Iowa teacher promised extra credits to students if they donate to her GoFundMe to fund her travel to Ecuador. An Iowa substitute teacher has been fired from her post for allegedly pressuring her students to help fund her “medical mission” to Ecuador. Stephanie Mullaley promised them extra credit for donating to her GoFundMe page. Iowa…
Indian man pleads guilty to faking a robbery to get a store clerk his U visa in South Carolina. A new U-visa incident has been reported as 47-year-old Birenkumar Rameshbhai Patel, an Indian-origin man in Columbia, pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally obtain a U visa for a store clerk. The clerk has been deported…
A Chihuahua named Comando has become one of the most unusual members of Mexico’s National Guard. At 13 months old, the 7-kilogram dog is the smallest canine recruit in a force that has about 350 dogs, most of them much larger working breeds such as German Shepherds and Labradors. Comando has been fitted with miniature…
Pete Hegseth, Defence Secretary, US. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced plans to cut the number of generals and admirals in the US military by 20 per cent, while unveiling a new four-star command focused on autonomous and robotic warfare.According to news agency AP, Hegseth made the announcements during his “State of the Force”…
cannabisRepresentative image When Corrine and Doug Thomas bought a property in Humboldt County, California, in 2021, they expected to take ownership of a home and land. Instead, they inherited a legal dispute connected to the previous owner’s alleged cannabis operation. County officials sought more than $1 million in penalties against the couple, along with roughly…
A Connecticut man paid $35 for a small blue-and-white porcelain bowl at a yard sale near New Haven in 2020, unaware that he had stumbled upon an exceptionally rare Chinese imperial-era artefact. The unnamed antiques enthusiast suspected the bowl might be special and later sent photographs to Sotheby’s for an evaluation. Specialists identified it as…
After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists explored an unusual way of dealing with radioactive contamination by using plants to absorb radionuclides from the environment. Sunflowers emerged as a promising candidate because their roots can take up certain radioactive elements, including cesium and strontium, from contaminated water. Experiments near Chernobyl showed that sunflowers could remove…
Kai Cenat (Image Via Getty) Kai Cenat has responded publicly after streamer Reginald “Reggie,” also known as “Lil Rodney Son,” made serious allegations involving him and fellow streamer RaKai. During a livestream, Reggie raised claims about RaKai and accused Kai of knowing about an alleged incident. RaKai has denied the allegations, while Kai has now…
A six-month trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations cost British Transport Police (BTP) £320,786 and scanned more than 500,000 faces, but it produced just one alert from the police watchlist. That alert turned out to be a false identification, with no arrest resulting directly from the technology during the trial period. The…
File photo: Second judge blocks $100,000 visa fee A second US federal judge has blocked US President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, dealing another legal setback to the administration’s attempt to sharply increase the cost of the programme.US district judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California, ruled that…
