Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the Green Card ban for 75 countries is illegal. The ongoing Green Card freeze on 75 countries received a blow from a district court as Indian-American judge Amit Mehta, who was appointed by former president Barack Obama, called it illegal. The public charge policy issued by Secretary of State Marco…
PC: Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Julia-Marlen Schiefelbein Construction work in historic city centres often reveals traces of earlier lives, though only occasionally do archaeologists encounter objects that shed light on the personal beliefs of medieval communities. That has happened at Berlin’s Molkenmarkt, where excavations by the Berlin State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments have produced…
Barring only 4 companies from hiring H-1B visa holders for one to two years is not enough, H-1B critics said. The US Department of Labor recently barred four employers from hiring H-1Bs for 2027 and 2028 after they were found as wilful violators. Labor Department’s inspector general Anthony D’Esposito announced the measure and issued a…
The recent planting drive marks only one stage in a restoration process that has taken years of planning. (DVIDS photo) Eight years after California’s Ranch Fire destroyed vast stretches of forest, efforts to restore the landscape are now taking shape, Defence Visual Information Distribution Service reported. This spring, the US Forest Service, along with nonprofit…
Representative Image of microalgae cultivation powered by whisky industry byproducts (AI-generated image) A Scottish biotech company is trying to solve a problem at the heart of the global omega-3 supply chain: the fact that most omega-3 fatty acids used in pet food, aquaculture feed and human supplements still come from wild-caught fish, even though fish…
For more than two decades, residents of the small Canadian town of St. Mary’s in Newfoundland and Labrador have lived with an overwhelming smell caused by an abandoned fish sauce factory. The site, once operated by the Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company, was left with more than 330,000 gallons (1.25 million litres) of fermenting fish sauce…
File photo: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (left) and US President Donald Trump Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday said Tehran does not want to escalate tensions in the Middle East but will “act with its full capabilities” to defend the country’s security, national interests and territorial integrity, even as US President Donald Trump warned that…
Ask most people to name Africa’s deadliest snake, and the black mamba usually comes up first. The black mamba is “widely considered the world’s deadliest snake,” pointing to its potent venom and its habit of striking more than once when it feels cornered. But the snake’s fearsome reputation can make it easy to forget that…
Bangstad has said he intends to challenge the revocation through the available legal process. (Photo: Bangstad and Trump) Kirk Bangstad, the owner of Wisconsin-based Minocqua Brewing Company, has said he will ‘fight tooth and nail’ after the state moved to revoke his brewery’s licence to operate, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Bangstad, who promised free beer…
Representative Image of a long-lost California wildflower found again after decades (AI-generated image) A small, yellow-flowered California native plant that had not been documented in nearly seven decades has been rediscovered in the hills of eastern Contra Costa County. The caper-fruited Tropidocarpum, last recorded in 1957, was found on March 3, 2025, by botanist Heath…
