A federal judge has temporarily stopped President Donald Trump’s administration from disbursing payments through a new $1.776 billion settlement fund intended for Trump allies who claim they were targeted by a “weaponised” government. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema, sitting in Alexandria, Virginia, issued the order on Friday, blocking the administration from moving ahead with the … Read more
Four months after its high-profile establishment, the official financial fund for US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace sits completely empty. According to a report by the UK-based newspaper, Financial Times (FT), of the $7 billion that had been pledged by the board’s members to fund reconstruction in Gaza, not a single dollar has been … Read more
Indian man pleads guilty to smuggling Indians illegally from Canada to the US. 22-year-old Shivam, an Indian man, pleaded guilty in the US for conspiring in a scheme to smuggle Indians across the US-Canada border. He was indicted in 2025 and now after he pleaded guilty, he would be sentenced on September 4. Going by … Read more
Students attending the graduation ceremony at North Carolina State University Wilson College of Textiles received a pleasant surprise after an Indian-origin entrepreneur and his wife announced they would pay off the student loans of at least 176 graduating students. The announcement by alumnus and donor Anil Kochhar came during Wilson College’s commencement ceremony on Friday … Read more
At least 11 people were injured on Saturday (local time) in what authorities described as a “possible vessel explosion” near Haulover Sandbar, a popular tourist destination close to Miami Beach in US’s Florida. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said it received a report of a “possible explosion” in the vicinity of Haulover Sandbar. Teams of the Florida … Read more
Indian-origin Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy has secured the party’s nomination for governor of Ohio after a decisive victory in Tuesday’s primary, cementing his position as a rising force in the Republican Party and a prominent Trump-aligned figure in the US’s Midwestern politics. Ramaswamy, a 40-year-old biotech entrepreneur from the Cincinnati area, defeated his challenger, Casey … Read more
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday announced a sweeping investigation into alleged abuse of the H-1B visa programme, targeting nearly 30 North Texas businesses and escalating a probe his office began earlier this year. Among the entities to be investigated are IT and consulting firms. In an official press release, Paxton’s office said the … Read more
The US’ Secretary of Health and Donald Trump aide, Robert F Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr) has often positioned himself as a firebrand critic of long-established scientific consensus, which he describes as “corrupt”. He doubts the veracity of vaccinations and pushes a discredited link between vaccines and autism. That being said, the figurehead of the Make … Read more
After years of steadily worsening odds in the annual H-1B lottery, American businesses in 2026 experienced a notable turnaround in selection rates for high-skilled foreign workers through the visa programme. The approval rate of the highly sought-after visas has jumped to its highest levels in recent years. In several instances, the H-1B visa approval rate … Read more
Police in California’s San Diego unleashed a K9 dog at a man who allegedly stabbed a parking attendant in the head with a broken wooden crane. The measure was reportedly taken after the suspect refused to cooperate with the responding police officers. The cops fired multiple non-lethal rounds at the man before eventually deploying a … Read more