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.DHS asks US employers to fire foreign employees who lost Temporary Protected Status. The Department of Homeland Security told US employers to fire all those foreign workers who are now losing their 'Temporary Protected Status'. The direction came as the Supreme Court recently upheld the Donald Trump administration's authority to end the TPS for Haiti and Syria. Some companies have fired such employees, but some were waiting as the Supreme Court's ruling would not take effect for about 30 days.But the list of such country which are on their way to lose the TPS is long.The work permits of Haitians with Temporary Protected Status will expire on July 24. Such permits will also lapse on July 17 for those from Ethiopia, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, according to notices issued for each affected country by the USCIS.The five other countries collectively have about 20,000 TPS holders. USCIS had been extending work authorization in short increments. The a..

Quote of the day by Dr Jill Biden on a good marriage. In 2019, the First Lady Jill Biden published one of her most memorable works — Where the Light Enters — a story of the Biden family. It's a story of love, the tasks of marriage, and how she built the Biden family. The book is replete with interesting anecdotes of how Joe and Jill met and how they started dating and how they got married but this quote on marriage remains the most remarkable as Jill Biden did not paint a rosy picture of getting married to a politician — to eventually become the First Lady. In simple words. she explained what marriage is and what a good marriage is.”Good marriages push us—not to become someone else but to become the best version of ourselves,” Jill Biden wrote.Jill Biden's first marriageJill and Joe's marriage was neither of their first marriage and both of them had their equal share of suffering. Jill married Bill Stevenson, a former college football player, in February 1970. They me..

AdvertisementHong Kong societyHong KongSocietyYouth suicides in Hong Kong hit 10-year high: court reportPopulation expert warns of ‘virtual alienation’ trend among youth as cases rise for those aged 10 to 19 in 2025
3-MIN READ3-MIN1Emily HungPublished: 9:00am, 12 Jul 2026Youth suicide cases confirmed by Hong Kong Coroner’s Court reached a decade-high last year, despite a 10 per cent overall decline across the population to 1,019.
According to the annual coroners’ report published last month, suicide cases confirmed by the court declined across almost all age groups, except for those aged between 10 and 19.
Last year, 46 adolescents aged 10 to 19 were reported to have taken their own lives, up from 34 cases in the previous year and reaching a decade high. Most of these deaths involved falls from height.
There was also one girl aged below 10 who took her own life.
The age group that had the sharpest decline was the 40-to-49 bracket, which recorded 138 cases, down by 26 per cent from 186 ..

Iran on Sunday said ⁠it closed the Strait of Hormuz after a vessel travelled on an unapproved route and was struck, warning that any retaliation over the incident would be met with a “severe response”.
“A vessel that had jeopardised maritime security by switching off its systems was struck and brought to a halt,” the Navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement, without giving any details about the ship.
⁠The ⁠US ⁠military said shortly after that it had launched a new…

Candace Owens erupts at Andrew Kolvet’s Erika Kirk defense, calls biblical comparison ‘blasphemous’ and ‘sick’ (Image via Getty) The bitter public fight between Candace Owens and leaders at Turning Point USA has taken another sharp turn. On July 10, Owens hit back at TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet after he posted a sarcastic message on X that compared conspiracy theories to claims that Jesus’ resurrection involved a body double and that Mary was part of a murder plot. Owens called the comparison “positively blasphemous” and accused Kolvet of misusing Christian beliefs to defend Erika Kirk, the widow of late TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. The latest clash comes as court proceedings continue for Tyler Robinson, the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk during a September 2025 TPUSA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Prosecutors have presented video evidence, DNA findings and statements allegedly linked to Robinson, while his defense team has challenged parts of the forensic case…

Connor Murphy's close friend Austin Wayne says the late fitness influencer's controversial looksmaxxing persona was largely an act created for content. Remembering Murphy as calm, kind and genuine, Wayne urged people to stop chasing clout from his death and instead prioritize mental health, saying, “That's much more important than looksmaxxing.” The death of fitness influencer Connor Murphy has sparked an outpouring of tributes, but it has also reignited conversations about the public image he built online. As speculation continues to spread across social media, one of Murphy's closest friends is urging people to separate the viral persona from the man he knew in real life. Speaking after Murphy's reported drowning in Thailand, Austin Wayne painted a very different picture of the influencer, describing a calm, thoughtful friend rather than the unpredictable figure many viewers believed they were watching.Connor Murphy's friend says the viral looksmaxxing p..