US designates 2 Mexican cartels as foreign terror groups, expands crackdown on drug networks

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…

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Florida treasure hunters searching a 400-year-old shipwreck discovered a rare 22.5-pound silver bar worth up to $100,000 | World News

More than four centuries after the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha disappeared beneath the waters off the Florida Keys, the legendary shipwreck has yielded another remarkable discovery. Divers with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions recovered a 22.5-pound silver bar from about 50 feet underwater near Key West, marking the first silver bar recovered from…

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6 most snake-filled waterbodies in South Carolina: From the Savannah River to the ACE Basin | World News

South Carolina is a state built around water. From its coastal lowlands with their beaches and wetlands to the rivers and lakes spread throughout its forested landscape, the state abounds with bodies of water that offer opportunities such as fishing, boating, swimming, and camping. But along with the wildlife most visitors welcome, these waters also…

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Meet Marvin Minsky: MIT professor who predicted today’s Anthropic-style multi-agent AI nearly 40 years ago and became the founding father of artificial intelligence | World News

Long before AI companies began building teams of specialised AI agents that collaborate to solve complex problems, legendary MIT professor Marvin Minsky had already proposed a strikingly similar way intelligence works. In his landmark 1986 book The Society of Mind, Minsky argued that intelligence is not the product of one all-powerful brain but the result…

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Why was Washington reflecting pool drained again weeks after $14M renovation | World News

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., has been drained again for cleaning and repair work weeks after a $14 million renovation came under scrutiny over visible deterioration and alleged vandalism, Reuters reported.President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that authorities emptied the pool to repair damage he attributed to…

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Indian truck driver Jashanpreet Singh jailed for nearly 5 years for deadly California crash

Indian truck driver Jashanpreet Singh A 21-year-old Indian national who was living in the United States illegally has been sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for a devastating truck crash in Southern California that killed three people and injured several others.Jashanpreet Singh, who entered the United States illegally under the Biden administration,…

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He lost both his arms at age two in a farm accident. Then he taught himself to eat, write, drive tractors, repair machinery and run a 1,300-acre farm using only his feet, building a YouTube following of more than 134,000 subscribers | World News

A devastating farm accident when he was just two and a half years old could have changed the course of Andy Detwiler’s life forever. Instead, it became the beginning of an extraordinary journey of resilience, determination and self-belief. After losing both his arms in a grain auger accident on his family’s Ohio farm in 1972,…

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Quote of the day by Dale Carnegie: “Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of…” – why honest criticism is more valuable than praise | World News

Dale Carnegie (Image: Wikipedia) Most people brace themselves for criticism and relax around praise, treating the two as opposites, one dangerous and one safe. Dale Carnegie flipped that instinct on its head. “Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you,” he wrote. “Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” Coming from a man who…

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Quote of the day by Muhammad Ali, “The Greatest”: “I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because…” – a timeless lesson reveals that the purest acts of kindness are often the ones no one ever sees | World News

Muhammad Ali (Image: Wikipedia) Fame gave Muhammad Ali one of the largest platforms of the twentieth century, and he chose, deliberately, not to use most of it to talk about his own charity work. “I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly…

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