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Howard Schultz, the billionaire former chief executive of Starbucks, announced that he and his wife have moved from their longtime home in Seattle, Washington, where they lived for 40 years, to Miami, Florida.This comes after lawmakers in Washington approved legislation to impose a new income tax on high earners.Schultz said in a post on LinkedIn…
CNN anchor Abby Phillip issued an apology after she stirred a major controversy as she suggested that the ISIS-inspired attack in New York City last Saturday was an attack against socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani. “Two Republicans say Muslims don’t belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the House…
A major row broke out after the federal administration contradicted the claims of the family members of Sunny Naqvi that she was detained for around 43 hours after arriving at a Chicago airport, though Naqvi is a US citizen. The Department of Homeland Security said the claims were blatantly false. Naqvi was referred for a…
A satirical statue depicting US President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a pose inspired by the film Titanic appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.The sculpture was titled “King of the World” and shows figures representing Trump and Epstein standing at the bow of a ship, recreating the…
Ever squashed a bug underfoot and wondered why it just keeps buzzing? Now, picture a car tyre rolling right over it; most critters would be crushed, but not this diabolical ironclad beetle. Research published in Nature has found this unusual desert dweller from the US southwest shrugs off forces that would flatten other insects, thanks…
NASA‘s Van Allen Probe A, a 600-kilogram satellite launched back in 2012, is plummeting back to Earth after 14 years studying the planet’s hazardous radiation belts. Amid headlines screaming “NASA satellite crash,” fears of destruction grip the public, yet experts insist the threat is minimal. Most of the spacecraft will incinerate in the atmosphere due…
Expedition 74 crew members, aboard the International Space Station (ISS), are gearing up for a pivotal spacewalk while advancing microgravity research. NASA flight engineers Jessica Meir and Chris Williams prepped spacesuits in the Quest airlock, cleaning cooling loops and reviewing procedures for the 18 March extravehicular activity (EVA). They’ll install kit modifications and route cables…
At first glance, the Caspian Sea appears as an ocean stretching endlessly to the horizon, lapping the shores of five nations. Yet scientists classify it not as a sea, but as Earth’s largest lake, an immense inland body spanning roughly 371,000 square kilometres, surpassing Japan in size. Straddling Europe and Asia, it borders Russia, Azerbaijan,…
An Indian-origin food brand based in New York has come under fire online after users noticed that the idol of Goddess Laxmi had been removed from its packaging.The controversy began after a post went viral on X, where the account Indian-American, known for highlighting issues related to Hindu Americans, called out the brand for the…
North Korea has expressed support for the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader of Iran, while condemning what it described as the “illegal” military attack by the United States and Israel that killed Iran’s previous leader. A spokesperson for North Korea’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Pyongyang respected Tehran’s decision to…
