President Trump on Monday highlighted his efforts to expand school choice for American families at a "Back to School" event at the White House as millions of children across the country prepare to return to school.
The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it wants to charge a new $103,000 fee for companies seeking to give jobs to high-skilled foreign guest workers.
As children return to school across the U.S., the Trump administration is spending $25 million on farm-to-school grants and $70 million for schools to upgrade their cafeterias to cook nutritious meals.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said that holding elections amid Russia's war with Ukraine would "destroy" the country. "I believe that if we want to destroy the country, then we can move towards elections during this kind of war," Zelensky told reporters. The president said that elections "in general pose major risks," noting that...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Monday threatened to cut the province’s power exports to the U.S. as a trade war with President Trump plays out publicly for a second time. Ford told reporters “everything is on the table” when it comes to retaliatory measures against the White House in response to failed trade talks and...
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump administration lays out new $103K fee proposal for H-1B visas The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a new proposed rule for H-1B visas on Monday that would charge a $103,265 fee for all workers seeking to gain employment in the U.S. who are subject to the...
Activist David Hogg on Sunday said he finds recent media focus on left-wing streamer Hasan Piker “kind of weird.” “To be honest with you, I find it kind of weird. Like he's a streamer. This guy is not an elected official, and there's a lot of elected officials out there that are saying incredibly horrible...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday signaled its plans to appeal a ruling requiring the department to unredact various documents from the Epstein files in a suit brought by attorney and independent journalist Katie Phang. The preliminary injunction, entered in June, orders redactions be removed in key documents of interest in the files, including “at...
Nearly all Senate Armed Services Committee minority members on Monday called on the panel’s head to hold a hearing with Pentagon leadership on the impact that extended deployments in support of the Iran war are having on U.S. service members. “Recent reports of sailors suffering from severe mental health issues amid deteriorating conditions on the...
The Supreme Court lifted a judge’s block on President Trump’s executive order adding to mail voting requirements, removing a key roadblock that prevented the policy from going into effect for the midterms. Over the public dissents of the three liberal justices, the high court said Monday that the judge had no authority to block Trump’s...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday that the Trump administration’s economic pressure on Iran is hurting the regime “the most right now” but did not rule out the U.S. military resuming airstrikes if necessary. “If we need to use kinetic strikes, we'll use them. If Iran is foolish enough to overplay their hand or...
Tom Barrack, President Trump’s U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria and Iraq, on Sunday walked back comments he made last week suggesting that Israel "still" occupies the Golan Heights in violation of United Nations resolutions, which contradict the president's position. Barrack made the remark Friday in an interview with Lebanese Australian entrepreneur Mario Nawfal....
