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File photo: California Governor Gavin Newsom (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of 300 California National Guard members to Oregon, a move that Governor Gavin Newsom condemned as “a breathtaking abuse of the law and power.” The deployment comes just a day after a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration’s…

Economist Justin Wolfers said H-1B is a main ingredient required to bake economy cake in the US. Australian economist Justin Wolfers, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, came under MAGA fire as he has been speaking in support of the H-1B visa program that allows US companies to hire skilled workers from…

Florida’s Palm Bay councilman Chandler Langevin has come under fire for his anti-India comments. As Florida’s Palm Bay Council is up in arms against councilman Chandler Langevin and calling him a cancer which should be removed immediately after he attacked the Indian-American community, several politicians came forward to condemn Langevin’s racism. Republican Senator and former…

IRCC says 47,000 foreign students may now be in Canada illegally. Canada has as many as 47,000 foreign students who are at present in the country illegally, the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada revealed at a House of Commons committee. They entered the country as students but then they may have violated their terms of…

Suchir Balaji’s parents start petition to rename AI Act after their son. Suchir Balaji’s father has started a petition to rename SB 53 which is California’s Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, to ‘Suchir Balaji Whistleblower Act’. Balaji Ramamurthy said Suchir stood up against a giant corporation and renaming the Act after Suchir will serve…

Zayed Charity Run hits Rio on October 5, uniting thousands for 5km/10km races — funds raised support vulnerable children and families/ AI-generated image for illustrative purposes The Zayed Charity Run arrives in Rio de Janeiro on October 5, 2025, marking the event’s first stop in South America and bringing thousands of runners together to race,…

Donald Trump Jr is frustrated over buddy Gentry Beach who drops his name in other countries to develop businesses there. A Texas hedge fund manager, Gentry Beach, known pretty well in business circles as he’s described as an ally of the Trump administration, has become a source of embarrassment. Beach drops the President’s eldest son,…

Pakistani-origin influencer says he’s facing casual racism in Canada as everyone thinks he’s an Indian. Pakistani-origin influencer Junaid Akram alleged that growing up in the Gulf as a Pakistani, he is not new to racism, but he expected things to be better in Canada; however, he now faces casual racism as Canadians think he’s an…

Exiled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was hospitalised in critical condition after being poisoned at his residence near Moscow, according to a report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights released on Thursday.Al-Assad, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was rushed to an emergency room on September 20 and spent nine days in the…

Shares of streaming platform Netflix have tumbled almost 5% over the past 5 trading sessions ever since Tesla CEO Elon Musk has started urging his followers to boycott the company and cancel their subscriptions.Netflix shares fell on Friday, marking their biggest weekly decline since April, even as the broader market rallied. Though major indices rose…