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PRAYAGRAJ: Thousands of sanitation workers were toiling on Friday (Mar 7) to clean up 20,000 tonnes of waste left behind by hundreds of millions of Hindu devotees after India’s Maha Kumbh Mela mega-festival. The massive sanitation drive has been underway since the six-week gala drew to a close last week in the northern city of Prayagraj. Hundreds of millions of people visited the city during the festival according to government figures, with mounds of discarded clothing, plastic bottles and other waste now littering the grounds. “We have deployed 15,000 workers to clear up some 20,000 tonnes of waste generated from the…

In England, the Tuesday before lent is traditionally celebrated by eating a stack of pancakes.But in Atherstone, a small town about 100 miles northwest of London, the locals gathered for a more bloody ritual: At 3 p.m. on the town’s main street, a ball was thrown out of the second-story window of a mortgage broker’s office, and dozens of men roared in unison as they piled on top of it.They punched and shoved each other as they scrambled for the ball, eventually emerging from the scrum with road rash and swollen faces. One young player smiled at onlookers, revealing a…

FIRST ON FOX: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s legal team hit a South Dakota media outlet with a cease-and-desist letter demanding that it correct and end its knowingly “false and misleading” reporting that Noem allegedly racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars on a government-issued credit card when she served as governor, Fox News Digital has learned. “On behalf of former South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem in her personal capacity, I write out of concern that your website continues to publish false and misleading information about my client that you have known to be false since at least July 2024,” an…

Damon Hininger, the chief executive of CoreCivic, which operates private prisons and immigrant detention centers, opened an investor call last month on a buoyant note.“I’ve worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career,” he said, adding that the company was anticipating in the next several years “perhaps the most significant growth in our company’s history.”CoreCivic, GEO Group and some smaller private prison companies are becoming a key cog in the Trump administration’s plan to hold and then deport vast numbers of undocumented immigrants. Already in the past week, CoreCivic…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Supreme Court of Canada is set to release its decision today about third-party election advertising rules in Ontario that limit spending. Before 2021, third parties in Ontario could spend up to $600,000 on advertising in the six months before a provincial election call.That year, Premier Doug Ford’s government stretched that restricted spending period to one year while keeping the spending limit the same.The Progressive Conservative government argued the extended restriction was necessary to protect elections from outside influence, but critics said it amounted to the government trying to silence criticism ahead of the 2022 provincial…

Kurtis Patterson fell short of a century but his patient knock at least guided NSW to first-innings honours in their Sheffield Shield clash with Western Australia at the WACA Ground.In reply to WA’s 196, the Blues went to stumps on day two at 8-258, with Patterson’s 86 off 260 balls holding the innings together.Star WA paceman Lance Morris snared 4-25 from 18 overs in an impressive display, but was Patterson was the star of the day.The 31-year-old, who played two Tests for Australia in 2019, was so out of form last season he was dropped from NSW’s Shield line-up.But he…

Meanwhile, Tokyo’s economy, trade and industry minister Yoji Muto told reporters that he hoped his US trip would “be a win-win for both Japanese and US national interests”. He said the visit was being coordinated and did not confirm the Mar 9 to 13 dates given by Japanese media or reports that he would push US officials to exempt Japan from levies. Trump has said 25 per cent steel and aluminium tariffs will be imposed on Wednesday of next week, without exceptions. “It is important to closely study the specific content of these (tariff) measures and their impact,” Muto said…

As Congressional Republicans weigh major cuts to Medicaid, most voters do not want to see the public health plan’s funding dialed back, according to a poll released Friday by KFF, a nonpartisan health research firm.Just 17 percent of respondents said they supported cuts to Medicaid, the government health insurance program that covers more than 70 million people. Forty percent said they wanted to keep spending unchanged, and 42 percent said they would like it increased.But at the same time, the poll found significant support for certain policies that would limit the program, such as requiring enrollees to work. More than…

A man in Wayne County, Michigan won over a million dollars in the lottery after playing the same numbers year after year — and said he now plans on taking an “extended family vacation.”  The man, 54, who did not reveal his identity, told the Michigan Lottery that his $1.3 million jackpot win was a “dream come true.” His winning ticket was drawn on Jan. 8.LOTTERY WINNER WON’T GIVE BROTHER BIG CHUNK OF MONEY AS FAMILY IS TORN APART: ‘ACCUSED ME OF BEING SELFISH’He bought the winning Lotto 47 ticket at a liquor store in Taylor, Michigan, southwest of Detroit. “I have…

A Berlin nightclub habitué of my acquaintance has admonished me, more than once, not to go to concerts or parties without earplugs; too many D.J.s now crank to dangerous decibels, so have your fun and save your hearing. I forgot his advice ahead of “Doom: House of Hope,” an evening-length spectacle of attitude and abjection by the German artist and choreographer Anne Imhof, and may have developed tinnitus as a result.Your ears are not the only organs that may suffer if you come to the Park Avenue Armory, where Imhof’s massive performance work has been one of the most anticipated…