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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has filed a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, saying it overrides existing provisions in current laws that apply to the H-1B programme. “The Chamber’s litigation argues that the new fee is unlawful because it overrides provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act that govern the H-1B program, including the requirement that fees be based on the costs incurred by the government in processing visas,” the Chamber said in a statement on October 16. The Trump administration announced a $100,000 fee on fresh H-1B visa applications. This was...

@seanmdav John Bolton is in deep trouble. According to the federal indictment against him, he not only stored thousands of pages of classified documents at his home long after his government employment ended, he regularly shared classified info with multiple uncleared individuals via unsecured Google and AOL email.

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It seems like former Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), is very sensitive when it comes to people questioning her about what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Pelosi proved that in spades when a reporter for LindellTV, Alison Steinberg, asked her if she was concerned that the new January 6th committee would "find her liable for that day." "Why did you refuse the National Guard on Jan. 6?" Steinberg asked. That's when Pelosi went berserk. Pelosi snapped at Steinberg, stabbing her finger at her and ranting, "Shut up! I did NOT refuse the National...

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When things are not going their way, the Abortion Establishment and its legion of media enablers insist they are “winning the culture war,” by which they mean the public is more accepting of abortion. If ever there was an example of “The wish is father to the thought”—aka, they want to believe it because they wish it to be true—this is it. But just to be on the safe side, they continue to try (so to speak) to rehabilitate abortion. How? By reframing the deaths of unborn children as either a positive good or something beyond evaluation (for a host...

A man riding on a bus in Dublin is reported to have repeatedly punched a pregnant fellow passenger in the face and stomach while screaming at her to have an abortion. Key Takeaways: * A pregnant woman was reportedly riding a bus when a man approached her, screaming, telling her to have an abortion. * He then began punching her in the face and stomach. * The man was arrested but has been granted bail. * Abortion is legal in Ireland, and the number of abortions committed have been skyrocketing. The Details: The Irish Independent reported that 45-year-old Thomas Nolan...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the Trump administration Thursday over hefty new fees in the H-1B visa program, joining the legal campaign against the administration’s changes to a program used by some of the biggest tech companies in the U.S. -snip- The chamber’s lawsuit is seeking to block the new H-1B program restrictions, which were rolled out in a presidential proclamation that the chamber says “is not only misguided policy; it is plainly unlawful.” “The President has significant authority over the entry of noncitizens into the United States, but that authority is bounded by statute and cannot directly contradict...

e U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday filed a lawsuit over the Trump administration imposing a $100,000 fee to the H-1B worker visas. -snip- In a release regarding the lawsuit on Thursday, the Chamber called the new fee unlawful since it "overrides provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act that govern the H-1B program, including the requirement that fees be based on the costs incurred by the government in processing visas." "The new $100,000 visa fee will make it cost-prohibitive for U.S. employers, especially start-ups and small and midsize businesses, to utilize the H-1B program, which was created by Congress...

Twenty-one-year-old Steven A. Wowwk arrived as an infantryman in the Army’s First Cavalry Division in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam in early January 1969 to fight in an escalating and increasingly unwinnable war. By June, Wowwk had been wounded twice—the second time seriously—and was sent back to the United States for treatment at Boston’s Chelsea Naval Hospital. It was after returning to the U.S. and while en route to the hospital that Wowwk first encountered hostility as a veteran.

Companies could face probes into their compliance with the H-1B visa program as part of the Trump Administration’s effort to clamp down on the program and force companies to hire more Americans. The Department of Labor announced on Friday that it was launching Project Firewall, an “enforcement initiative” that will investigate employers for potential abuse of the H-1B visa process. The initiative may be the first time the federal government has sought to broadly enforce H-1B legal standards intended to protect both the H-1B employee and American workers, such as paying wages on par with other workers of similar qualifications...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American colleague Donald Trump discussed in a telephone conversation on Thursday the possible supply of US Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said. During the call, Putin told Trump that Tomahawk missiles would not change the situation on the battlefield, but would harm relations between Moscow and Washington and minimize the chances of a positive settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, according to Ushakov. Furthermore, the official revealed that Trump pledged to take into consideration all of Putin's concerns during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday at the White...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was caught on camera taking a nasty tumble in the hallway of a Senate office building Thursday. The 83-year-old, who was en route to the Capitol for votes, grabbed at an aide’s arm seconds before he went down. McConnell, who announced in February that he would not seek another term next year, was quickly helped to his feet by the aide and a guard.

Normally we would pay little attention to a statewide Attorney General campaign race debate. HOWEVER, this is Jay Jones in Virginia we are talking about so there is a possibility of YUUUUUGE fireworks during this debate tonight which could also affect the governor's race. In case you have been living in a cave for the past couple of weeks, Jones was favored to win this race over incumbent Jason Miyares UNTIL it was revealed on Oct. 3, that Jones in 2022 had sent text messages threatening to kill a former Virginia House Speaker with two bullets to the head.According to...

JUST IN: Spotify bans Nick Fuentes podcast after it hits #1 on the charts just days after being allowed on the platform.

Actor Bradley Whitford joined the co-hosts of "The View" on Wednesday and said his father, who fought in World War II while fascism was on the rise, was "Antifa," agreeing with co-host Joy Behar. "I am living in a world where we have internment camps, where, in my community, people are jumping out of vans, and people going through a legal asylum process are being taken away without charges. And the thing that’s very upsetting to me right now, and we’re giving these internment camps funny names. Like, there's some fun to be had in the inhumanity of it all....

Troubled homeless man interrupts Curtis Sliwa's speech for NYC mayor. Cutis Sliwa, founder of the GUARDIAN ANGELS of NYC, is running for mayor. A troubled homeless man interrupts his speech, but instead of crying about it, Sliwa waives off police and handles the situation like a rational human being!

A German historian has utilized the omnipresent tech to glean the identity of a notorious Nazi executioner in a World War II photograph — over 80 years after it was taken. -snip In the chilling photo, taken in today’s Ukraine, a bespectacled Nazi soldier aims a pistol at a man who’s kneeling before a mass grave as other SS troops look on. Commonly known as the “Last Jew of Vinnitsa,” the pic remained a mystery for decades until Matthäus cracked the caper with the aid of AI, historical records and personal accounts. According to the study published in the Journal...