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Kelly LiuPhoto credit: www.actionfornature.org When Kelly Liu looked at air pollution data around San Jose, she noticed something important was missing. Official monitoring stations could show broad regional trends, but they did not always reveal what students were breathing beside busy roads, industrial areas or older school buildings. The 16-year-old student decided to fill that…

The $100K OPT fee proposal has been cleared by White House. International students in the US are staring at a dramatic increase in the cost of working after graduation under a Trump administration proposal that has cleared the White House review. The proposal will soon become a rule and a $100,000 fee will be imposed…

Trump says his son Donald Trump Jr has calmed down since his marriage to Bettina Anderson. US President Donald Trump said his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, has been a different person ever since marrying Bettina Anderson, joking that the 48-year-old has “calmed down so much” and is now “like a different human being”. Trump…

1-year-old miniature donkey HeeHaw was killed by a cop who claimed that the donkey charged at him. A Georgia police officer who shot and killed a beloved pet donkey while searching for a missing 12-year-old girl has explained why he opened fire, saying the animal charged at officers and did not stop even after a…

Trump opens 2.93M acres of Utah lands to new mining claims after cutting monument protections. (Photo: Shutterstock) President Donald Trump’s July decision to sharply shrink two major national monuments in Utah took effect for mining and mineral development on September 11, when nearly 2.93 million acres removed from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante became eligible…

24 years after dramatic 9/11 birth, Maine mother and retired firefighter reunite A Maine mother who went into labour during a September 11 memorial service in 2002 has reunited with the firefighter who helped deliver her son on the side of a highway nearly a quarter of a century ago. Maddie Marks was attending a…

US President Donald Trump. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said Donald Trump’s proposed USD 5,000 “dividend” for American adults would not be funded through tax revenue amid questions over how the plan would be financed.According to The Guardian, Trump has proposed the one-time payment if Republicans retain control of both chambers of Congress in…

US CEO asks if US is ready to deport foreign doctors or AI engineers through the elimination of the 60-day grace period. The CEO of an immigration firm in Seattle, Xiao Wang, questioned the DHS proposal to eliminate the 60-day grace period allowed to job visa holders in case they get laid off and asked…

NYPD graduate Casey Kloepfer (left), gets his shield and officer Ronald Kloepfer (right) died on 9/11 At four years of age, Casey Kloepfer was too young to understand why his father never came home from work. Twenty-five years later, he carries that loss into the same department his father served, wearing his father’s badge number…

The Intrepid wasn’t an independent FBI facility. The museum complex also assisted FEMA and state and local emergency responders during the response. The ship’s flight deck served another unanticipated purpose, as a temporary helipad. One morning that changed New York’s skyline forever, one of the city’s most unlikely buildings became a place of urgent work….