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As H-1B visa holders navigate mounting uncertainty under Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, foreign tech workers now face a new threat: mass sabotage of the PERM process—crucial for securing U.S. green cards. A post on Team Blind, an anonymous professional forum, warns that organized groups are targeting labor market tests required for PERM certification by flooding job postings with bogus applications. The goal: derail visa applicants' chances by making it appear that qualified American workers are readily available. “This has created a big crisis for Indian H-1Bs,” the original poster wrote, citing “massive unexpected spikes” in labor market test failures, leading...

Superman may stand for truth, justice and the American way, but Margaret Cho has a different way to describe Dean Cain, the actor who once played him: "dumbass." "Why would you join ICE and encourage people to join ICE when your ancestors were interned in World War II?" the San Francisco comic asked in a video shared with her 347,000 followers on Instagram on Aug. 8, addressing Cain directly. "You're Japanese. You're not even white." Cain, who is of Japanese descent on his father's side, is best known for his portrayal of the Man of Steel in the 1990s series...

A TV anchor at a local CBS station in Boston claims she was demoted from her job because she is a white woman — and alleged she fell victim to a “DEI agenda” that was raging out of control across the Tiffany Network, according to a bombshell lawsuit. Katherine Merrill Dunham, a longtime anchor for CBS affiliate WBZ-TV known on air as Kate Merrill, filed suit against the station’s corporate parents CBS and Paramount Global this month alleging that she was run out of the newsroom to satisfy corporate diversity quotas. The 51-year-old Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, who is married to...

A day care worker in Georgia was arrested for child abuse, authorities said, as the father of a toddler under her care shared heartbreaking pictures of the boy with a black eye and swollen face. Yvette Thurston, 54, faces three counts of first-degree child abuse and one of first-degree aggravated battery, WDRW reports. She was taken into custody Monday following a report of alleged abuse at Little Blessings Child Care in Bainbridge, close to the Florida border. Cory Weeks, a US Marine and dad, took to Facebook to share pictures of the frightening injuries suffered by his 1-year-old son, Clay,...

BREAKING: Former AG Bill Barr testified under oath today that President Trump is in NO WAY implicated in the Epstein files, and if he was, Biden would’ve leaked it That narrative is now out the window, as Barr would ABSOLUTELY take down Trump if he could. “[Barr] said that he had never seen anything that would implicate President Trump in any of this, and that if there had been anything pertaining to President Trump with respect to the Epstein list, that he felt like the Biden administration would probably have leaked it out,” House Oversight Chairman @JamesComer said

President Trump reportedly stopped his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders to call Vladimir Putin. German newspaper Gild reported that Trump paused the meeting, and it would resume when he finished speaking with Putin. According to Axios, two sources familiar with the call also confirmed that the President took a break from his meeting to make the call. The President is currently meeting with Zelensky, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, and British...

Former President Bill Clinton has expressed remorse over his role in negotiating a 1994 deal that resulted in Ukraine giving up its nuclear arsenal, suggesting that Russia never would have invaded its smaller neighbor if it still had nukes. “I feel a personal stake because I got them [Ukraine] to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons,” Clinton told Irish broadcaster RTE in an interview that aired Tuesday. The 42nd president was referencing a landmark post-Cold War deal in which then-Ukrainian President...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to...

Markets had been nearly certain the Fed would cut rates in September, but fresh producer price data are weakening those odds ahead of Chair Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech. While investors still see an 85% chance of a cut, Bank of America now expects rates to hold, warning tariffs and sticky inflation could keep policy tighter for longer. Analysts will be eyeing the back end of this week for the market-moving news. Analysts have long priced in a number of cuts to the base rate in 2025. With just a handful of meetings left to go this year, September has...

Pam Bondi and Kash Patel tapped Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to serve as Co-Deputy Director of the FBI. Fox News reported: Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are bringing on Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as an additional deputy director of the bureau, Fox News Digital has learned. Bailey will serve as a co-deputy director, alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Fox News Digital has learned. “I am thrilled to welcome Andrew Bailey as Co-Deputy Director of the FBI,” Bondi told Fox News Digital. “He has served as a distinguished state attorney general and is a decorated...

Bill Maher has lashed out at Democrats for declining to come on his show. “People ask me all the time, ‘Why haven’t you ever had Hillary or Bill Clinton on? Why didn’t you have Kamala on during the last campaign?’” Maher said on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday. “You think we don’t ask?” Noting that it took him “eight years and a petition to get Obama on,” Maher lamented that he could not even attract Democratic politicians for whom he has voted. “We ask these people every week. They say, ‘No,’” he added. “And these are people, all people...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger developed a reputation for being sexist and creepy while attending a criminal justice program in the months before he killed four University of Idaho students in 2022, fellow grad students told investigators. His behavior was so problematic that one Washington State University faculty member told co-workers that if he ever became a professor, he would likely stalk or sexually abuse his future students, according to the documents. She urged her co-workers to cut Kohberger’s funding to remove him from the program.“He is smart enough that in four years we will have to give him...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) will suspend two boys who attend Stone Bridge High School because of their interactions with a female student who identifies as male, and chooses to use the boys' locker room at school. Earlier this year, 7News Reporter Nick Minock was the first to report that LCPS launched a Title IX investigation into the students after they were recorded on video asking why there was a girl in the boys locker room. 7News was also the first to report that the female student who identifies as male was the one who...

The comment comes during a meeting at the White House among Trump and several European leaders, including Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated his view that a peace agreement is attainable between Russia and Ukraine, which would resolve the last war he has to handle as president.Trump claimed that the Russia-Ukraine war is the most difficult for him to solve but that he previously viewed it as the easiest. The comment came during a meeting at the White House between Trump and several European leaders, including Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. "This is a decision that can...

Liberal judges on a federal appeals court just sided with unelected Washington bureaucrats and gutted one of Congress’s most powerful tools to rein in the runaway Administrative State, the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The CRA is clear, when Congress repeals a regulation—and the President signs that repeal—federal agencies are barred from bringing back the same or “substantially similar” rules. That safeguard is critical to protect American workers, families, and businesses from suffocating regulation. But according to Senator Eric Schmitt, that safeguard has now been shredded. “Led by liberal judges, a federal court just undermined one of Congress’s most powerful tools...

Did you see Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson’s heated interview that came out a week ago? If you didn’t, it was something else. In fairness to Cruz, I do believe Carlson was poking and prodding in ways that were a bit annoying, and I don’t fault Cruz for being irritated with Carlson at times. In addition, until Cruz embarrassed himself with two-bit Dispensationalist heresy, I don’t think he was being overly unreasonable, and I agreed with his sentiments in some cases. Carlson and Cruz spoke largely about the Iran-Israel situation, which, as it stands, is in a state of flux....

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Mountain Home Air Force Base, IdahoMountain Home Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation in the western United States. Located in southwestern Idaho in Elmore County, the base is twelve miles southwest of Mountain Home, which is forty miles southeast of Boise via Interstate 84. The base is also used by the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), which has a detachment of F-15SG fighters on long term assignment to the base and a squadron composing of RSAF and USAF personnel. The host unit at Mountain Home since 1972 has...

The insects are not only a nuisance, but they also pose a major threat of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and West Nile virus.LAS VEGAS — If at one time it was thought mosquitoes couldn’t survive in desert climates, this city is a case study in how wrong that is.Mosquitoes typically prefer more tropical, humid conditions, but these biting machines have exploded in number throughout the Las Vegas Valley in recent years because of a host of changes. A mix of urban development, climate change, insecticide resistance and genetic adaptations are creating a more hospitable environment for the insects...

The State Department has revoked more than 6,000 international student visas because of violations of US law and overstays, the department told the BBC. The agency said the "vast majority" of the violations were assault, driving under the influence (DUI), burglary and "support for terrorism". The move comes as the Trump administration continues its crackdown on immigration and international students.While the State Department did not specify what they meant by "support for terrorism", the Trump administration has targeted some students who have protested in support of Palestine, arguing they had expressed antisemitic behaviour. Of the 6,000 student visas that were...

"I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden" is a song written in 1967 by singer-songwriter Joe South. It has since been recorded by artists of various styles and musical genres. [I Never Promised You A] Rose Garden" (Martina McBride, 2005)