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White House says $100K H-1B visa fee won’t apply to existing holders as Trump move stirs anxiety

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, SEUNG MIN KIM and AAMER MADHANI
Sep 20, 2025 9:19 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s latest plan to overhaul the American immigration system has left some immigrant workers confused, forcing the White House on Satu...
Democratic leaders in Congress demand a meeting with Trump as government shutdown looms

By LISA MASCARO
Sep 20, 2025 9:16 pm - As a possible federal shutdown looms, the Democratic leaders of Congress are demanding a meeting with President Donald Trump to negotiate an end to what they call “your decision” to shutter government offices if no action is taken by the end-of-the month deadline.
Marchers head to Naval Station Great Lakes seeking end to mass deportations

By Marni Pyke
Sep 20, 2025 7:36 pm - Interfaith leaders from the suburbs and Chicago marched to Naval Station Great Lakes Saturday to protest ICE arrests.
California bans most law enforcement officers from wearing masks during operations

By TRÂN NGUYỄN and MARTHA BELLISLE
Sep 20, 2025 5:52 pm - California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill that was signed Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and swiftly denounced by Trump administration officials.
Members of Congress take steps to tighten their own security after Kirk’s killing

By MATT BROWN and STEPHEN GROVES
Sep 20, 2025 5:40 pm - As House Speaker Mike Johnson gathered lawmakers this week to mourn Charlie Kirk, he summed up the grief felt by many on Capitol Hill — and the pervasive fear.
Trump’s media enforcer is relishing his Jimmy Kimmel moment

By Scott Nover, Will Oremus and Jeremy Barr
Sep 20, 2025 3:16 pm - Naming Brendan Carr to chair the Federal Communications Commission in November, President-elect Donald Trump heralded him as a “warrior for free speech.”Now, after spearheading the Trump administration’s successful push for ABC to take comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air, Carr has become a gleeful avatar of what critics say is a sweeping government crackdown on speech — and his backers see as an overdue reckoning with an instinctively liberal broadcast industry.
Emerging TikTok deal with China ensures US control of board and crucial algorithm, White House says

By AAMER MADHANI
Sep 20, 2025 3:04 pm - An emerging TikTok deal with China will ensure that U.S. companies control the algorithm that powers the app's video feed and Americans will hold a majority of seats on a board overseeing U.S. operations, the White House said Saturday.
Schools, advocates work to reassure parents, students amid growing fears over ICE raids

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Sep 20, 2025 2:00 pm - Students’ fears of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting parents and loved ones have suburban and state education officials concerned about the potential for disruption and a rise in truancy.
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material

By Scott Nover
Sep 19, 2025 8:44 pm - The Trump administration unveiled a new crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon, saying it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey.
US attorney under pressure to charge Letitia James in mortgage fraud case is resigning: AP sources

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER
Sep 19, 2025 8:01 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal char...

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