LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Trump administration abruptly reversed course Tuesday, telling a federal judge in Boston that it was dropping a new policy that would have required international students to leave the U.S. if their colleges or universities were offering only online classes. The announcement was made without explanation in a hearing with U.S. District…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US government on Tuesday morning carried out the first federal execution in nearly two decades — despite objections from family members of the killer’s victims. Daniel Lewis Lee, who was convicted of killing a family of three, died by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, in the…
Gal Pissetzky, counsel for alleged international fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi, has said his client was illegally taken to the United States. Pissetzky of Pissetzky & Berliner said the Federal Bureau of Investigation kidnapped his client from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The Chicago-based lawyer argued that the Dubai Police should have extradited Abbas to…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump has formally moved to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). The president had made his intentions clear in late May, accusing the WHO of being under China’s control in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Despite calls from the EU and others, he said he would…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-International students who are pursuing degrees in the United States will have to leave the country or risk deportation if their universities switch to online-only courses, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday. The move may affect thousands of foreign students who come to the United States to attend universities or participate in…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak even as it has ravaged his nation, said Tuesday that he has COVID-19. Confirming his diagnosis to journalists in Brasilia on Tuesday, Bolsonaro said that he was suffering muscle aches, fatigue and a fever but otherwise felt “normal.”…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ronnie and Donnie Dayton, 68, were delighted to have surpassed the previous record of oldest living conjoined twins with the pair declaring it was “what we’ve dreamed about since we were kids” The oldest living set of conjoined twins died earlier on Saturday, July 4th, 2020 at a hospice, aged 68, it…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-John Bolton, a former United States national security adviser, has alleged that President Donald Trump once argued that the $1.5 billion annual aid given to Nigeria should be stopped. Bolton, in a book titled “In the Room Where It Happened”, alleged that the president also said funding for military operations in Afghanistan and…