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AOC secretly split from her partner Riley Roberts long before she went for egg freezing. After Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that she was going to freeze her eggs so that she could choose the right time to become a mother, speculations were rife about her relationship with Riley Roberts, her long-time boyfriend and partner. The duo got engaged in 2022. Many social media users asked why she was not choosing to be a biological mother now as she was already engaged to her college sweetheart.Leigh Ann Caldwell, Puck News’ chief Washington correspondent, revealed that a “reputable Democratic source” told her about 18 months ago that Ocasio-Cortez and her partner Riley Roberts had ended their engagement. “AOC stopped wearing her engagement ring several months before that,” Caldwell wrote on X Tuesday. “There have been no public photos of her and Riley together in recent history.”Last photograph around 2021-22Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts were last photographed together at the ..

H-1B visa holder shares how questioning went on for 30 minutes and most of these questions were technical and specific about job role (Photo: AI) An H-1B visa holder shared the lengthy interview that took place at the Hyderabad Consulate in India, revealing how minutely visa officers are now going through H-1B visa applications and how they are asking technical questions about the job, specific projects etc. The interview continued for 30 minutes with two different interviewers, and they grilled the person, asking many questions about the company, about colleagues, about clients, education background. The person posted the entire experience on an NRI group and said the visa got approved almost a month after the interview, and the status on the site was shown as 'refused' throughout the month.Questions asked for H-1B visa as shared by the visa holderExplain your roleDo you work for a client?What is your pay?How much did you pay your employer for the H-1B?What is the name of th..

Retiree Yang Fangxin’s 72 sq ft rooftop home, located on the ninth floor of a 62-year-old building in Sham Shui Po, has become a heat trap under Hong Kong’s scorching hot weather.
The temperature in her home was above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) at around 5pm on Tuesday, higher than the 33 degrees recorded at the Hong Kong Observatory’s monitoring station in the same district.
The temperature in her home only dropped slightly to 37.8 degrees after switching on two fans and an air…

AdvertisementHong Kong politicsHong KongPolitics‘I’ll be first in line to buy your bonds’: how Zhu Rongji put steel in Hong Kong’s spineTributes pour in for former premier Zhu Rongji from senior leaders in Hong Kong’s political and business circles
4-MIN READ4-MIN ListenLeopold ChenandSimpson CheungPublished: 10:10pm, 12 Aug 2026Updated: 10:20pm, 12 Aug 2026In late 2002, former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji visited Hong Kong and sought to put steel in the spine of the city’s establishment that was floundering under an economic slump and a ballooning deficit.
“Even if you spend all your fiscal reserves three years from now, what is there to fear?” he asked his dinner guests at Government House in a famously unscripted speech.
“If you issue 50-year long-term Hong Kong bonds on the mainland, I will be the first in line to buy them. I believe the mainland people will follow me and buy them too!”
As tributes from Hong Kong’s business and political figures, including by former chief executives ..

NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji is scheduled to visit Syria and Lebanon in September, New York Post reported. NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji has a trip to Syria and Lebanon on her schedule in September and that has triggered a major row as it is not clear whether she will be accompanied by NYPD security. New York Post reported that Duwaji requested NYPD security after she traveled overseas last month without police protection. But the countries that she intends to visit are on State Department's 'Do Not Travel' list for Americans.Mayoral spokesperson Dora Pekec confirmed to New York Post that Rama Duwaji's security detail will be joining her when she travel to visit family in Syria and Lebanon. But NYPD later denied it and said such a trip would never be approved.“The NYPD does not send officers to countries with level four travel advisories for discretionary reasons not linked to investigative work,” an NYPD spokesperson told Post, adding that this is ..

Representative Image (AI-generated) Maryland is giving residents a new option for what happens to their bodies after death. According to WYPR, a public radio station serving Maryland, the state is now home to what is described as the nation's largest human composting facility: a 37,000-square-foot facility in Elkridge operated by Earth Funeral. The facility uses a process formally known as natural organic reduction, offering an alternative to conventional burial and cremation.Human composting may sound unusual, but the basic idea is rooted in the natural decomposition of organic material. Instead of placing a body underground or exposing it to the high temperatures of cremation, natural organic reduction uses a controlled environment to accelerate the body's natural breakdown and eventually produce soil-like material.How human composting worksThe process takes place inside specially designed vessels, where bacteria, fungi and organic materials such as mulch help break down th..

Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday approved former supreme court chief Andras Baka, a critic of Viktor Orban who was fired during the ex-premier’s time in power, as the country’s next head of state.
The post became vacant following the contested removal last month of the previous president, an Orban ally, as pro-EU conservative Prime Minister Peter Magyar pushes to loosen his predecessor’s lingering hold over state institutions.
Parliament, where the ruling Tisza party holds a two-thirds majority,…

In a landmark change to Lebanon’s penal system, the country’s parliament on Tuesday approved legislation abolishing the death penalty, replacing it with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The vote makes Lebanon the first Arab country to formally abolish the death penalty.
Justice Minister Adel Nassar, who attended the parliamentary session, described the vote as a “historic step” for Lebanon.
The measure was approved by a majority of the…

Connecticut woman designs tiny cottage, brings three generations togetherPhoto credit: The Picket Fence Projects via Bussines Insider When interior designer Caitlin Swann spoke to Business Insider about her family’s living arrangement, she described it as “the best” and “a blessing”, and it’s easy to see why. In Fairfield, Connecticut, Swann and her husband live in their main house with their three children, while her retired parents, Patti and Gary Christie, now reside in a custom 725-square-foot cottage just a few steps away in the backyard. What began as a practical housing decision has turned into a warm multigenerational setup where babysitting is a stroll across the lawn and grandparents are part of daily life.A crossroads for Patti and GaryIn 2024, Patti and Gary, then in their mid-70s, found themselves at a turning point. They had lived in their New Jersey family home for over 40 years, raising their children there and building their routines and memories in that space. Once th..

Thalles Winner DeSouza with Terry Smily and Usama El-Sehrawey celebrating his acceptance into Yale A Wendy’s worker who survived a shooting in Brazil is heading to Yale University after his bosses helped him pay for college.Thalles Winner DeSouza, 23, had started working at a Wendy’s restaurant in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, while he was still in high school. As per his Facebook post, his plans at the time were focused on earning money, and he had considered leaving Wendy’s for construction work.It was then when his bosses, Usama El-Sehrawey and the late Ernest Smily, encouraged him to stay and continue his education. They eventually helped fund his studies at Cape Cod Community College, an opportunity DeSouza says changed the direction of his life.Four years after receiving that support, DeSouza has been accepted into Yale University. He shared his journey in an online post on July 28, thanking the people who had supported him and saying their generosity had opened a door that changed hi..