A pregnant woman from Ghana and her young son have been held at Washington Dulles International Airport for more than a week, according to lawyers who say the pair have been kept in a windowless detention room despite serious health concerns.38-year-old Annabella Gyasi arrived at Dulles Airport last Tuesday with her four-year-old son after travelling…

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Deep beneath the Swiss countryside, inside a ring of machinery nearly four miles across that has been running since the 1970s, physicists have been chasing something they could not see, could not measure, and could not fully explain. It showed up only in the results: particles straying from their paths, beams degrading unexpectedly, experiments falling…

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Former US Attorney General Pam Bondi told House lawmakers on Friday that convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell should “die in prison” as questions continue over the handling of files linked to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.Bondi made the remarks during a four-hour transcribed interview before the House Oversight Committee, which is currently investigating the Department of…

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Growth figures say Canada has slipped into what many experts would call a technical recession. Canada entered into what many experts would call a technical recession after it reported two consecutive quarters of contraction in economic growth. Statistics Canada said real gross domestic product fell 0.1 per cent on an annualized basis in the first…

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A Note of Discord: US divided on the proposed Trump $250 bill TOI correspondent from Washington: America, a republic founded in rebellion against monarchy and once faintly embarrassed about personality cults, is now contemplating commemorating its 250th birthday by placing Donald Trump’s face on a brand-new $250 bill — a denomination so oddly specific it…

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Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia reacted to the viral video showing a group of Indian tourists performing ‘Garba’ on an airport tarmac in Vietnam. He said culture is more about behaviour than public display.The viral video circulating across Instagram, Reddit, X and other social media platforms, shows several Indian travellers dancing in a circle near a…

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Less than a year after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, his widow Erika Kirk has denied rumours that she has moved on and started a new relationship.The controversy began after online conspiracy theorist Collin Scott Campbell claimed on X that Erika Kirk had been seen getting “very intimate” with casino heir…

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An illegal immigrant from India has been jailed for 10 years in US after paying human traffickers to abuse minor girls at a Nebraska hotel.Kavankumar Patel, a 27-year-old citizen of Gujarat, India, who is living in the US illegally, was sentenced this week in a federal court in Omaha, Nebraska. The decade-long prison term was…

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Indian-origin woman from California met a catastrophic accident during her birthday trip to Mexico earlier this month. Nina Bakhshi, an Indian-origin Californian makeup artist, had the most harrowing birthday trip this year as she chose a guided ATV (all-terrain vehicle) tour of Cenote La Noria in Mexico, where she fell from a bridge and suffered…

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The history of science is crowded with people whose ideas arrived before the rest of the field was ready for them. Tibor Gánti belonged somewhere in that uneasy category: respected in small circles, barely recognised outside them, and for years almost absent from wider discussions about how life began. His work circulated quietly through Hungarian…

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