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A new proposal by Senator Jim Banks aims to restructure the H-1B visa system, drastically raising wage requirements and limiting alternatives companies use to hire foreign workers. -snip- The American Tech Workforce Act includes three main reforms. First, it increases the minimum required salary for H-1B visa holders from $60,000 to $150,000, which may disincentivize companies to look abroad for talent. The bill would also eliminate the OPT program, which allows foreign graduates to work in the U.S. for up to three years post-graduation. Thirdly, the bill replaces the current lottery system with a model awarding visas to the highest-bidding...

Past theories held that a long-debated stone, known as the "Newall boulder," had been moved by glacial ice long before humans ever arrived to construct the iconic monument.However, new evidence strengthens the case that Neolithic people transported the site's mysterious bluestones, rather than the massive glaciers that covered parts of Earth during the last Ice Age.Originally discovered during excavations in 1924 by Lt-Col William Hawley, the famous stone was later removed by his assistant, R.S. Newall. The new findings, published in a study in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, relied on petrographic, geochemical, and imaging analyses to identify the...

...Following President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, President Andrew Johnson rescinded Field Order 15 and returned to Confederate owners the 400,000 acres of land—“a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, South Carolina to the St. John’s River in Florida, including Georgia’s Sea Islands and the mainland 30 miles in from the coast.” Roy L. Brooks, a distinguished professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law, described Johnson as a segregationist “who wanted to basically return African Americans to a position of subordination.” Without land of their own to work, the 3.9 million members of...

Grammy Award-winning country music songwriter Brett James was flying on his private jet with his wife and her 28-year-old daughter, who had just celebrated her birthday, when the plane crashed and killed them, officials said Friday.

Explanation: A study in contrasts, this colorful cosmic skyscape features stars, dust, and glowing gas in the vicinity of NGC 6914. The interstellar complex of nebulae lies some 6,000 light-years away, toward the high-flying northern constellation Cygnus and the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Obscuring interstellar dust clouds appear in silhouette while reddish hydrogen emission nebulae, along with the dusty blue reflection nebulae, fill the cosmic canvas. Ultraviolet radiation from the massive, hot, young stars of the extensive Cygnus OB2 association ionize the region's atomic hydrogen gas, producing the characteristic red glow as protons and electrons recombine. Embedded Cygnus...

<p>Grammy-winning songwriter Brett James died Thursday in a plane crash in Franklin, North Carolina. He was 57.</p><p>The single-engine plane, registered under James’ legal name, Brett Cornelius, went down in a field around 3 p.m., roughly 270 miles southeast of Nashville, according to flight-tracking data from FlightAware and a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). All three people aboard were killed, CNN reported.</p>

A warning should have been heeded at the time of Trump’s assassination attempt in Butler: the era of outdoor political events is coming to an end. Like most, I did not fully grasp it at the time. I thought that the assassination attempt on Trump was a fluke. I thought of it as an attempt by some oddball, who by luck, was able to exploit a failing in Trump’s Secret Service detail. I still dismissed as marginal the impact of Democrats portraying their political adversaries as demonic for so many decades. Up until last week, I gave it no weight....

A recent Cato Institute study published last Thursday following the murder of Charlie Kirk claims that from 1975 through September 2025, "right-wing terrorists" accounted for 391 murders (11% of total) while "left-wing terrorists" killed 65 people (2% of total) in politically motivated attacks in the United States. In multiple comments in response to Kirk's killing, U.S. President Donald Trump blamed the "radical left," arguing their rhetoric was “directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today.” He further claimed right-wing violence stemmed from people who “don’t want to see crime.”

Four special operations soldiers were aboard an Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed Wednesday night in a rugged area of Washington state. This is “currently a search mission” involving the “most professional and skilled addressing the situation,” Army representative Ruth Castro said, according to the Associated Press. The Army has not released any comment about the conditions of the soldiers. The MH-60 Black Hawk, assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, was on what the Army called a routine training flight at the time of the crash, according to The New York Times. The helicopter crashed at about 9...

SHOW THIS TO PEOPLE WHO THINK CHARLIE KIRK IS RACIST. Charlie didn't even believe in race, he calls it a social construct. 0:31 VIDEO AT LINK...................

A 26-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly threatened a casino for displaying a memorial for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a marquee, Henderson police said. Thomas “TJ” Fedikovich was taken into custody Saturday on several charges after an alleged series of threats phoned in to employees(snip) The caller stated if Kirk’s memorial was not removed from the Sunset Station marquee then “we could destroy the sign and take it down for us,” according to the report. The casino later received a call from the same number with another threat, police said. “Can you tell your boss there to...

LOGANVILLE, Ga. — A 19-year-old has been arrested for vandalizing a sign at a Georgia business, according to police. On Monday, Loganville officers said they were made aware of an incident of property damage and vandalism to a sign at Tire Dock. The sign read, “In loving memory of Charlie Kirk.” Photos released by the Walton County Sheriff’s Office shows the words “RACIST SYBAU”, spray painted over the sign. A Walton County deputy was seen cleaning the sign. “Not everyone agrees with the beliefs of Charlie Kirk but everyone owes respect to those who are mourning his death. He...

Terror-Linked Pakistani Group Seizes Houston Streets for Prophet Muhammad Birthday Parade.... This is Texas................

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The Benton County Sheriff's Office says two arrests have been made in the vandalism of a Charlie Kirk memorial. The Benton County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday night in a press release that Kerri Melissa Rollo and Kaylee Heather Rollo were arrested in connection with vandalizing a memorial on the steps of the Benton County Courthouse honoring Charlie Kirk. They're being held in the Benton County jail. A bond hearing was scheduled for Friday morning. According to the press release, both women are charged with criminal mischief in the first degree. Kaylee Heather Rollo is facing an additional...

WASHINGTON — In a vote that divided Democrats, the House on Friday passed a resolution honoring slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk and rejecting the political violence of recent years. The vote was 310-58, with more than 90 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting yes on the nonbinding resolution. The 58 no votes all came from Democrats, and another 38 Democrats voted present. (snip) “As a Black woman, the verbal assault on so many Black women coming out of his mouth stunned me,” Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., told NBC News, citing Kirk's past comments questioning the intelligence of former first lady...

A 43-year-old man and two nine-year-old children have died after being ‘burned alive’ when they became trapped inside a Tesla. The car went up in flames on September 7 after it came off the road and crashed into a tree in western Germany, police said. The man, and the children, no further details, died at the scene. Another child inside the vehicle was able to get out alive and was taken to a nearby hospital. A local resident tried to rescue the others but was unable to open the door with the Tesla’s retractable handles, German media outlets report. Roman...

The totally evil far left “Destiny” finally demonetized by YouTube. This video has plenty of clips of this deranged monster at work. He really should face charges for insurrection and inciting murder.

A Starbucks cup from the Chicago location with “Loser :)” written on it after a customer ordered Charlie Kirk’s favorite drink, alongside a screenshot of a store manager. ==================================================================== A Starbucks in Chicago has been forced to temporarily shut down after staff allegedly mocked a senior citizen customer by scrawling “LOSER” across her order, all because she asked for Charlie Kirk’s favorite drink. On Tuesday, Jacqueline Garretson took to X to expose what happened to her mother-in-law at the Starbucks on Northwest Highway and Harlem Avenue. “This morning a family member went to Starbucks and ordered Charlie Kirk’s favorite drink...

Albania’s new AI minister, Diella, delivered her first speech to Parliament on Thursday. “I’m not here to replace people, but to help them,” the AI entity created by Microsoft stated in a video displayed before elected human officials. Prime Minister Edi Rama has even opened a social media platform for Diella where the public can allegedly engage with the AI Minister directly. “Hello, I am Diella, Thanks to my hard work as your assistant, I was elected Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in the new government. My mission now is to make the government’s work easier every day,” a...

Exerpt: " It just left me feeling like, so, kinda broken. I don't even know what part of me feels kinda broken...I don't know exactly why it feels like it affected me so much...There's something about it that's left me scared first of all...And that's kind of, I think that's what it was, it's just like, that's supposed to be something that's kind of safe, to be able to have a voice, to say something whether people may agree with it or not....I didn't know Charlie..I didn't know a lot of his stuff but I did admire that he was...