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Making America Safe Again: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services End-of-Year Review Demonstrates Impact of Rigorous Immigration Crackdown
Under the leadership of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and USCIS Director Joseph Edlow, the agency has enhanced immigration screening and vetting protocols to protect communities and national security and has advanced immigration policies that put the national interest first. WASHINGTON— As the end of 2025 approaches, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would like to highlight key accomplishments for…
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10 Movie That Flew Under The Radar In 2025
The year 2025 delivered a wealth of exceptional filmmaking, with independent movies securing significant critical and audience acclaim despite not always having the marketing might of blockbusters. Proving that cinematic triumph doesn’t require massive budgets, numerous films earned accolades across the global festival circuit, often flying just under the public radar. Among the year’s standout festival darlings were diverse features…
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Illegal settlement expansion: How Israel is redrawing occupied West Bank | Explainer News
The Israeli security cabinet has approved 19 new settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank as the right-wing government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moves to prevent the formation of a viable Palestinian state. As Netanyahu’s government has made the annexation of occupied Palestinian territory a priority, the United Nations has said Israeli settlement expansions in 2025 have reached…
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Proposed changes to thalidomide survivors’ support program cause concern
The drug for pregnant women left more than 100 Canadians with a lifetime of disabilities. A decade after receiving funding from a government support program, some thalidomide survivors say it has helped make difficult days easier. The Globe and Mail The private company managing the federal government’s support program for thalidomide survivors is exploring changes that include dividing an existing…
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Biofabri, Bharat Biotech agree to share tech to advance global access to MTBVAC TB vaccine
Hyderabad: Biofabri, a global human vaccine development company and part of the Zendal Group, and Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) have signed a Technology Transfer Agreement aimed at advancing global access to MTBVAC, a next-generation tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate. The agreement strengthens an existing partnership between the two companies and marks a key step towards establishing manufacturing capacity for MTBVAC…
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Ex-Saudi intel chief to ToI: Riyadh will consider normalization when Israel acts normally
Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal, told The Times of Israel on Sunday that Riyadh is currently not even entertaining the idea of normalizing relations with Israel and will only do so if Jerusalem begins acting like a “normal country.” “Saudi Arabia is not considering a normalization deal with Israel. Should Israel become a normal country with normal…
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Rachakonda records a marginal decline in traffic violations in 2025
Hyderabad: A total of 3,488 cases were recorded in the Rachakonda commissionerate this year, signifying only a slight dip in cases from last year, with 3,207 cases recorded in 2024, according to the Telangana Police’s 2025 annual crime report for the commissionerate, released on Monday, December 22. Rachakonda traffic zone I In the zone covering Malkajgiri, Bhongir, Yadagirigutta, Choutuppal, Ghatkesar, Uppal,…
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10 space zombie movies, books, and games to prepare you for the night of the intergalactic dead
Halloween may have been and gone, but with the nights drawing in, there’s still plenty of time to explore sci-fi’s universal terrors. So, come with us as we delve into the nightmare realm of space zombies, alien parasites, and lunar plagues. According to George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, “When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will…
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Fairer laws passed, polluting factories shuttered, charges against innocent people dropped – and 10 more ways our US reporting made change in 2025 | The Guardian
Photograph: Eddie Gerald/Alamy 1 Israel blocked from using Microsoft software for mass surveillance of Palestinians after Guardian investigation After we exclusively revealed that Israel’s elite spy agency was using Microsoft technology to store recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, Microsoft announced it was terminating the Israeli military’s access…
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A new drug could stop Alzheimer’s before memory loss begins
An experimental drug developed at Northwestern University has demonstrated further promise as an early intervention for Alzheimer’s disease. In a new study, Northwestern scientists identified a previously unknown highly toxic sub-species of amyloid beta oligomers — toxic clusters of peptides — that appear to drive several of the brain’s earliest changes, including neuronal dysfunction, inflammation and activation of immune cells.…
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