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DHS Wants $70,000 to Let Foreign Grads Work Here. The Tax Break That Makes Them Cheaper Than Americans Stays Put.
The Trump administration wants colleges to pay $70,000 before a foreign student can work in America under the Optional Practical Training program. But DHS's own 35-page proposal...
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FDA Gives a Judge a Date for Its Abortion Pill Report, but No Date for a Decision
The FDA told a federal judge Wednesday that its abortion pill safety report will not be finished until March 2027, more than a year after Health Secretary...
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Montana Judge Struck Its Ballot Birth-Year Check. His Own Order Says No One Was Kept From Voting.
A Montana judge has blocked the state's new birth-year check on absentee ballot envelopes, just as ballots go out for the Nov. 3 midterms. News reports say...
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Mall of America Plot Affidavit Names a 4-Person "Revival" Chat and Says the FBI's Rifle Was Inert
The 18-year-old accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired mass shooting at the Mall of America told an FBI informant about a "small group like 4 ppl from america"...
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Maduro Indictment Says Americans Were Kept as Bargaining Chips, and an Alleged Torturer Was Still on Duty After His Capture
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, with conspiracy to commit torture on Thursday, including the torture of American citizens held in...
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Fed Minutes Show Half of August's Inflation "Cooldown" Came From a New Formula
The Federal Reserve's own staff saw core inflation stuck at 3.4% in August, and then Washington changed how it measures prices. Minutes released Wednesday show the Fed...
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Trump's Columbus Day Proclamation Quotes a Cross Columbus Raised Two Months After Landfall
President Trump's 2026 Columbus Day proclamation, signed Wednesday, says Columbus raised "a mighty cross" when he first made landfall in the Bahamas and quotes him dedicating the...
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Trump Says Only Tom Cotton Blocks Permanent Daylight Time. All Four Arkansas House Republicans Voted No.
President Trump says "almost everybody" wants permanent daylight saving time "except for Tom Cotton," and on Saturday he posted the Arkansas senator's cellphone number so voters could...
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Every Network Trimmed Trump's "Take Out Los Angeles" Clip. ABC Cut the Line About Gas Prices.
ABC, CBS and NBC all told morning viewers on Oct. 6 that President Trump suggested Iran "take out" Los Angeles or San Diego. The networks' own transcripts...
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DOJ Says You Can Carry in Park Visitor Centers. Big Bend Says It Will "Strictly Enforce" the Ban.
The Justice Department told a federal judge last week that law-abiding gun owners can already carry in national park visitor centers, so a lawsuit over the ban...
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DOJ Moves to Strip 40 Citizenships, Including a Navy Spy a Jury Acquitted of Naturalization Fraud
The Justice Department is asking federal judges to strip U.S. citizenship from 40 naturalized Americans, including a former Navy sailor who sold warship secrets to Chinese intelligence....
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Alito's New Book Borrows a Saint's Words for Silenced Believers. That Sermon Was About a Comeback.
Justice Samuel Alito's first book, "So Ordered," went on sale Oct. 6 with a blunt warning: the Supreme Court's 2015 same-sex marriage ruling was "perhaps the decisive...