For the first time in fifteen years, Indian students have surpassed Chinese students as the largest group of foreign students in the United States. There are currently 331,602 Indian foreign students in the United States, up 23% from the previous academic year, while there are 277,398 Chinese international students, down 4.2%, according to new data issued by the State Department in collaboration with the Institute of foreign Education. With numbers considerably under 50,000, South Korea, Canada, and Taiwan are far behind as the next most popular countries of origin for international students. Chinese international students, who have historically made up the largest student body at American schools and universities, have been declining year since the pandemic. During the same period after C...

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Two underwater communication cables were cut in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, prompting U.S. allies to warn of "hybrid warfare" amid fears that these could be the most recent sabotage attempts against the West in its conflict with Russia. Following the discovery of a rupture in a 730-mile cable between Germany and Finland on Monday, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius stated on Tuesday that "no one believes that these cables were cut accidentally". "We have to state, without knowing specifically who it came from, that it is a hybrid action," he stated. Additionally, we must presume that it is sabotage even though we are not yet aware of this. Following the discovery of damage to a different cable that connects the Baltic country to Sweden's Gotland Island on Sunday, Lithuania's navy annou...

Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will appoint Mehmet Oz, a TV physician and former Pennsylvania Senate candidate, to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Trump stated in a statement that Oz would collaborate with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist whom Trump wants to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, to "take on the illness industrial complex." "He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades," Trump said. In 2020, Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon, came under fire for advocating the use of the antimalarial medication hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. Before his unsuccessful Senate run in 2022, Oz's TV show ran from 2009. John Fetterman defeated O...

According to people close with his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump has been calling for support for Matt Gaetz, his choice to head the Justice Department, who is already encountering resistance from certain Republican senators. According to a transition official, Trump has been actively contacting Republican senators to solicit their support for Gaetz. In a separate post on X, the former Twitter, vice president-elect JD Vance said he was assisting Trump in interviewing people, including to lead the FBI. Later, the tweet was removed. Chris Wray, the current head of the FBI, is ready for the potential that the president-elect may try to replace him, even though his tenure doesn't end until 2027, ten years after Trump appointed him. Voting against Biden's judicial candidates who are st...

On Monday, soccer players Samantha Kerr and Kristie Mewis revealed they were expecting their first child. In 2025, Mewis-Kerr will have a baby! The pair shared a combined Instagram photo. Mewis, who currently plays for West Ham United FC, was a midfielder for the U.S. women's national soccer team more than fifty times. Kerr plays forward for Chelsea FC and the women's national soccer team of Australia. According to London-based magazine Gafferin 2022, the pair first connected online during the epidemic after meeting on the field at a National Women's Soccer League championship match in 2019. The couple then disclosed their engagement in an exclusive People magazine article last year. According to People, Mewes claimed that Kerr, who is regarded as one of the greatest strikers in the world...

According to records, the man who is suspected of killing three people in a gruesome stabbing spree on Monday was free on bond for other alleged crimes in New Jersey and had been freed from a New York City jail a month prior. Ramon Rivera, 51, was formally informed that he faces three charges of first-degree murder at his initial appearance before a Manhattan judge on Tuesday. Rivera was "wearing a grey sweatshirt that appeared to have bloodstains on it and dark pants," according to a criminal complaint, and was carrying two knives when he was apprehended by police on Monday. According to the lawsuit, Rivera "admitted in substance" that "he stabbed the three" victims after speaking with NYPD Detective Yeoman Castro. On Tuesday, it was not possible to quickly contact Rivera's court-appointe...

Days after the United States let Ukraine to launch an attack inside Russia using American missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly lowered the threshold for his nation's use of nuclear weapons on Tuesday. Moscow could launch a nuclear strike if attacked by a non-nuclear nation backed by a nuclear state, according to the Kremlin, which said Putin had approved an updated nuclear doctrine, a document that regulates how Russia utilizes its nuclear weapons. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukraine launched its first attack on Russian territory with long-range weaponry provided by the United States, using an ATACMS missile to strike a military installation in the Bryansk region. Five ATACMS missiles were shot down by Russian air defenses, but pieces of another landed onto th...

According to a recent NBC News Decision Desk study of precinct-level data, low attendance in overwhelmingly Democratic cities was a major factor in Vice President Kamala Harris' defeats and President-elect Donald Trump's victories in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Harris's most obvious route to victory heading into Election Day was to win all three of the traditional blue wall states. She ultimately lost in all three, and the almost finished vote count in those states demonstrates how the number of votes decreased in some of the most Democratic-friendly regions of those states as compared to 2020. Harris's percentage of the vote and the percentage change in the total number of votes cast in the presidential campaign relative to the total number of votes cast in 2020 are depicted i...

According to a recent NBC News Decision Desk study of precinct-level data, low attendance in overwhelmingly Democratic cities was a major factor in Vice President Kamala Harris' defeats and President-elect Donald Trump's victories in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Harris's most obvious route to victory heading into Election Day was to win all three of the traditional blue wall states. She ultimately lost in all three, and the almost finished vote count in those states demonstrates how the number of votes decreased in some of the most Democratic-friendly regions of those states as compared to 2020. Harris's percentage of the vote and the percentage change in the total number of votes cast in the presidential campaign relative to the total number of votes cast in 2020 are depicted i...