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‘Bronx Girl’ or Yorktown Grad? NY Republican challenges AOC’s suburban roots with yearbook photo after Trump clash A latest social media fracas between President Donald Trump and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has drawn additional scrutiny after a New York state lawmaker challenged the congresswoman’s claims about her upbringing.The confrontation erupted when Ocasio-Cortez criticized Trump’s weekend strikes…

In a sharp escalation of tensions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has threatened to take legal action against SpaceX over rocket debris and environmental contamination near the U.S.-Mexico border. The warning comes after a SpaceX Starship rocket exploded during a ground test at the company’s Starbase site in South Texas, causing concern…

US President Donald Trump (Pic credit: AP) Donald Trump’s ambitious spending cut and border security package – the “big, beautiful bill” – is estimated to inject around $150 billion into the mass deportation agenda of the US leader in the four years of his second and final term – 15 times the current annual budget…

Death sentence in 1976: Mississippi executes longest-serving death row inmate, Richard Jordan, after 49 years Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving prisoner on Mississippi’s death row, nearly 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter in a failed ransom plot was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday.Jordan,a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran, received the injection at 6…

TAL MARDIKH: Syrian architect Abdel Aziz al Mohammed could barely recognise his war ravaged village when he returned after years away. Now, his meticulous documentation of the damage using a drone helps to rebuild it.“When I first came back, I was shocked by the extent of the destruction,” said Mohammed, 34.Walking through his devastated village…

Gunmen opened fire at a religious celebration in Mexico’s Guanajuato; 12 killed, at least 20 injured A religious event turned tragic in Mexico’s Irapuato city when gunmen opened fire during a celebration, killing 12 people and leaving at least 20 injured.The shooting occurred late Tuesday during the celebration festivities marking the Nativity of St John…

Ecuador’s most notorious drug lord ‘Fito’ recaptured after year-long manhunt ( Image credit: AP) Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced on Wednesday the recapture of José Adolfo Macías, alias “Fito,” the country’s most wanted fugitive and leader of the criminal gang ‘Los Choneros’.Macías was apprehended in his hometown of Manta, in what authorities described as a…

Truck hangs from collapsed bridge in China after landslide, driver rescued in daring operation (Video credit: Reuters) In a dramatic and heart-stopping incident caught on camera, a cargo truck was left dangling from a collapsed highway bridge in China’s southwestern Guizhou province after a landslide triggered by torrential rains struck on Tuesday morning, June 24.The…

(L-R) Zohran Kwame Mamdani with his parents Director Mira Nair, and Mahmood Mamdani (PTI Photo) In a sweeping upset, Indian-American lawmaker Zohran Kwame Mamdani has won the Democratic primary for New York City Mayor, defeating political heavyweight and former governor Andrew Cuomo. But long before Mamdani was hailed as a rising political star with Bernie…

File photo: US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had called him to offer assistance in dealing with the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel, but he redirected the conversation to focus on the war in Ukraine. “Vladimir…