Saturday’s (July 4 2026) afternoon knockout round game between France and Paraguay in Philadelphia could be this World Cup tournament’s hottest, posing dangers to the region as well as athletes and tens of thousands of fans in the open-air stadium. A heat wave is expected to continue across the eastern and central U.S. through the…
People walk past billboards built for upcoming NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters NATO leaders gather next week in Ankara, where Europeans aim to set aside strife with U.S. President Donald Trump over Iran and Greenland and show they are stepping up to defend the continent as Washington…
At least 40 people, including women and children, were killed when a bus they were travelling in fell into a ravine in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday (July 3, 2026), officials said. The incident took place when the Peshawar-bound bus entered Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after crossing Balochistan’s Sherani district….
Ukraine said on Friday (July 3, 2026) that the death toll from a massive barrage on its capital had risen to at least 30 people, as both Kyiv and Moscow vowed fresh assaults. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his forces would “definitely” retaliate for the Wednesday (July 1, 2026) to Thursday (July 2, 2026) overnight…
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and family members’ coffins on display in Tehran. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iran is holding a massive funeral ceremony for the country’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The world is closely watching the multi-day funeral of the former leader amid a fragile pause in hostilities between Iran, Israel and the United…
I wrote a book called Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America. The subtitle captures the essence of the book. When I embarked on the project in 2021, it was virtually impossible to turn on CNN, read the Wall Street Journal, go to a hospital, attend a university, or browse a bookstore in America without encountering a…
The arrests news also comes as the number of people entered into ICE detention facilities climbed in June to roughly 39,000 after hovering around 30,000 per month since February. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June, marking a major push…
The Ruby Princess docked in San Francisco. File | Photo Credit: AP More than 120 passengers and crew members on a Princess Cruises ship that docked in San Francisco on Thursday (July 2, 2026) were infected with a stomach virus while on their voyage, federal health officials said. The Ruby Princess was on a 20-day…
Mojtaba Khamenei to skip his father, Ali Khamenei’s, funeral over security concerns: Report Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojataba Khamenei will not attend the funeral ceremonies for his father, former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, due to security concerns, according to the current leader’s representative in India, Ayatollah Hakim Elahi. Elahi attributed the decision to Israeli threats and…
A different panel of the same court had been the first in the nation to endorse the Trump administration’s novel interpretation of a federal immigration statute as allowing mandatory detention of non-citizens in the US. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot detain people for more than 90 days under the…