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BanglaPress Desk: Following the Democratic Party's victory in both chambers of Congress during the U.S. midterm elections, President Donald Trump has congratulated his opponents, acknowledging that th...
Noman Sabit: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on February 10, 2026, United States District Judge Jennifer P. Wilson sentenced Joshua White, 44, previously of Yoe, Pennsylvania, to 96 months’ i...
Abu Sabet: Lawful permanent residents commonly known as green card holdersare no longer eligible to receive loans backed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), under a new federal policy change.According to the revised guidance, all applica...
Bangla Press Desk: The first solar eclipse of 2026 will occur on Tuesday (17 February). People around the world are eagerly awaiting the annual celestial event, popularly known as the “Ring of Fire”.The phenomenon occurs when the Earth, the Sun and t...
Abu Sabet: The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division (DOJ) filed a lawsuit today against Harvard University (Harvard), accusing Harvard of unlawfully withholding from the United States admissions data information necessary to determine whether H...
Bangla Press Desk: More than 6,000 people were killed during a three-day offensive by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Darfur city of El-Fasher in late October, the United Nations said in a report released Friday.The UN Human Ri...
Minara Helen: Zohran Mamdani has U-turned on a campaign pledge to help New Yorkers pay their rent.The New York City mayor backtracked on his promise to throw his support behind an affordable housing initiative providing vouchers to families strugglin...
Noman Sabit: An Indian national admitted to his role in a foiled 2023 criminal plot to kill a Sikh activist with US citizenship who was living in New York.Nikhil Gupta, 54, pleaded guilty at a federal court hearing in New York Friday to three charges...
Ema Alice: A daycare teacher has been charged for allegedly sexually abusing several young students at the Bushwick child care center where he worked.Devante Brown, 30, was arrested Tuesday by the NYPD’s Brooklyn Child Abuse Squad, police said.Accord...
Staff Reporter: A New York woman is accused of fraudulently withdrawing approximately $27,000 from various Webster Bank locations across Connecticut several summers ago, according to South Windsor police.Kimberly A. Maine, 54, of Troy, New York, was...
Noman Sabit: A Bangladeshi migrant has won an asylum case because he might have been jailed for 20 years on bomb charges if deported back to his country of origin.The man, who was granted anonymity, argued he should not be sent back to his home count...
Kousholy Ema: Hiring grew a little warmer last month after a chilly year in 2025. A report from the Labor Department Wednesday showed U.S. employers added a better-than-expected 130,000 jobs in January but an annual update shows hiring last year was...
Abu Sabet: An immigration court judge has terminated deportation proceedings against Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University scholar whose arrest last March by masked ICE agents on the street is among the defining images of the Trump administration’s aggr...
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