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A group of House Democrats is traveling to El Salvador to demand the return of a deported illegal alien, accused of MS-13 gang membership, domestic abuse, and human trafficking, while at the same time ignoring migrant crime in the states they represent. Reps. Robert Garcia (D-CA), Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), and Maxine Dexter (D-OR) are following Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) by traveling to El Salvador on Monday to demand that President Nayib Bukele release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien native of El Salvador who is accused of being an MS-13 gang member, beating his wife, and being…

As women in socially conservative Bangladesh are generally not allowed to lead Muslim prayers, footage purportedly depicting a Bangladeshi woman breaking taboo sparked anger on social media. But the clip has been misrepresented and was in fact filmed in India’s southern Kerala state.”A woman leads the congregation while men behind perform prayers!! What kind of Bangladesh are we in today?” says a Bengali-language Facebook post that shared the clip on March 9, 2025.It shows a woman in front of a group of men, leading them in a Muslim prayer service.Screenshot of the false post, taken April 13, 2025Similar posts spread elsewhere…

SPRINGFIELD — MGM Springfield reported $25.5 million in gross gambling revenue from both slot machines and table games in March.That’s up from $20.9 million in February but roughly in line with the $25.2 million in gross gambling revenue reported a year earlier in March 2024, according to figures released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.All three of the state’s casinos, Plainridge Park Casino, MGM Springfield and Encore Boston Harbor. together generated approximately $105.10 million in gross gaming revenue, the gaming commission said in its monthly report.To date, Massachusetts has collected approximately $2.045 billion in total taxes and assessments from the…

The interagency position was designed to facilitate the prosecution of alleged crimes related to the Ukraine conflict The administration of US President Donald Trump has reportedly eliminated a position within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) that was responsible for sharing evidence of alleged Russian war crimes.Mandated by a bipartisan bill passed in 2022 in response to the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, the Intelligence Community Coordinator for Russia Atrocities Accountability Act (ICCRAA) was enacted as part of the 2023 Intelligence Authorization Act.According to anonymous sources cited by the Washington Post on Tuesday, both the ICCRAA and…

Judge Paula Xinis/ Wikimedia Commons Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, erupted on the Trump Administration after a conference to address the government’s dispute over discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. The judge accused the Trump Administration of defying her court order and ordered the government to provide more details by Wednesday about its decision to send Abrego Garcia to CECOT. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadorian national who was illegally residing in Maryland. In 2019, an immigration judge ordered Abrego Garcia, an alleged member of the dangerous MS-13 gang, removed from the US. Additionally, an immigration appellate…

A customer pays with GCash in Manila, the Philippines, Nov. 11, 2017. Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Mynt—operator of the Philippines’ most popular e-wallet GCash and backed by the billionaire Zobel de Ayala family—may defer its IPO should the intensifying trade war between the U.S. and China escalate and continue to roil markets. The GCash operator is owned 36% by Globe Telecom, a joint venture between Singapore Telecom and Ayala Corp, which is owned by billionaire Jaime Zobel de Ayala and his family. Mynt’s other investors include the Philippine conglomerate’s AC Ventures, China’s Ant Financial and Japan’s MUFG Bank.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nadine Menendez, the wife of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, was convicted Monday of teaming up with her husband to accept bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey men looking for help with their business dealings or legal troubles. The jury returned its verdict in the same federal courthouse in Manhattan where a different jury convicted Bob Menendez of many of the same charges last year. The Democrat is supposed to begin serving an 11-year prison term in June. The evidence shown to jurors over a three-week trial followed the…

China’s clean electricity generation reached a new high in the first quarter of 2025 (Q1 2025), with more than 951 terawatt hours (TWh) produced, a 19% increase from the same period in 2024, reported Reuters, citing data from energy think tank Ember.This growth outpaced other major markets such as Europe and the US, and raised the clean power share in China’s generation mix to a record 39%.Wind farms led as the top source of clean electricity, contributing 307TWh and accounting for 13% of the total generation.Solar power also recorded a 48% surge in output to 254TWh, representing a record 10%…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two major law firms are expected to ask separate judges on Wednesday to permanently block President Donald Trump’s executive orders that were designed to punish them and hurt their business operations.The firms — Perkins Coie and WilmerHale — have said the orders imposed in March are unconstitutional assaults on the legal profession that threaten their relationships with clients and retaliate against them based either on their past legal representations or their association with particular attorneys who Trump perceives as his adversaries.Courts last month temporarily halted enforcement of key provisions of both orders, but the firms are in…

Massachusetts Institute of Technology astronomers have discovered a planet roughly 140 light-years from Earth — but it’s quickly disintegrating.The planet, which scientists have tagged as BD+05 4868 Ab, is located so close to the sun that it completes a full orbit every 30.5 hours, according to MIT News. As a result, it’s likely covered in magma, causing the planet to evaporate and shed the equivalent of one Mount Everest’s worth of surface materials during every orbit.The astronomers estimate the planet may disintegrate fully within the next 1 to 2 million years.Debris trails behind the planet in a comet-like fashion, which…