Two athletes can lose the exact same match and walk away from it in completely different shapes. One spends the following weeks replaying the loss, doubting the years of work that led to it. The other treats the loss as information, adjusts, and shows up to the next tournament ready to compete again. Serena Williams,…
Health workers interact at the Evangelical Medical Center in eastern Congo. (AP Photo) Seven American aid workers who had been involved in responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are being quarantined at a US-backed bio-isolation facility in Kenya after the US government introduced new travel restrictions requiring Americans returning…
Ronald L Fischer was taken into custody by US Marshals. (Photo: FBI Boston) A man who spent more than two decades evading US authorities after fleeing during his criminal trial has been arrested aboard a sailboat off the coast of New York.Ronald L. Fischer, 70, was taken into custody by US Marshals after investigators traced…
Lynn Marie Zamora stabs friend after he refused to let her drink beer in Uber. A 32-year-old Florida woman has been arrested after allegedly stabbing her friend with a pair of scissors during an Uber ride following an argument over drinking beer inside the vehicle, according to arrest records.The incident took place on Monday after…
United States of America is believed to have started in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 when the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. From the City Tavern where the founding fathers plotted the American Revolution to the Carpenters’ Halls where the colonies united against the British and even to Independence Hall where the US…
Wanting something and actually working towards it are two very different states, and most people spend far longer in the first than the second. Arnold Schwarzenegger put the gap plainly. “Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets,” he said. The image does the work by itself. Climbing…
The United States has designated Mexico’s Juarez Cartel and Los Viagras as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), expanding terrorism-related sanctions and legal penalties against the two criminal groups as part of President Donald Trump’s intensified campaign against Latin American cartels.The designation, published in the Federal Register on Thursday after being filed by the State Department a…
Trump administration introduces fixed visa stay limits for foreign students and journalists. The Trump administration has introduced a new rule that replaces open-ended stays for foreign students, cultural exchange visitors and journalists with fixed visa terms, marking another shift in U.S. immigration policy, news agency Reuters reported.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that the…
Emergency officials have urged residents living near rivers to move to higher ground. Texas is once again battling life-threatening flooding as relentless rainfall triggered flash flood emergencies across parts of the Hill Country and South Texas early Thursday, forcing evacuations, prompting dozens of water rescues, and reviving painful memories of last year’s catastrophic floods.Emergency officials…
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has said its Harlingen, Texas, field office arrested 238 illegal immigrants during a single-day enforcement operation in the Rio Grande Valley, describing it as the highest number of targeted arrests carried out by its Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in the region.ICE said the…