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California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants provides cash to elderly, blind and disabled immigrants

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The Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says it is opening an investigation into a state-funded California program that provides financial assistance to some people who legally migrated to the US as the White House continues pursuing a crackdown on immigration.

For years, California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) has provided monthly cash assistance to elderly, blind and disabled immigrants with legal status, a much-needed lifeline for vulnerable permanent residents, refugees, people granted asylum and others. Yet, in announcing its investigation Monday into the program, DHS accused the program of “providing federal benefits” to undocumented immigrants, echoing unproven claims circulating among the US’s political rightwing.

South Carolina officials investigating death of Eric Slate, 52, and conditions of the petting zoo owned by his brother

Officials in South Carolina are investigating the death of a man who was believed to have been killed while fighting a kangaroo in an enclosure at a children’s petting zoo.

Eric Slate, 52, died of “multiple blunt [force] injuries”, according to Tamara Willard, the chief deputy coroner of Horry county, as reported by WPDE News.

Social media has been fun for the first time in years. But the joy of this moment is about more than just jokes

While most good Catholics spent the early days of this week in solemn contemplation, praying that the church’s new leader would be a person of character and someone who could unite us in these tense, ungodly times, the rest of us were on X cackling at our screens and reposting chimney memes.

Ringleader Orlin Roussev sentenced to nearly 11 years for his role in operations that put lives and national security at risk

Six Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia in Britain have been jailed at the Old Bailey.

Orlin Roussev, 47, who was the leader of the ring and had pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 10 years and eight months for his role in executing six “sophisticated” operations that risked national security and the safety of the public.

Featuring pharaohs and sustainable design, the $1bn museum in Giza, Egypt, is finally opening after years of delays

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Lawyers for hip-hop mogul claim alleged sex-trafficking incidents were consensual relationships

Prosecutors in the high-profile racketeering and sex-trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs declared during opening statements on Monday morning that “there was another side” to the hip-hop mogul, saying that he “ran a criminal enterprise” and noting that three women would testify during the trial who can speak to Combs’s alleged coercion and/or sexual misconduct.

Combs, 55, was arrested in September 2024 and has been charged with one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking and two counts of transportation for prostitution –  all felony charges.

Health policy experts support the ‘most favored nation’ plan but doubt it will withstand likely legal challenges

The White House is unveiling an aggressive drug pricing strategy targeting pharmaceutical companies, promising to dramatically cut prescription drug costs for American consumers.

Donald Trump condemned the current pricing system as a “redistribution” that has allowed drugmakers to exploit US patients and signed an executive order that he says will lead to matching lower drug prices abroad.

If you don’t appreciate your success when completing a tough project, these tips can change the way you think

Every time I complete a professional project, the dominant emotion I feel is relief – relief that I didn’t fail, and that something I did was “good enough”.

But do I appreciate my success or have pride in my achievement? Nope. I just move on to the next task. Relishing the accomplishment feels superfluous, because I’ve only done what’s expected of me.

• Player’s Dodge collided with Kia on Saturday afternoon
• 78-year-old woman also killed in collision

Miami linebacker Adarius Hayes has been released from hospital after a collision that killed two children on Saturday afternoon in his hometown of Largo, Florida.

Largo police said Hayes’s Dodge Durango collided with a Kia Soul that was making a left turn, killing the 78-year-old driver of the Kia along with two of her passengers, Jabari Elijah Solomon, 10, and four-year-old Charlie Herbert Solomon Riveria.

As nuclear war became a real possibility, Trump tasked Marco Rubio and JD Vance to contact the feuding countries

Indian surface-to-air missiles were already soaring towards Pakistan’s most significant military bases when the first call came from the US.

It was 4am in Islamabad and Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state and recently appointed US national security adviser, was on the line to the man everyone knew was calling the shots in Pakistan: army chief Gen Asim Munir.