US immigration crackdown: Donald Trump suspends green card lottery; what led to the step?

US immigration crackdown: Donald Trump suspends green card lottery; what led to the step?

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has suspended the diversity green card lottery programme, saying it allowed the suspect in the deadly Brown University and MIT shootings to enter the United States, as his administration moved to tighten legal immigration channels following the attacks.Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem…

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Karoline Leavitt shares ‘behind the scenes’ photos amid Vanity Fair shoot scrutiny – National

Karoline Leavitt shares ‘behind the scenes’ photos amid Vanity Fair shoot scrutiny – National

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has shared new photos from “behind the scenes” before a live interview on Wednesday. Leavitt, 28, shared the photos on Instagram — taken before she participated in a television interview outside the White House — the same day a Vanity Fair article featuring pictures of members of staff in…

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Goodbye war on drugs? Donald Trump tells feds to go easy on marijuana users – and there is a financial angle | World News

Goodbye war on drugs? Donald Trump tells feds to go easy on marijuana users – and there is a financial angle | World News

President Donald Trump signs an executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) For decades, marijuana has occupied a strange place in American politics. It is widely used and culturally mainstream, yet under federal law it has…

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Small Alberta business owner caught up in a Trump tariff nightmare

Small Alberta business owner caught up in a Trump tariff nightmare

It’s called Ranch by Design: a small family-owned company in Lacombe, Alta., selling western wear and tack supplies to customers in Canada and the United States. Owner Beth Latwaitis estimates about 15 per cent of  her customers are American and are attracted to buy from her because there aren’t many stores like hers that sell…

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Can Trump rename the Kennedy Center? Board vote sparks constitutional debate

Can Trump rename the Kennedy Center? Board vote sparks constitutional debate

👉 Visit the Official SleepLean Website A board handpicked by President Donald Trump voted Thursday to rename the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts as the Trump–Kennedy Center, inserting the sitting president’s name alongside one of the nation’s most revered political legacies. Within hours, the centre’s website reflected the change — even…

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Trump administration proposals aim to ban transgender care for minors – National

Trump administration proposals aim to ban transgender care for minors – National

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump administration restrictions on transgender Americans. The sweeping proposals — the most significant moves this administration has taken so far to restrict the use of puberty blockers, hormone…

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10 children and 2 caregivers: Inside Elon Musk’s 0 million failed school experiment

10 children and 2 caregivers: Inside Elon Musk’s $600 million failed school experiment

Ad Astra has two caregivers, serves graham crackers and apples for snacks and has personalised cots Elon Musk, is the richest man in the world with a net worth that recently reached $600 billion. Space, automobile, AI, social media, administration, there is no progressing industry he hasn’t tapped into and excelled at. But what many…

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Multiple deaths after business jet crashes in North Carolina: authorities – National

Multiple deaths after business jet crashes in North Carolina: authorities – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A business jet with six people aboard crashed Thursday at a regional airport in North Carolina used by NASCAR teams and Fortune 500 companies, erupting in a large fire and killing multiple people, authorities said. Flight records show the plane was registered to a company run by…

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Most Canadians support oil and gas expansion, differ on priorities: Ipsos – National

Most Canadians support oil and gas expansion, differ on priorities: Ipsos – National

New data suggests the majority of Canadians support efforts to expand oil and gas development, including expanding and building pipelines — but within that data, their support shifts when it comes to the specifics of how to do that, according to Ipsos polling. That finding comes as Prime Minister Mark Carney has been working to…

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Finland PM apologizes to Asian nations after beauty queen racism scandal – National

Finland PM apologizes to Asian nations after beauty queen racism scandal – National

Finland’s prime minister Petteri Orpo apologized to Asian nations on Wednesday in an attempt to stifle a growing controversy over racist images shared by members of his government’s four-party coalition in solidarity with a beauty pageant winner who was stripped of her title. The scandal arose earlier this month when the former Miss Finland winner,…

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