Republican Rep. Greg Steube of Florida has introduced legislation aimed at eliminating the nation’s controversial H-1B visa program. “Prioritizing foreign labor over the well-being and prosperity of American citizens undermines our values and national interests,” Steube said, according to a press release. “Our workers and young people continue to be displaced and disenfranchised by the H-1B … Read more
President warned prior to the vote that any Republican who voted against tariffs would ‘suffer the consequences’ The House on Wednesday passed the Save America Act, which would dramatically change voting regulations by requiring proof of citizenship at voter registration and significantly curtail mail-in voting. The legislation, which passed 218 to 213, faces an uphill … Read more
British asset management group’s deal with Nuveen will create one of world’s biggest fund managers Schroders has agreed a £9.9bn takeover by a US investor, ending two centuries of family ownership of the historic British asset management group. Chicago-based Nuveen will buy the City firm, it said on Thursday, in a deal that will create … Read more
Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing Follow us over on Bluesky | And get in touch: mail Tanya The skeleton event, in which Heraskevych was supposed to have been racing, is well underway at the Cortina Sliding Centre. After run one, Britain’s Matt Weston is currently in the lead, with … Read more
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced she was ending the work of a task force that sought to reform the U.S. intelligence community, including rooting out what she described as the politicization of intelligence gathering, after less than a year since its creation. Gabbard established the group in April, when it was also tasked … Read more
Former linebacker questions QB’s character Duo won Super Bowl together in 2005 season Joey Porter Sr says Ben Roethlisberger, the quarterback he won a Super Bowl with at the Pittsburgh Steelers, is not “a good person”. Porter was speaking on a podcast during Super Bowl week when he made the comments. He and Roethlisberger won … Read more
Actually undoing Trump’s tariff policy would ultimately require his approval, which was unlikely – key US politics stories from Wednesday 11 February at a glance Donald Trump had a warning for congressional Republicans Wednesday: any of them who joined an effort to rescind his tariffs on Canada would “seriously suffer the consequences come Election time”. … Read more
Marc Benioff’s remarks criticized as employees were reportedly planning to urge him to cancel business with agency Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO and co-founder, is facing growing criticism over a joke he made about US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) monitoring international employees during an event for the company. Employees publicly expressed outrage about Benioff’s … Read more
A federal judge in Louisiana has released four illegal immigrants with lengthy rap sheets that include convictions for murder and child sex crimes from law enforcement custody earlier this month. On Feb. 6, Judge John deGravelles, an Obama appointee who sits on the bench for the Middle District Court of Louisiana, granted the four defendants release … Read more
Six survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and two members of another accuser’s family said they felt “degraded” during Wednesday’s contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing, at which Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to face them and apologize
