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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis bans H-1B visas at state universities, ordering institutions to hire Americans instead of foreign workers, citing visa abuse and prioritising local graduates for taxpayer-funded jobs. In a bombshell directive shaking up higher education, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced that state universities will no longer be allowed to hire foreign workers on H-1B visas, ordering institutions to prioritise American citizens and Florida residents for all university positions. “Universities across the country are importing foreign workers on H-1B visas instead of hiring Americans who are qualified and available to do the job,” DeSantis declared. “We will...

A 48-year-old Central Florida woman was arrested for allegedly verbally assaulting several people including a student on a school bus. On Monday, Latanya Rowe entered the bus as it was stopped to pick up students for Davenport High School, according to a press release from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Officials said Rowe cursed at a student regarding an incident that occurred on Oct. 24 among the student and the woman’s son and daughter. Rowe also cursed out the bus driver for not “handling the situation,” according to the report. She refused to leave the bus for nearly an hour,...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Ex-CNN host Don Lemon, who purports himself to be an outspoken ally for the LGBTQ community, said that conservative commentator Megyn Kelly "looks trans." In his new podcast "Clip Farmers," Lemon and his co-hosts were discussing the appearance of "MAGA women." One of Lemon's co-hosts asked Lemon if he thought Kelly was "chopped," which is slang for ugly.

A New Hampshire man has lost his right to vote after repeatedly vandalizing and stealing Trump campaign signs from his neighbor’s property, another glaring example of left-wing intolerance toward free speech and political expression. According to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Nick Moorhead, 55, of Northfield, pleaded guilty in Franklin District Court to “unlawfully removing political signs.” Moorhead admitted to targeting a local resident’s Trump sign multiple times, an act that clearly wasn’t a one-off impulse but a pattern of politically motivated harassment, Boston 25 News. Court documents reveal that Moorhead was caught on camera on August 27 and...

China's state-owned COFCO bought three U.S. soybean cargoes this week, two trade sources said, the country's first purchases from this year's U.S. harvest ahead of this week's summit of leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. COFCO purchased about 180,000 metric tons of soybeans for December and January shipment through Pacific Northwest port terminals, the sources said. COFCO did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Benchmark Chicago soybean futures prices jumped this week to their highest in 15 months, rebounding from recent five-year lows on hopes for a U.S.-China trade deal.

Former first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday said women need to stand up against those who might seek to silence them. In an interview with People magazine, Obama reflected on her life and explained how she embraced entering her 60s. She talked about how her father raised her to be proud of her height. “I’m still working on, every day, waking up, looking in the mirror and telling myself that I am smart and beautiful, and kind and worthy,” Obama said. “I don’t think that work ever stops for women, particularly women of color, because sometimes you don’t always hear...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country’s military successfully tested a massive nuclear-torpedo dubbed the Poseidon capable of leveling coastal cities with 1,600-foot high radioactive tsunamis. The despot, while enjoying tea with wounded Russian soldiers at a hospital in Moscow Wednesday, said the underwater bomb was launched from a submarine the day before and was a “huge success.” “For the first time, we managed not only to launch it with a launch engine from a carrier submarine, but also to launch the nuclear power unit on which this device passed a certain amount of time,” Putin said. “There is...

Authorities have revealed they have tracked down a trio of suspects wanted in connection with a harrowing Halloween prank that terrorized a Virginia family earlier this month. Following more than 100 hours of investigation, Alexandria Police Department Chief Tarrick McGuire said the three people caught on camera wearing Halloween masks and attempting to break into a family’s home were actually cousins of the residents, according to FOX 5. McGuire revealed that investigators received numerous tips which led to a woman who confessed that she, her two sons and a nephew staged the incident, FOX 5 reported. However, since the family...

U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet next week with the leaders of five Central Asian countries, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a source familiar with the meeting preparations. White House representatives did not respond to requests for comment regarding the planned November 6 meeting, which, according to the source, will include the heads of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. Following visits with Uzbek officials in Central Asia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau confirmed that President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan will meet with Trump in Washington next week. He noted that the visit “is intended to...

A new film about singer Bruce Springsteen called ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’ is not delivering the box office haul producers expected, at home or abroad. This is not entirely surprising. Like many celebrities, Springsteen has tainted his brand by turning himself into a toxic political figure. “Springsteen” launched below projections at the international box office with $7 million, bringing its global tally to a soft $16.1 million. The biopic cost $55 million, and since theater owners keep roughly half of the ticket sales, the film needs to keep rocking at the box office to justify its price tag. And...

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Several illegal Indian migrant workers who were recently deported from the US have recounted their ordeal to BBC Punjabi, describing humiliation, debt and shattered dreams. At least 54 men, who had entered the US through the "donkey route" - often used by traffickers to facilitate illegal crossings - landed in the country's capital Delhi on Sunday. -snip- Of the 54 deportees who returned on Sunday, BBC Punjabi met 15 men in Haryana's Kaithal district who say they are now uncertain about their future. Harjinder Singh, a farmer who had spent 3.5m rupees (£29,653; $39,624) to go to the US four...

The Landlady's Tale By SWORDMAKER copyright 2000Preface The following story was told to me by the woman who rented my parents their first home in California when they moved to Sacramento in 1939. A devout Catholic (so much so that although she had been divorced by her husband, she did not consider the divorce valid and did not remarry until her husband died many years later) the landlady swore on her Bible, in front of my sister and me after she told us the story, that it was absolutely true. She was quite serious about it.In the 1970s, I personally...

More than 2 1/2 years ago, I wrote about the prostitution problem in San Francisco. Neighbors of one particular street, Capp St., were complaining about a sudden uptick of business on their block that was making it difficult to sleep at night.

A 21-year-old Indian truck driver, Jashanpreet Singh, accused of causing an eight-vehicle crash in Southern California that killed three people, appeared in a US court without his turban—sparking outrage in India. Many, including Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal, demanded that his turban be returned. A petition has also been launched, describing Singh's bareheaded court appearance as "a violation of Sikh faith" and urging authorities to "restore his religious rights and ensure a fair trial." -snip- Former Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal, in a post on X, said he met the family of the accused,...

As 2025 enters its final months, battles over the legalization of assisted suicide continue to advance toward uncertain outcomes. The battlefields include the British House of Lords, New York State, and the Australian State of Victoria. Meanwhile, the clock continues to tick on the expansion of “access” to assisted suicide in Canada, where the effective date has been moved to March 17, 2027 for “medical aid in dying” (MAID) to become available for people whose “sole underlying condition is a mental illness.” Altogether, the pending proposals and arguments on their behalf illustrate what Wesley Smith calls the “slippery slope” of...

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Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A message in a bottle found during a beach clean-up in Australia turned out to contain letters from two World War I soldiers who launched their bottle 109 years earlier. Debra Brown said she and her family were cleaning up along the shoreline in Wharton Beach when her daughter found a bottle containing letters from Malcolm Alexander Neville and William Kirk Harley, soldiers serving in World War I in 1916. Neville's letter showed he came from Wilkawatt, South Australia, and Brown was able to use Facebook to contact Herbie Neville, the soldier's great nephew. The elder...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not go to a regional leaders summit in Malaysia this week to avoid meeting President Donald Trump and having possible conversations about Pakistan, people familiar with the matter said, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Modi was at first supposed to go to the meeting in person, but he changed his plans at the last minute and decided to attend virtually, according to Business Recorder. Indian officials were concerned that Trump would again bring up his claim that he mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan after a four-day conflict in May, the sources said, according to...

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio on Tuesday warned that a bubble could be forming around megacap technology in the U.S. amid the artificial intelligence boom, but said that it may not end until the Federal Reserve reverses its current easy policies.“There’s a lot of bubble stuff going on,” Dalio told CNBC’s Sara Eisen in an exclusive interview from the Future Investment Institute in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “But bubbles don’t pop, really, until they are popped by tightness of monetary policy and so on.”Added Dalio, “We’re going to be more likely to ease rates than to tighten rates.”