Friday, 9 October 2026 · Updated 11:00 AM
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The Trump administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using H-1B visas, accusing the company of fraud. Vice President JD Vance said Thursday, “If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off,…
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.” Hegseth, speaking to the conservative TV outlet Real America’s Voice News on Wednesday, said the execution of Hasan will…
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and wife Cilia Flores, already charged with participating in a conspiracy to send cocaine into the U.S., now also face allegations of human rights abuses during his time as president of the oil-rich South American nation.
Saudi aviation authorities say three Saudi citizens including a pilot were killed and several other people wounded in two attacks Thursday that were claimed by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The attacks targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and a Saudia…
↑ 13h ago · Trump: No US strikes on Iran before election
By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has no plans to strike Iran before the midterm election. “We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd,” Trump declared on Truth Social, adding …
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A lawyer for CNN, MS NOW and Politico urged a federal judge Thursday to extend their protection against being barred from the White House by President Donald Trump, while the Justice Department defended the bans as fair and justified.
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