WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is weighing requiring all foreign students applying to study in the United States to undergo social media vetting — a significant expansion of previous such efforts according to media reports. In preparation for such required vetting, the administration is ordering U.S. embassies and consular sections to pause scheduling new interviews for such student visa applicants.

In a dramatic statement that rekindled the trade war frenzy, President Donald Trump threatened to place a substantial 25% tariff on Apple products unless CEO Tim Cook promises to relocate iPhone production to the United States. “I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhones that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else. If that is not the case, a tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S”.

In a setback for India’s agricultural exports, at least 15 mango shipments from India have been rejected by US authorities at key entry points, including airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Atlanta, due to documentation irregularities. Exporters were given the choice of either destroying the mangoes or bearing the high cost of re-exporting them to India. Given the perishable nature of mangoes and the prohibitive expense of return shipping, all affected exporters opted to dispose of the fruit within the United States, according to a media report.

NEW ORLEANS (CNN) - Just after midnight Friday, a corrections monitoring technician in New Orleans stepped away for food. When he left, the Orleans Justice Center had been in lockdown since 10:30 p.m., as it usually was, with inmates expected to be in their cells for the night. But in the technician’s absence, several inmates began tampering with the door of Cell Delta 1006. They tugged and pulled until it broke open, and snuck into the handicap cell. Then, a man squeezed through a small hole in the wall behind a metal toilet. 10 escaped.

WASHINGTON - President Trump said he told Apple CEO Tim Cook that he doesn’t want tech giant building its products in India. “I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said. “I don’t want you building in India.” The comments at a business event Qatar come as Trump said India had agreed to effectively drop all tariffs on U.S. goods as part of a potential trade deal. Trump had previously suggested that a ceasefire deal between India and Pakistan following a bout of recent violence between the two was predicated on a trade truce

NEW DELHI - India is looking at levying import duties on some products made in the United States to counter Washington's tariffs on steel and aluminium products, a document submitted to the World Trade Organization shows. "The proposed suspension of concessions or other obligations takes the form of an increase in tariffs on selected products originating in the United States," the document dated May 12 said. It did not say what kind of products might be subjected to tariffs.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore’s nine-month-stay in space finally ended on March 19, after they landed back on Earth on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. They were “rescued” by another astronaut Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.

President Trump's imposition of blanket 25% tariffs on all goods imported from Canada and Mexico drew swift vows of retaliation from the United States' immediate neighbors on Tuesday. China, which was hit with a second 10% tariff on U.S. exports since Mr. Trump took office, bringing the total levy to 20%, immediately announced its own reciprocal measures — deliberately targeting America's agricultural sector.

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NEW DELHI - The country’s first Sikh prime minister, he introduced free-market reforms that turned India into an economic powerhouse and sought reconciliation with Pakistan. Manmohan Singh, a soft-spoken and cerebral former Indian prime minister who was credited with far-reaching changes that propelled his country’s emergence as an economic powerhouse able to compete with China, died on Thursday in New Delhi. He was 92.