BBQ fork, pizza cutter and driver’s licence: Minnesota man allegedly poses as FBI agent to free Luigi Mangione; arrested

A Minnesota man armed with a BBQ fork and a pizza cutter was arrested at a Brooklyn jail on Wednesday after allegedly impersonating an FBI agent in an attempt to bust high-profile inmate Luigi Mangione out of custody.According to a criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York, Mark Anderson was arrested at … Read more

Helicopter crashes into Meramec River at Missouri state park; all passengers escape with ‘minor injuries’

A helicopter with four people crashed into powerlines and ended up in the Meramec River at Meramec State Park in Sullivan, Missouri, around 1 p.m. Thursday, officials said.All four occupants made it out of the river safely and suffered “minor injuries”, according to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. They were under medical care at … Read more

Indian driver on student visa jailed in Australia for $200,000 real estate scam, impersonated law firm to defraud homebuyer

A 28-year-old Indian man in Australia on student visa, working as an Uber driver, has been arrested and jailed for a calculated fraud in which he impersonated a law firm and created an entity out of thin air to convince a prospective homebuyer to transfer money to him. The Sydney Morning Herald reported the person’s … Read more

‘They came here, had babies’: Texas gov called out for H-1B crackdown; reminded he praised Indian investment in 2024

US podcaster and influencer Kyle Seraphin called out Texas Governor Greg Abbott for his H-1B crackdown in Texas, not because he does not support it but as it does not serve the purpose now. Seraphin said it is too late and too little to freeze H-1B hiring in state agencies and universities after what Abbott … Read more

Devastated UK family watches 5-year-old dying from rare childhood dementia; hundreds of seizures daily |

Holly has a rare, fatal childhood dementia causing seizures, loss of movement, speech, sight, and independence./ Image: SWNS A five-year-old girl from Essex is living with a rare and fatal form of childhood dementia that will gradually strip away her ability to walk, talk, see and eat independently. Holly Nayler has CLN2 Batten disease, a … Read more

Can you travel to Puerto Rico with an expired H-1B stamping? Immigration attorney explains when it’s risk-free

Amid the ongoing volatility over the visa situation in the US, the one rule of thumb that immigration experts have been reiterating is that H-1B visa holders should not travel outside the US. Replying to all travel-related queries in his latest podcast, immigration lawyer Rahul Reddy said it is risk-free to travel anywhere inside the … Read more

Random Musing: A brief history of the Church of England (as it gets its first woman Archbishop of Canterbury) | World News

In Yes Minister, when Jim Hacker finds out that Italian terrorists have access to British-made weapons, Sir Humphrey Appleby tries to mollify him by pointing out it’s not their department’s problem. British weapons in the hands of foreign terrorists were outside the Ministry of Administrative Affairs’ jurisdiction. Probably a Defence Ministry problem, or a Foreign … Read more

Diplomatic tension after Kash Patel claims FBI nabbed Ryan Wedding; Mexico says drug lord ‘surrendered’

A diplomatic tension has been triggered between the US and Mexico after FBI director Kash Patel claimed that his agents arrested drug lord Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympian, in Mexico. Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum said there was no US involvement and Wedding actually surrendered. She said she won’t fight over this with Patel, but … Read more

Do Americans think China will overtake the US … and their lives would ‘not get worse? Here’s what survey says

At least three-quarters of Americans believed China would eventually overtake the United States in global power and influence, highlighting growing public anxiety over the shifting balance between the world’s two largest economies, a national poll by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace showed. Moreover, nearly 62% said that their lives “would not” get worse if … Read more