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[Regnum] In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a bride named Sitara armed herself with a knife on her wedding night and held her groom captive for three days, threatening to kill him. This was reported by the News18 TV channel.
The girl was forced into marriage by her parents to 26-year-old Nishad, although she loved another man. After the wedding, when the newlyweds were alone, the bride took a knife and threatened to cut the groom into 35 pieces if he touched her, according to the June 25 article.
That’s awfully specific…
"I was freezing. I sat on the couch all night, and she stayed on the bed with a knife <…> I couldn't sleep, afraid that she might stab me in my sleep. I read about such cases in the newspapers. I thought I might become another headline," Nishad complained.
What a strange country, that that is a standing headline.
Three days later, the groom told his parents about it, they contacted the bride's family, a general meeting was held with the participation of elders. The girl was asked to accept the marriage, but she did not allow the appointed husband to approach her.
The tense relationship lasted for a month, then the girl ran away at night, climbing over a fence. Her actions were condemned by both families.
"If I ever marry again, it will be to someone who truly understands the meaning of marriage. Sitara never accepted me," Nishad said.
[GEO.TV] A powerful thunderstorm brought both respite from the heat and disruption to daily life across Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... late on Thursday, as more than 200 power feeders tripped, plunging large parts of the city into darkness.
According to reports, several areas of the port city, including Surjani Town, Malir, North Karachi, I I Chundrigar Road, Gulshan-e-Hadeed, and Gadap, witnessed heavy downpours accompanied by lightning and thunder. Rain also lashed Clifton, Defence, Scheme 33, North Nazimabad, Model Colony, Safoora, Korangi, Landhi, and Saadi Town.
In the aftermath of the brief heavy downpours, residents in many parts of the megacity were left without electricity.
The spokesperson of the city's power provider, K-Electric, confirmed feeder trips in Gulshan-e-Maymar, Surjani, Nazimabad, and Gulshan-e-Iqbal, leading to outages in New Karachi, Jamshed Town, the old city area, and surrounding localities.
Maripur, Lyari, Keamari, Hawks Bay, and Quaidabad were among other areas also impacted by outages. In the meantime, the power supply was also suspended in PIB Colony, PECHS, and parts of Korangi.
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A series of really load booms and a fireball splintering were seen from Atlanta to Ft. Gordon Ga around 6-26-25
It had many seeing it, wondering if we had incoming from, NK, Russia, or Iran.
NO pre-alert, alarms or warnings were given to the public.
So much for Space Watch.
[TikTok] Meteorite crashes to Earth.
These are videos I found online of the meteor today that passed over the eastern United States.
Around 12:24–12:30 p.m. Eastern Time on June 26, 2025, a bright fireball streaked across the sky over parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The event was captured on multiple cameras and witnessed by hundreds. A flash was detected by satellite, and a loud sonic boom was reported across several counties.
The meteor is believed to have exploded midair near the Georgia–South Carolina border, and officials are investigating possible impact sites. NASA-affiliated scientists confirmed a meteorite fall near Blacksville, Georgia, and searches are underway for debris. The phenomenon lit up the sky in broad daylight and was powerful enough to rattle homes and trigger emergency calls.
[FoxNews] DOJ continues enforcement of Trump's executive orders ensuring taxpayer benefits aren't diverted to illegal aliens
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint challenging laws in Minnesota that provide free and reduced in-state tuition to illegal aliens, claiming the laws are unconstitutional.
Under federal law, higher education institutions are prohibited from providing benefits to illegal aliens not offered to U.S. citizens.
According to the DOJ, Minnesota’s laws unconstitutionally discriminate against U.S. citizens and are in direct conflict with federal law.
"No state can be allowed to treat Americans like second-class citizens in their own country by offering financial benefits to illegal aliens," Attorney General Pam Bondi said. "The Department of Justice just won on this exact issue in Texas, and we look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first."
By filing the lawsuit, the DOJ is demanding that Minnesota stop the enforcement of a law requiring public colleges and universities to provide in-state tuition rates and free tuition based on certain income circumstances to immigrants in the country illegally who maintain state residency.
Federal law prohibits higher education facilities from providing education benefits to illegal immigrants, which are not offered to U.S. citizens.
The lawsuit comes just weeks after the DOJ took actions against Texas for providing similar benefits to illegal immigrants.
Both lawsuits have been filed in response to two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump since returning to the Oval Office in January.
The executive orders were signed to ensure illegal immigrants cannot receive taxpayer benefits or preferential treatment.
One of the orders, "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders," ordered all agencies to "ensure, to the maximum extent permitted by law, that no taxpayer-funded benefits go to unqualified aliens."
The other order, "Protecting American Communities From Criminal Aliens," directs officials to "take appropriate action to stop the enforcement of State and local laws, regulations, policies, and practices favoring aliens over any groups of American citizens that are unlawful, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenforceable, including State laws that provide in-State higher education tuition to aliens but not to out-of-State American citizens."
Ultimately, Texas complied with the DOJ and stopped enforcing the Texas Dream Act, which was originally introduced in February 2001.
The legislation, signed by Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, June 16, 2001, removed federal immigration status as a factor in determining eligibility to pay in-state tuition at Texas public colleges and universities for students who graduate from a Texas high school and who meet the minimum residency, academic and registration criteria.
While the state immediately stopped enforcement, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has since intervened.
On Tuesday, the ACLU of Texas, alongside organizations like the Texas Civil Rights Project and Democracy Forward, filed a motion to intervene in the litigation to defend the constitutionality of the Texas Dream Act against the DOJ.
The ACLU said the DOJ’s order was agreed to by Texas without proper process and creates "sweeping uncertainty" for students and colleges.
"As students prepare to attend school in the fall, the failure of neither the DOJ nor the attorney general to defend the Texas Dream Act threatens their ability to afford tuition – and suddenly threatens their dreams of pursuing higher education," the ACLU said in a press release. "By moving to intervene, these groups and individuals hope to challenge this abusive litigation strategy and defend the Texas Dream Act, which has enabled a generation of Texans to grow their careers and become leaders in our communities."
[Real Clear Investigations] Topline: The United States gave $960 million in foreign aid to Kenya in 2024, but the country’s auditor-general, Nancy Gathungu, says Kenya is struggling to use the money it already has.
Fourteen major government projects had a total of $4 billion in funding over the last five years but left projects partially completed with $2.4 billion of the funds unused, according to a press conference from Gathungu covered by The Eastleigh Voice and Capital News.
Key facts: Gathungu told reporters that the 14 projects now risk lapsing without achieving their goals.
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[Regnum] The dollar has fallen sharply due to doubts about the independence of the Federal Reserve System (FRS) after reports of a possible change in its leadership by US President Donald Trump. This was reported on June 26 by Reuters.
Earlier it became known that the American leader could replace the current head of the Federal Reserve System, Jerome Powell, by the fall with someone who would agree to lower rates.
"From a market perspective, of course, not only does this undermine the Fed's credibility and independence, it also poses a risk to the US rate outlook," Nick Rees, head of macro research at Monex Europe, told the publication.
Kieran Williams, head of Asian FX at InTouch Capital Markets, said markets would likely take a dim view of any premature move to appoint a successor to Powell, especially if it appeared politically motivated.
On April 17, Trump said Jerome Powell should leave his post as soon as possible. He responded by assuring that he would not leave. The American leader called the Fed chief "Mr. Too Late" and "a big loser." Trump called on Powell to cut interest rates immediately.
On April 22, amid statements from the head of the White House to the head of the regulator, the dollar index DXY, which reflects the value of the American currency in relation to six major US trading partners, reached its minimum value since March 2022 - 97.92 points.
The currency basket includes the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Canadian dollar, Swedish krona and Swiss franc. The index is calculated by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
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[Regnum] The United States has reduced spending on Ukraine for the 2026 fiscal year. This was announced on June 26 by a Pentagon representative.
"In particular, two funds were cut - the coalition support fund and the Ukraine security assistance initiative," a senior US military official said at a briefing.
Earlier, the US House Appropriations Committee approved the country's new military budget by a vote of 36 to 27. The document does not contain any articles on military aid to Kyiv.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on June 12, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said that the West has no plan to ensure Ukraine's "victory" in the conflict with Russia. According to him, none of the Western leaders have yet presented a plan that would allow "squeezing out the Russian army" from the territories taken under control during the special operation.
On June 14, Hegseth announced cuts to U.S. spending on Ukraine in the next budget year. Later that day, Kyiv regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky said such words hurt more than bullets because they “hit the morale of Ukraine.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously noted that no foreign arms supplies to the Kiev regime are capable of changing the course of the special operation, and the military aid provided to Ukraine by the West indicates the participation of these countries in the conflict.
[Real Clear Investigations] Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census.
President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys general and Republican legislators, the second Trump administration is determined "to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted," White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said last month.
What Miller didn’t mention are the political implications of the administration’s move. It could have significant political implications because the census count is used to apportion House seats, determine the number of votes each state gets in the Electoral College for selecting the president, and drive the flow of trillions of dollars in government funds.
Some immigration researchers project that including noncitizens in the census count disproportionately benefits Democratic states with large illegal alien populations. A recent study counters that, based on 2020 census figures, there would have been a negligible shift to the political map had the U.S. government excluded noncitizens from that count. But looking backward, those researchers found, red states would have benefited under the administration’s desired census counting shift. Had authorities excluded such migrants from the 2010 census, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Ohio and North Carolina all would have gained one seat in the House, while California would have lost three seats, and Texas and Florida would have each lost one seat — with the total number of Electoral College votes allotted each state changing accordingly.
Since the first census in 1790, the nation has counted not only citizens but also residents to determine such representation. In addition to citing its long history, defenders of the practice say it is only fair that states should be given the power and resources to represent and serve everyone within their borders.
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[Regnum] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not review the results of the women's boxing competitions at the 2024 Olympics. This was announced on June 26 by the organization's president, Kirsty Coventry.
"Will there be retrospective decisions on the Paris Olympics regarding women's boxing? We will not do anything retrospectively," she said.
Coventry noted that the main task of the IOC working group is to look to the future while learning from the past.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on June 26, the President of the International Boxing Association (IBA) Umar Kremlev called on the Algerian boxer Iman Kheli, who failed the gender test, to return the gold medal from the 2024 Summer Olympics.
On March 15, former IOC President Thomas Bach said that the gender scandal involving boxers at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris was caused by fake news from Russia.
Last July, the IOC cleared two transgender athletes, Khelif and Lin Yuting from Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), to compete in women's boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. According to IOC spokesman Mark Adams, in this case the transgender athletes "were found to be women."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Real Clear Investigations] Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census.
