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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man killed by federal immigration agents during a traffic stop in Houston this week, was not the intended target of the “enforcement operation”, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were reportedly seeking two people from Guatemala when they attempted to stop Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in the United States for 35 years, the New York Times reported.Salgado Araujo, who was on his way to work early on Tuesday morning, was driving three other people in a white van. After the shooting, the three men were taken…

RFLD has launched its Organisational Resilience Programme (ORP), an initiative that will provide 500 registered nonprofit organisations across Africa with the RFLD Management Suite, a comprehensive organisational management system valued at US$5,000, at no cost to participating organisations. The programme is designed to strengthen the operational resilience of nonprofits by helping them establish the systems and controls increasingly required by donors, development partners, and grant-making institutions. Many organizations delivering impactful work struggle to secure funding because they lack robust financial management, governance, safeguarding, and accountability systems. Through the Organisational Resilience Programme, RFLD seeks to bridge this gap by equipping nonprofits…

Sandra Lee trademarked semi-homemade cooking twenty years ago. Now the shortcut-plus-fresh method is the logic behind every viral food hack — and her Wheatley American Vodka collab for America’s 250th shows the legacy still working.Wheatley American VodkaSomewhere in America right now, someone is doctoring a boxed cake mix with a can of pie filling, calling it dessert, and filming the whole thing for an audience waiting on the recipe. Food hacks and cooking shortcuts have been a staple of TikTok culture for the past six years, but Sandra Lee popularized the concept on the Food Network in 2003 and believed…

As parts of the UK brace for another hot weekend, online adverts have been appearing for portable air conditioners claiming to be “designed by former Nasa engineers” and able to “cool a room in 90 seconds”.The adverts have emerged on platforms including Facebook and YouTube, but the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has now warned the products are often “too good to be true”.YouTuber Stuart Matthews, who bought several devices to test on his Proper DIY channel, told the BBC that despite paying £70 for one machine, it turned out to be “a small, simple fan worth only a few pounds”.The…

Keir Starmer has signalled he could hand out resignation honours when he leaves Downing Street, despite pledging three years ago he would not do so when he eventually stood down.The prime minister twice declined to rule out drawing up a list of honours when he stands down in just over 10 days’ time, to be succeeded by Andy Burnham.As the opposition leader in 2023, Starmer criticised Rishi Sunak for allowing Boris Johnson to hand out a series of awards – including knighthoods – to his political allies, saying it was difficult to justify, given the circumstances of Johnson’s departure.Asked at…

Nearly 150 years after gallium was first discovered and added to the periodic table, scientists at the University of Auckland have uncovered previously unknown details about the metal’s atomic structure and behavior. Gallium was discovered in 1875 by French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. It is best known for its unusually low melting point, which allows a gallium spoon to melt in a cup of hot tea. The metal also plays an essential role in semiconductors and many modern electronic technologies. The newly reported findings focus on how gallium behaves at the atomic level, revealing properties that challenge decades…

This summer’s World Cup has been one of the most fascinating on the pitch in recent memory. Not because of the teams. Because of two men.We can all admit that elite European football has become very tactical in recent years. Systems rule over individual moments. Rigidity trumps creative freedom, with stunning strikes replaced by methodically built tap-ins. That’s not to say that it’s wrong or not entertaining. But the narrative being built between Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe and the battle of their brilliance is what is making this World Cup must-watch. And deservedly so. Eight goals apiece for the…

Yoruba actor Olanrewaju “Baba Ijesha” James has brushed aside criticism over his recent public appearances, insisting he is unbothered by public opinion during a visit to National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) President Musiliu “MC Oluomo” Akinsanya. The actor, accompanied by his wife, fashion entrepreneur Abiodun Tokunbo, paid a courtesy visit to MC Oluomo in Abuja, where he described their relationship as a long-standing friendship and declared that “glory had met glory.” The visit came days after the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, publicly denied conferring the “Awada Konge Oduwa” chieftaincy title on Baba Ijesha, despite the actor’s earlier…

Governor Dauda Lawal as a panellist at the Arise News Town Hall Summit: Building a National Consensus for State Police & National Security Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has said that state police will go a long way toward tackling insecurity in the country by giving governors real authority as chief security officers of their states He made these remarks as a panellist at the Arise News Town Hall Summit: Building a National Consensus for State Police & National Security, held today at the Thisday Dome in Abuja. Governor Lawal observed that insecurity has persisted in the states because…

The initiative aligns with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the government’s emphasis on Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS). Through NEET-PA, students who have passed Class 10 from any recognised board, including those with a Sanskrit background, will be eligible to seek admission to the Pre-Ayurveda Gurukulam programme.