replied, drawing audible groans from the crowd. She added, “For heaven’s sake, folks,” and stressed that the proposal would protect “those that are most vulnerable” and eligible for Medicaid.The controversial legislation narrowly passed the House last week by a single vote and now moves to the Senate. Ernst acknowledged that […]

[ad_1] US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth (AP) SINGAPORE: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday reassured allies in the Indo-Pacific that they will not be left alone to face increasing military and economic pressures from China.He said Washington will bolster its defences overseas to counter what the Pentagon sees as rapidly developing threats by Beijing, particularly in its aggressive stance toward Taiwan.China has conducted numerous exercises to test what a blockade would look like of the self-governing island, which Beijing claims as its own and the US has pledged to defend.China's army "is rehearsing for the real deal", Hegseth said in a keynote speech at a security conference in Singapore."We are not going to sugarcoat it the threat China poses is real. And it could be imminent." China has a stated goal of having its military be able to take […]

[ad_1] US Supreme Court (Image credits: AP) The US Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with ending temporary legal protections for more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The decision raises the number of migrants newly at risk of deportation to nearly 1 million.The justices lifted a lower-court order that had blocked the administration’s effort to terminate the humanitarian parole program. In a separate case earlier this month, the court allowed the removal of about 350,000 Venezuelan migrants, marking the second time the court has sided with the Trump administration in its push to roll back Biden-era immigration policies.The court issued its order without explanation, which is typical on the emergency docket. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, warning of the serious consequences the decision could have on affected migrants.The […]

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Google on Friday urged a US judge to reject the notion of making it spin off its Chrome browser to weaken its dominance in online search.Rival attorneys made their final arguments before US District Court Judge Amit Mehta, who is considering "remedies" to impose after making a landmark decision last year that Google maintained an illegal monopoly in search.US government attorneys have called on Mehta to order Google divest itself of Chrome browser, contending that artificial intelligence is poised to ramp up the tech giant's dominance as the go-to window into the internet.They also want Google barred from agreements with partners such as Apple and Samsung to distribute its search tools, which was the focus of the suit against the Silicon Valley internet giant.Three weeks of testimony ended early in May, with Friday devoted to rival sides arguing […]

[ad_1] Trump reacts to a question of pardoning Sean Diddy who is facing trial in sex trafficking case. President Donald Trump in his Oval Office press conference Friday said Diddy used to like him a lot when he was asked whether he would consider pardoning Diddy. "I would certainly look af the facts. I haven't been watching it too closely. I haven;t spoken to him in years," Trump said adding that if somebody was mistreated, "whether they like me or don't like me, it wouldn't have any impact". "Nobody asked, but I know people are thinking about it I think people have been very close to asking," Trump said. Diddy's trial is now in its third week as the rapper faces federal charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution.Diddy's ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testified over four […]

[ad_1] US crackdown on Chinese students' visa is seen as a victory of the Bannon camp. Donald Trump's former aide Steve Bannon shot to the centerstage Friday as the Trump administration's recent visa decisions were seen as a victory of the Bannon camp. Bannon, an avid hater of the H-1B visa programs that allows US companies to hire foreign talent, quickly reacted to the accolades, as he wrote, "Next Victory: H1B Visa Scam". A POLITICO report gave the verdict that it was the Bannon camp's win over the tech camp as Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the administration would now revoke the visas of Chinese students. The Silicon Valley camp would definitely not like this decision as 70 per cent of Silicon Valley's highly educated tech employees are from overseas and China supplies more than any country except […]

[ad_1] Megha Vemuri was banned from participating in Friday's event at MIT (Photo: Boston Globe) Indian-American student Megha Vemuri was barred from the commencement event Friday after the class president used her platform to speak for Palestine a day before. Vemuri was scheduled to be the marshal for Friday's commencement ceremony but MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles sent her an email Friday morning saying that she could not attend the event and she and her family were banned from campus for most of the day, Boston Globe reported. “Participation in Commencement activities is a privilege,” Nobles wrote in the email. “You deliberately and repeatedly misled Commencement organizers. While we acknowledge your right to free expression, your decision to lead a protest from the stage, disrupting an important institute ceremony, was a violation of MIT’s time, place and manner rules for campus […]

[ad_1] Elon Musk sported a black eye at the Oval Office press meet and blamed his son X for it. Elon Musk's drug addiction dominated Friday's news cycle as New York Times published a threadbare revelation of how much Elon Musk is overdosing on Ketamine, a drug that he earlier acknowledged to have used under prescription. At his joint press conference with President Donald Trump which was supposed to be his farewell from the White House, Elon Musk was made uncomfortable by the drug question. But more uncomfortable were those who spotted that Elon had a black eye. "New York Times, is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on Russiagate? Is it the same organization? I think it is!" Elon Musk asked defiantly when the drug question popped up. "I think the judge just […]

[ad_1] A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled at one of Moscow's busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian authorities to revive the legacy of the brutal Soviet dictator. The sculpture shows Stalin surrounded by beaming workers and children with flowers. It was installed at the Taganskaya station to mark the 90th anniversary of the Moscow Metro, the sprawling subway known for its mosaics, chandeliers and other ornate decorations that was built under Stalin. It replaces an earlier tribute that was removed in the decade following Stalin's 1953 death in a drive to root out his "cult of personality" and reckon with decades of repression marked by show trials, nighttime arrests and millions killed or thrown into prison camps as "enemies of the people." Muscovites have given differing responses to the unveiling earlier this month, with some recalling […]