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Federal Judge Throws Out Trump's $100,000 H-1B Fee, Calling It an Illegal Tax

WASHINGTON, June 9 -- For the Indian software engineer who watched a US job offer evaporate the week the fee landed last autumn, the arithmetic was brutal and simple. A visa that had cost a couple of ... Read More


Powerful 7.8 Earthquake Kills Dozens in Southern Philippines on First Day of School

GENERAL SANTOS, June 9 -- The school year here was only a few hours old when the ground heaved. Children who had just come back from the summer break were sent running into the streets as walls cracke... Read More


Pentagon Brands Alibaba, BYD and Baidu 'Military Companies' as US-China Tech War Widens

BEIJING, June 9 -- The electric hatchback that outsold Tesla last year, the app a billion people use to shop and pay, the search engine that has become one of China's biggest bets on artificial intell... Read More


Venezuela's Acting Leader Lands in Istanbul, and Erdogan Answers Washington With an Embrace

ISTANBUL, June 9 -- The woman now running Venezuela stepped off her plane in Istanbul on Monday to a minister's welcome, and within hours Recep Tayyip Erdogan met her with the kind of public embrace W... Read More


Trump's Justice Department Launches Its Largest-Ever Push to Strip Citizenship

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- For most of the people who raise their right hand and take the oath, the certificate that follows has felt final. The Justice Department spent three decades treating it that way,... Read More


Border Czar Vows ICE Surge in New York After State Bans Masked Agents

NEW YORK, June 8 -- A federal officer in a balaclava, badge tucked out of view, waiting in a courthouse hallway for a man with a scheduled immigration check-in. That is the figure New York's legislatu... Read More


Palladyne AI to Manufacture Israeli Suicide Drones for US Military Under Exclusive Pentagon Deal

New Delhi, June 8 -- The deal was not announced from a major defense contractor's gleaming headquarters. It came from a Salt Lake City company with $7.8 million in annual revenue announcing that it wo... Read More


Epstein Files Reveal Agent Who Sent Models to Convicted Sex Offender After 2009 Jail Release

NEW YORK, June 8 -- The email arrived while Jeffrey Epstein was still under house arrest. A friend of the convicted sex offender was proposing a gift to mark his release from jail: a model, 5-foot-11,... Read More


Trump Pulls His Mic and Walks Out of Meet the Press After Welker Presses Him on Jan. 6 and Rigged Elections

CHIPPEWA FALLS, June 8 -- The breaking point was not the rain hammering the barn's metal roof, nor the technical glitches that interrupted the sitting twice. It was a single question Kristen Welker ha... Read More


Ramaphosa Orders Immigration Courts, Biometric ID and Employer Crackdown as South Africa Braces for June 30 Deadline

PRETORIA, June 8 -- For weeks, the confrontations had been spreading across South Africa's provinces: groups of men stopping other men on the street to demand proof of their nationality. By Sunday eve... Read More