When did AOC break up with long-term partner Riley Roberts? Ocasio-Cortez stopped wearing her engagement ring over 18 months ago

AOC secretly split from her partner Riley Roberts long before she went for egg freezing. After Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that she was going to freeze her eggs so that she could choose the right time to become a mother, speculations were rife about her relationship with Riley Roberts, her long-time boyfriend and partner. The…

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One-third of global farmland accounts for about two-thirds of agriculture-linked biodiversity and natural carbon-storage loss, a new study finds

Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland A single third of the world’s agricultural land is responsible for roughly two-thirds of all farming-related biodiversity loss and the loss of natural carbon storage, according to a global study published in Nature Food.The research, led by scientists from Leiden University’s Institute of…

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New York woman pleads guilty to trafficking Indians from Canada, says she picked people from border and dropped them off inside US for profit

New York woman pleads guilty to trafficking Indians into the US from Canada border. New York woman Stacey Taylor, 43, who was arrested and charged with human trafficking in 2025, has now pleaded guilty to her role in an international smuggling conspiracy that primarily brought Indians to the US through the US-Canada border. On January…

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New York, New Jersey declare August 15 ‘India Independence Day’ ahead of 80th anniversary

New York and New Jersey have issued separate proclamations for August 15 ahead of India’s 80th Independence Day. (Photo: @IndiainNewYork) New York and New Jersey have issued separate proclamations for August 15 ahead of India’s 80th Independence Day, recognising Indian-American contributions and ties between India and the United States.The Consulate General of India in New…

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In 1983, an Atlantic City widow rejected $1 million for her home; in 1994, a state agency offered $251,250 and threatened eminent domain, but she ultimately won in court

“Individual freedom finds tangible expression in property rights.” Those words, written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, capture a principle that lies at the heart of a free society. Yet across the country, that principle has often been tested, sometimes by powerful developers, sometimes by government agencies eager to serve private interests under the…

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Mexico cleaned over 100K tons of sargassum at the beginning of 2026, but is still facing a seaweed crisis due to the invasive species deeply impacting its tourism

A vast belt of brown seaweed is stretching across the Atlantic Ocean, from the coast of West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico, creating a phenomenon so extensive that it can be tracked from space. Known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB), it has reached extraordinary proportions in 2026, about 5,000 miles in length.Satellite…

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TSMC and Taiwan researchers engineered an interface only 0.42 nanometers thick to improve next-generation MoS2 transistors

Representational AI photo Researchers from Taiwan’s National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and TSMC Corporate Research have developed a new way to improve transistors made from atomically thin materials. They focuses on the tiny boundary where two materials meet, which allowed them to build transistors with an extremely thin insulating layer while maintaining strong…

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