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Washington — The State Department is set to roll out a pilot program that may require foreign nationals from certain countries seeking business or tourism visas to post a bond of up to $15,000, according to a public notice set to be published Tuesday.The notice lays out the details of a 12-month “visa bond pilot program” that would allow consular officers to require visa bonds. Under the program, the bonds may be required for travelers from countries that the State Department says have high rates of visa overstays, or where screening and vetting information is considered deficient, according to the…

The race for control of the House of Representatives is tight and hotly contested. Nathan Howard/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nathan Howard/Getty Images President Trump insists that tariffs are driving an economic boom, but the data tells a more complicated story. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., denounced Trump’s tariffs and firing of a senior Labor official, saying Congress must “get its power back.” “He needs to get this under control, and if he won’t do it himself, Congress’s role — and the Democrats are united on this — is to be a check on him,” Klobuchar told Morning Edition. When…

White House holds firm on tariff rates White House holds firm on tariff rates ahead on Aug. 7 deadline 03:59 The European Union announced Monday it would delay retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods for six months, giving both countries time to implement the trade agreement they reached late last month.The retaliatory tariffs, which were set to go into effect on Thursday, will be delayed until at least March.On July 27, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission and President Trump agreed to a deal that included a 15% tariff on most goods from the EU. Though the…

Politics / StudentNation / August 4, 2025 “The message is loud and clear: You’re good enough to pick vegetables or clean hotel rooms, but not to go to college.” Ad Policy The tower at the University of Texas in April 2024 in Austin.(Sergio Flores / Getty) This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism. For more StudentNation, check out our archive or learn more about the program here. StudentNation is made possible through generous funding from The Puffin Foundation. If you’re a student and you have an…

Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a civilian plane Sunday after it entered restricted airspace over President Trump’s property in Bedminster, New Jersey, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said, one of seven aircraft to violate the airspace over the weekend.Three civilian planes flew in the restricted airspace Saturday, and there were four more violations on Sunday, including one that was intercepted by fighter aircraft, NORAD said in a statement.Flares were deployed to get the pilot’s attention, NORAD said on social media, and the plane was safely escorted out of the area by NORAD aircraft.”The flares – which may have…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says “Alligator Alcatraz” will serve as a model for state-run migrant detention centers, and she told CBS News in an interview that she hopes to launch a handful of similar detention centers in multiple airports and jails across the country, in the coming months. Potential sites are already under consideration in Arizona, Nebraska and Louisiana. “The locations we’re looking at are right by airport runways that will help give us an efficiency that we’ve never had before,” Noem said, adding that she’s appealed directly to governors and state leaders nationwide to gauge their interest in contributing…

Boeing workers who build fighter jets are on strike, their union says.The walkout began at midnight Central Daylight Time.About 3,200 workers at Boeing facilities in St. Louis; St. Charles, Missouri; and Mascoutah, Illinois, voted to reject a modified four-year labor agreement with Boeing, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said Sunday. In a post on X, the union said, “3,200 highly-skilled IAM Union members at Boeing went on strike at midnight because enough is enough. This is about respect and dignity, not empty promises.”IAM District 837 members “deserve a contract that reflects their skill, dedication, and the critical…

When President Trump signed a law adding work requirements for some Medicaid recipients, he may have undercut lawmakers in at least 14 states who were designing their own plans, according to health industry observers.Georgia is the only state with a work requirement in place for Medicaid, but several states have been pursuing such a policy for years, only to be blocked by courts or, most recently, the Biden administration. Some seek state-specific touches to the new rules. Others aim to implement work requirements before the federal law takes effect at the end of 2026. These states’ moves and Mr. Trump’s massive…

The manhunt for a military veteran suspected of fatally shooting four people at a bar in Montana stretched into a fourth day Monday.Police are looking for Michael Paul Brown, 45, who is wanted for allegedly shooting the four inside The Owl Bar in the small town of Anaconda before fleeing in a white pickup, which he ditched at some point. But law enforcement now believes Brown ditched that vehicle and stole a different one that had camping gear, shoes and clothes in it.Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told reporters on Sunday that Brown was believed to still be armed and…

In a whirlwind of negotiations over three days, Democrats asked for multiple billions in government funds to be released in exchange for a vote on a batch of nominees President Trump wanted confirmed before lawmakers left for their August break, sources told CBS News.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was negotiating with GOP leadership for $5 billion for the National Institutes of Health, $1 billion for the Global Fund, $300 million for the World Food Program, $50 million to fight HIV in developing countries, about $140 million for the United Nations Children’s Fund, and other money funding that had been previously…