Singapore plays matchmaker to public officers

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong put families at the centre of a key speech in Aug where he unveiled one of the world’s most generous attempts to get people to have more babies and make public housing more accessible. Singapore’s governnment is playing cupid to public officers in their dating journey. With more Singaporeans marrying late…

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FTC probing top AI firms over product safety concerns

The agency is preparing to send formal demands for information to the companies as part of a probe into whether firms are abiding by consumer protection laws. Federal Trade Commission is scrutinising OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies about the safety of their products amid high-profile cybersecurity incidents, said a person familiar with the…

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In 2023, New York mother Casey McIntyre arranged a fundraiser to erase strangers’ medical bills after her death; by December 2024, her memorial campaign had funded more than $120 million in debt relief

Before dying from stage four ovarian cancer at age 38, New York mother Casey McIntyre arranged a final message that turned her personal loss into financial relief for tens of thousands of strangers across the United States. By December 2024, the viral memorial campaign created in her honor had raised millions of dollars. The money…

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Indian family in Plano calls police as Texas journalist Sara Gonzales knocks door with H-1B abuse allegation: ‘I was terrified’

Sara Gonzales visited the house of one Rajender Rao Bairineni and accused him of H-1B abuse. The family called 911. An Indian family living in Plano called the police when journalist Sara Gonzales visited their house with her H-1B allegations, as she had been doing for the past few months. Sara revealed that she got…

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A Phoenix man owned a historic house for 51 years before Arizona State University tried to take it for a medical campus; after public opposition, the university dropped its case and let the home stay

Arizona State University has dropped an eminent domain lawsuit that sought to take a 124-year-old historic home in downtown Phoenix. Widespread public opposition led university officials to let the property remain intact. The Arizona Board of Regents, acting for Arizona State University, filed court papers seeking immediate possession of the historic Louis Emerson House for…

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