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A federal judge in Boston is holding a hearing Thursday regarding a Tufts University Ph.D. student taken into custody in Massachusetts and moved by Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities to Louisiana last week.The government claimed in a filing Tuesday that Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student and Fulbright Scholar, had already been removed from Massachusetts before U.S. District Judge Denise Casper issued an order for her to stay in the state and that Casper no longer has jurisdiction to hear the case.Attorneys for Ozturk had filed a habeas petition to block her removal from Massachusetts, as well as from the…

A Florida man is accused of stealing a Cybertruck during a test drive last month, then returning to the dealership at a later date to retrieve his belongings, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.Dexter Smithen allegedly went to a Tesla dealership in Tampa, Florida, on March 26 to test drive a Cybertruck Cyberbeast after meeting with a sales person, according to a criminal affidavit seen by FOX 13 Tampa Bay.Smithen gave the sales associate his driver’s license, which was confirmed to be his, and signed a test-drive agreement to return the truck to the dealership within 30 minutes of…

By Sammy Hudes The Canadian Press Posted April 3, 2025 6:40 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area fell 23.1 per cent in March while more supply hit the market, helping bring down prices compared with a year ago. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says 5,011 homes were sold last month, compared with 6,519 in March 2024. Sales were down 2.4 per cent from February on a seasonally adjusted basis. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a…

Getting vaccinated against shingles can reduce the risk of developing dementia, a large new study finds.The results provide some of the strongest evidence yet that some viral infections can have effects on brain function years later and that preventing them can help stave off cognitive decline.The study, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, found that people who received the shingles vaccine were 20 percent less likely to develop dementia in the seven years afterward than those who were not vaccinated.“If you’re reducing the risk of dementia by 20 percent, that’s quite important in a public health context, given that…

Matteo LaneApril 5 at 8 p.m. at Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan; msg.com.A man of many talents, Matteo Lane used to live in Italy working as a painter and an opera singer before he returned to Chicago to start his comedy career.Since moving to New York City more than a decade ago, Lane has become a favorite at the Comedy Cellar, where he filmed “The Advice Special” in 2022 and its follow-up “Hair Plugs & Heartache” in 2023. Lane has also appeared in the L.G.B.T.Q. stand-up documentary “Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution,” as well as in…

Real estate expert and reality star Tarek El Moussa has been on a transformative journey over the past few years, and the results speak for themselves.The HGTV star opened up to Fox News Digital about how his new approach to life has not only changed his appearance but also altered his mindset. El Moussa dramatically transformed himself through his fitness journey to the point where fans began wondering if he had gone under the knife. TAREK EL MOUSSA SAID HE’S ‘LUCKY TO BE ALIVE’ AFTER REFERRING TO WIFE HEATHER AS EX-WIFE CHRISTINA HAACK “Flipping 101” star Tarek El Moussa told Fox News…

When President Trump first pushed tariffs on China in 2018, Apple began moving more production of iPads and AirPods to Vietnam and iPhones to India.But with Mr. Trump’s return to the White House, that strategy may have backfired for the world’s most valuable publicly traded company.On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said that the United States would put tariffs of 46 percent on Vietnam and 26 percent on India. The White House has said the tariffs are effective immediately, but some trade experts consider them to be preliminary and designed to be a starting point for negotiations to reduce overseas tariffs.The proposed…

Dear Tripped Up,Last Sept. 26, I booked a ski trip for my family at a Sheraton Vacation Club property in Steamboat Springs, Colo., for December — or so I thought. As soon as I saw the confirmation email, I realized I had actually booked a reservation for that very night, Sept. 26. I assume the dates somehow reset as I navigated the website. I canceled the reservation exactly two minutes after purchase and went about my business, bailing water out of my basement as Hurricane Helene approached our home in the Asheville, N.C., area. We soon lost power for days,…

At least seven people have died, including two children, after a boat carrying migrants from Turkey to a nearby Greek island capsized, Greece’s coast guard says.A search and rescue operation off the northern coast of the island of Lesbos recovered the bodies on Thursday.The coast guard said 23 people have been rescued.Reporting on what appeared to be the same sinking, Turkey’s state-run media said the incident was attended by the Turkish coast guard after a rubber dinghy sank in the Aegean Sea between the Turkish mainland and Lesbos.Those rescued were taken to a hospital and the search continued, Anadolu news…

NEW DELHI: India’s parliament passed a Bill on Thursday (Apr 3)  to reform hugely wealthy Muslim land-owning organisations, with the Hindu nationalist government saying it will boost accountability while the opposition called it an “attack” on a minority. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government argues that the Bill will boost transparency to more than a dozen powerful Waqf boards, which control properties gifted by Muslim charitable endowments. There are around two dozen Waqf boards across India, owning some 365,000ha, a multi-billion-dollar property empire that makes them one of the biggest landholders alongside the railways and the defence forces. Minister of Parliamentary Affairs…