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[ad_1] Picture credit: Blue Origin Singer Katy Perry joined a Blue Origin flight on Monday alongside five other women, making headlines as part of the first all-female space crew in over 60 years. Blue Origin’s well-known New Shepard spacecraft can carry up to six passengers on a short journey beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, allowing them to experience weightlessness and see the planet from space. As of the latest launch on Monday morning, only 58 people have travelled more than 60 miles above Earth with Blue Origin since it began crewed missions in 2021.On May 19, 2024, Indian-born entrepreneur Gopi Thotakura made history by becoming the first Indian citizen to take part in a space tourism flight. How much would it cost for an ordinary person to take a similar trip? A steep price tag For those hoping to experience space […]

[ad_1] Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who was detained by US immigration authorities in March over "antisemitism on campus", has described the conditions in the detention facility as “inhumane” and “unsafe.” Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was arrested by US immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) agents near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 25. She was walking to meet friends to break her Ramadan fast when masked officers surrounded her. “I was speaking to my mother on the phone when several men approached me on the street and then surrounded me and I screamed,” she said in court filings, according to USA today. Ozturk was taken without being allowed to call her lawyer. “They didn’t let me make any calls, and they asked me to put the phone into flight mode,” she said. “It was an isolated […]

[ad_1] US president Donald Trump blamed former president Joe Biden’s immigration policies for the 2023 murder of Maryland mother Rachel Morin.Trump on Monday in a social media post said, “Moments ago, the illegal criminal, who was allowed into our country by crooked Joe Biden, was convicted of the heinous murder of Rachel Morin. Rachel was a beautiful mother of five from Maryland, and her life was taken at the hands of a monster who should have never been here in the first place."."The fake news should be focusing on the beautiful life and tragic death of this Maryland mother, rather than the so-called “Maryland father,” who is actually an MS-13 gang member and foreign terrorist from El Salvador. We will never forget Rachel Morin, and are committed to protecting women like her across our country. We will deport illegal murderers, […]

[ad_1] Kilmar Abrego Garcia won't be returned to the US as Salvador president Nayib Bukele said the idea is preposterous to him. The White House meeting between President Donald Trump and El Salvador president Nayib Bukele Monday made one thing clear that Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador won't be returned to the US. After this hit the headlines and the Trump administration had to face brickbats for it, the White House slammed the media and said describing Kilmar as a Maryland man is wrong as he is an illegal immigrant. What is the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia?On March 12 this year, Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen but who was living in the US for the past 14 years, was detained by ICE and was deported to El Salvador as the Trump administration identified […]

[ad_1] Donald Trump met El Salvador president Nayib Bukele Monday. The Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and El Salvador president Nayib Bukele involved a lot of criminals and also the Maryland father who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador along with the Tren de Aragua prisoners owing to an administrative error. The Supreme Court has ordered that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has to be returned to the US but Monday's meeting between Trump and Bukele made it clear that no one is concerned about that. In fact, Trump wants to send US prisoners to El Salvador if the law permits. El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), located in Tecoluca, is a massive, high-security prison designed to house the country’s most dangerous criminals, including gang members and those accused of terrorism. Opened in January 2023, it’s the largest prison in […]

[ad_1] Trump says he is looking to give tariff exemptions to some of the car companies. President Donald Trump Monday said he's looking to provide 'short-lived' tariff exemptions for some of the car companies as they need a little bit of time to switch from parts made in Canada, Mexico and other places. "I am a very flexible person. I don't change my mind but I am flexible. And you have to be because you can't have just a wall and you go along it, sometimes you have to go around it, under it or above it," Trump said on being asked if there will be any product exemptions for Apple."I speak to Tim Cook. I helped Tim Cook recently. I don't want to hurt anybody. But the end result is we are going to get to the position of […]

[ad_1] Arson suspect Cody Balmer's social media history offers the investigators clues to his unhinged past. Cody Balmer, the suspect arrested for setting Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro's house on fire, has a disturbing social media footprint, including a photo of him pointing a gun at the camera, appearing to breathe fire etc. “Biden supporters shouldn’t exist,” he wrote in a Facebook post in January 2021. “Where were you his first run? Well aware of the trash he is. As for the second, still knew what scum he is. Now why did y’all forget? What, because he did?” he posted on Facebook in January 2021. “RIP Joe Biden… whoops that’s in May. #notmypresident,” he wrote in another post, while another read, “Knowing is half the battle.. the other half is extreme violence.” He also attacked Donald Trump in his posts. The […]

[ad_1] India stands apart in Trump’s Asia policy. (AI image for representation only) US President Donald Trump’s economic team is rapidly advancing a new global strategy to box in China - not just with tariffs, but with alliances. At the center of this plan? India.Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, emerging as Trump’s surprise lead negotiator, has outlined what insiders are calling a “grand encirclement” - a diplomatic and economic coalition with India, Japan, Vietnam, and South Korea to isolate Beijing and weaken its grip on global trade, a Bloomberg report said.“They’ve been good military allies, not perfect economic allies. At the end of the day, we can probably reach an agreement with them. Then we can approach China as a group,” Bessent said.Why it mattersThis isn’t just about economics - It’s geopolitics in disguise. Trump’s escalating tariffs on China (some over […]

[ad_1] Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez board the Blue Origin rocket ahead of their 11-minute flight to space today. Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King and Kerianne Flynn flew to space today for 11 minutes in the Blue Origin NS-31. The no-pilot automatic rocket took off at 9.30am from Texas and will pass just above the Karman line, which is generally regarded as the edge of space and is an invisible boundary at a height of 62 miles. The crew then took parachutes and landed in the Texas desert. Oprah was there at the station to witness the lift-off.This is the first female-only crew since Valentina Tereshkova launched into orbit on a solo mission in 1963. So, they all got designer space suits designed by Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, the co-founders of Monse, and also the […]

[ad_1] German lawmakers will gather in early May to elect Friedrich Merz as chancellor after his conservative bloc sealed a coalition agreement with the main centre-left party, the Bundestag said Monday. Both steps were expected to be a formality after Merz's conservative bloc, the CDU/CSU, and his future governing partners, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), settled on a coalition agreement last week. BERLIN: German lawmakers will gather in early May to elect Friedrich Merz as chancellor after his conservative bloc sealed a coalition agreement with the main centre-left party, the Bundestag said Monday.The president of the assembly, Julia Kloeckner was "preparing to convene the German Bundestag for the election of the federal chancellor... on Tuesday, May 6", the parliament said in a statement.The date was "subject to the parties' approval of the coalition agreement" and Merz's nomination by the German […]