Indian-origin taxi driver Gurmeet Singh stripped of US citizenship 15 years after rape conviction

Indian-origin taxi driver Gurmeet Singh stripped of US citizenship 15 years after rape conviction

Indian-origin taxi driver Gurmeet Singh stripped of US citizenship. An India-born taxi driver serving a 20-year sentence for kidnapping and raping a female passenger at knifepoint in 2011 was stripped of his US citizenship, the Justice Department said Monday, the New York Post reported.Gurmeet Singh, 55, was convicted in 2014 over the violent sexual assault…

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A Tennessee man left a late-1700s house and about 0,000 to local government for a park; after nearly a decade of delays, the property and money are going to a descendant

A Tennessee man left a late-1700s house and about $500,000 to local government for a park; after nearly a decade of delays, the property and money are going to a descendant

Plans to restore a historic Sumner County house are finally happening A historic late-18th-century home and about $500,000 in cash given to a local Tennessee government to create a public park have been returned to a family descendant after nearly 10 years of municipal delays. The legal transfer ends a long dispute over the estate,…

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Galveston Bay Waterbirds: In the 1930s, Texas built 3 bird-nesting islands from dredged mud; all vanished, but one rebuilt 4.5-acre island now hosts more than 2,500 nesting pairs

Galveston Bay Waterbirds: In the 1930s, Texas built 3 bird-nesting islands from dredged mud; all vanished, but one rebuilt 4.5-acre island now hosts more than 2,500 nesting pairs

Dickinson Bay lost its charm over the decades. The small estuarine pocket on Galveston Bay’s western shore once hosted thriving colonies of waterbirds on three dredged islands. But then the islands completely vanished. During the 1980s and 1990s, subsidence, erosion, and a string of tropical storms swept the islands beneath the water. And with them…

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Afghan general who led last-ditch effort to stop Taliban takeover now drives Uber in Washington

Afghan general who led last-ditch effort to stop Taliban takeover now drives Uber in Washington

Afghan General Haibatullah Alizai. Afghan General Haibatullah Alizai, who led a last-ditch effort to resist the Taliban takeover in 2021, now drives an Uber in Washington DC after being granted asylum in the US.In an interview with CBS’ Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Alizai spoke about his final days in Afghanistan, his evacuation by…

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‘This well is not to be built over’: A California ranch was warned 20 years ago; young teens are now suffering from a rare cancer

‘This well is not to be built over’: A California ranch was warned 20 years ago; young teens are now suffering from a rare cancer

Children and teens in Ladera Ranch, California, are getting a rare bone cancer at a higher rate than the national average. (Photo: LA Times) Ladera Ranch is a 4,000-acre planned community in southern Orange County, California. As per the 2020 census, this ranch had a population of 26,170. The residents of the ranch have now…

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Meet Olivia Shone, the 19-year-old who built a $600,000 investment house after she began saving at 16, while serving in Australia’s military and studying law

Her mother died when she was 11, which changed her childhood significantly. She grew up helping her father with jobs around the family farm, before finding work mucking out horse stables at an equestrian facility at Drouin West when she was about 14 or 15. 19-year-old Olivia Shone has achieved what many Australians spend decades…

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Italy Population Decline: Italy population to shrink by nearly 4 million by 2050 as ageing accelerates: Report

Italy Population Decline: Italy population to shrink by nearly 4 million by 2050 as ageing accelerates: Report

File photo: Tourists pose in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy (Picture credit: AP) Italy’s population is projected to shrink by almost 4 million people by 2050, with a rapidly ageing population posing fresh challenges for the country’s economy and welfare system, according to new projections released by the national statistics bureau ISTAT…

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