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US President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has stepped into election disputes ahead of Tuesday’s US midterm elections, breaking with decades of practice aimed at keeping federal law enforcement agencies from appearing to favour a political party or candidate.The department has filed lawsuits challenging election procedures in California and Alaska, raising concerns among critics that its…

Indian-origin Srishti Tarana Sharma  charged in US over pro-Palestine threats at Michigan university/Image: AP An Indian-origin woman, Srishti Tarana Sharma, 23, is among four additional people charged in a federal investigation into alleged threats, vandalism and intimidation targeting Jewish organisations, University of Michigan officials and businesses perceived to have links to Israel.US Attorney Jerome F…

Canadian CEO David Morton, his wife and two daughters were attacked by three masked men. One attacker went to a hospital with gunshot wound, was questioned but then was allowed to leave. Toronto police faced massive criticism after they decided not to arrest the man who was admitted to a hospital with a gunshot wound…

A family living in London has discovered a rare mounted taxidermy head of an extinct thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, inside a box stored under a bed. The specimen had been forgotten in storage for decades. It is one of only three known mounted thylacine heads in the world. It is due to…

US District Judge sentenced Sanchez and ordered him to forfeit more than $8.2 million (AI image) A 30-year-old California accountant who persuaded people to invest millions of dollars in plans to build small homes on residential properties has been sentenced to 63 months in federal prison after admitting that he used their money for risky…

A Virginia couple who transformed the gravel backyard of their century-old home into a garden for their two toddlers have found themselves caught in a property-boundary dispute after a neighbouring property owner claimed part of the land belonged to him. Brittany Ellerbe and her husband bought the house in Petersburg in 2025 and turned the…

Court found the child well-adjusted and saw no reason to relocate him.(AI image) An Indiana father who lost his $350,000-a-year job after 26 years and moved to Virginia for new employment has lost his appeal against a court decision giving his former wife sole legal custody and primary physical custody of their son.Scotty G Nabors…

PC: Facebook/Twistology Pretzels A bag of pretzels became the starting point for a small business in Fargo, North Dakota, where Connor Arbach began making his own versions of the familiar snack. According to the North Dakota Department of Agriculture, at 12, he was developing flavours, preparing batches and finding customers willing to pay $2 for…

Pop star Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, have spent more than a decade working to make mental-health support more accessible to young people. Their efforts reached a new milestone in May 2026, when the Born This Way Foundation announced that more than 100,000 Be There Certificates had been earned worldwide through a free…