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Trump administration proposes six-figure price tag for new H-1B visas

The Department of Homeland Security proposed making the $103,265 H-1B visa fee permanent after a federal judge blocked the temporary charge.

Do LA homeless agency’s luxury digs have a view of encampment squalor?

Talk about your ivory tower. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority –– LA’s central...

Mayhem in the Middle East hasn’t dampened Israel’s tourism industry

“You wouldn’t know the country was in chaos. Beaches are packed. The big obstacle...

Team Trump moves to asphyxiate the Iranian menace — hooray!

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent fired a powerful shot across Tehran's bow Monday by rolling...

Mark Ruffalo hulks out with hate with antisemitic rant on Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Mark Ruffalo chose to speak up on the Paramount merger with Warner Bros. by...

7 reasons a government shutdown is likely this fall

A perfect storm of factors is brewing in Washington, making a government shutdown on Sept. 30 likely, with both parties risking economic consequences and public backlash.

AI poses greater threat to entry-level jobs, new study finds

Entry-level jobs for workers between 22 and 25 years old have declined by 13 percent since the widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to a Stanford University study.  “While our main estimates may be influenced by factors other than generative AI, our results are consistent with the hypothesis that generative AI has begun...

COVID is spiking again, especially in these states

Testing sewage and wastewater, albeit gross, can give us a better idea of how many people are sick with COVID in a certain area.

We are losing the basis of our civic discourse

If you never learn the habit of separating people from their ideas, disagreement becomes personal and dissenters become enemies to be silenced.

Ford recalls 355K+ trucks over instrument panel error: NHTSA 

Ford Motor Company is recalling over 355,000 trucks due to an error with the instrument panel display, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The recall encompasses 2025 and 2026 models, including F-550 SD, F-450 SD, F-350 SD, F-250 SD and 2025 F-150 vehicles. “An instrument panel display that does not show critical...

Minnesota senator tells RFK Jr. ‘stop peddling bulls‑‑‑’ on mass shootings 

Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) blasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday after he suggested psychiatric drugs given to children could partly be to blame for school shootings. "I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do," Smith wrote on the...

RFK Jr. says ‘aggregation of causes’ likely leads to autism

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday he thinks his agency’s forthcoming report on autism will reveal an “aggregation of causes” that lead to the neurological disorder. “This is a crisis,” Kennedy said in a “Fox & Friends” interview. “There is not a single cause. There are many, many — there's...

Minneapolis school shooting survivor in ‘state of complete fear,’ father says

The father of a child who survived Wednesday's school shooting in Minneapolis says his daughter is in a "state of complete fear" and "traumatized," adding that stronger gun regulations are needed in the wake of the deadly incident. “She's in a state of complete fear right now, traumatized. And we just don't know right now....

Becerra on CDC resignations: ‘People will die’

Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday lamented the resignations of four senior leaders at the Center for Disease Control (CDC), warning of major concerns for public health. "I worked alongside the three leading scientists at the CDC who resigned tonight," Becerra, who served in the Biden administration, wrote in a...

Ending birthright citizenship would create a chaotic nightmare

This wouldn’t just be a paperwork problem. It would create a logistical and legal nightmare.

Trump mulls GOP convention before midterms

President Trump on Thursday floated the idea of having the Republican Party hold a convention just ahead of the 2026 midterms, as Democrats are reportedly mulling a similar idea.  “The Republican Party is doing really well. Millions of people have joined us in our quest to MAKE AMERICA, GREAT AGAIN. We won every aspect of...

New York Times angers readers with mini crossword paywall

Fans of The New York Times mini crossword game were met with a surprise Thursday morning when they found a piece of their online morning ritual is now behind a paywall. "Finding out the nyt mini crossword is now behind a paywall has done irreparable damage to my spirit," one user wrote on the social...

RFK Jr. defends CDC shake-up after high-level resignations

RFK Jr. cites abortion, vaccines in call to revisit CDC 'priorities'

Nebraska’s ‘Cornhusker Clink’ is no joke. It’s a harmful political stunt. 

Immigration detention is a serious matter, not something to be branded like a theme park.

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