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The Trump administration is adding $100,000 to the existing fee for H-1B visa applications, taking aim at a program that is used to attract highly skilled workers to the U.S. President Trump signed a proclamation late Friday adding the new visa application fee and barring H-1B workers from entering the U.S. unless they had made the $100,000 payment. “We’re going to be able to keep people in our country that are going to be very productive people, and in many cases these companies are going to pay a lot of money for that, and they’re very happy about it,” Mr. Trump said.White…

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, right, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speak with members of the press on Capitol Hill on Sept. 11. The two New York Democrats are asking President Trump for a meeting before an impending government shutdown. Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Top congressional Democrats are asking President Trump for a meeting before an impending government shutdown. “We write to demand a meeting in connection with your decision to shut down the federal government,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader…

President Trump said Friday the U.S. military has carried out another “lethal kinetic strike” on a boat accused of carrying drugs — at least the third strike in recent weeks.The president announced the move in a Truth Social post that included a video of a strike on a vessel. He said three “male narcoterrorists” were killed, and no Americans were harmed. Mr. Trump didn’t specify where the boat was located, but he said it was in international waters in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility, which includes the Caribbean Sea and South America.”Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit…

A conservative lawyer who has said she was falsely accused of being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been named to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia, according to a copy of an email she sent to staff obtained by CBS News. The Virginia office was thrown into turmoil when its acting U.S. attorney was abruptly left on Friday.Mary “Maggie” Cleary said in an email to staff on Saturday that she had been named the new acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, according to her email.She replaces Erik Siebert,…

President Donald Trump listens to a reporter’s question in the Oval Office of the White House, on Friday. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP President Trump’s latest executive order on immigration will sharply curtail a visa program used by hundreds of thousands of people currently living in the United States. It also threatens some operations of the big tech companies that have tried hard to curry favor with Trump this year, raising the question of how much return those companies are getting on that ongoing investment. The president on Friday signed an executive order adding a $100,000 fee…

Media within the Pentagon covering the U.S. military will face new restrictions on the information they are allowed to report or face loss of access to the Pentagon, according to a memo officials distributed to reporters on Friday. Members of the press will be required to sign a document acknowledging they should not disclose either classified or controlled unclassified information that is not formally authorized for publication, says the memo from the Department of Defense, which the Trump administration has renamed the Department of War. It says Pentagon reporters may lose their press credentials for “unauthorized access, attempted unauthorized access, or…

Politics / StudentNation / September 15, 2025 The university has largely complied to the government’s efforts to reshape higher education as critics on campus question the role of neutrality altogether. Ad Policy Economics building on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.(cmh2315fl / Flickr) 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 Student Nation, 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…

Sonny Curtis, a vintage rock ‘n’ roller who wrote the raw classic “I Fought the Law” and posed the enduring question “Who can turn the world on with her smile?” as the writer-crooner of the theme song to “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died at 88.Curtis, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Crickets in 2012, died Friday, his wife of more than a half-century, Louise Curtis, confirmed to The Associated Press. A statement from his family on his Facebook page Saturday said that he had become suddenly ill.”He made a mark…

A memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Arizona on Sunday is set to feature President Trump, Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, and more than half a dozen top Trump administration figures addressing what could be an NFL-size crowd at State Farm Stadium.Kirk, the 31-year-old co-founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed as he spoke at an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. A 22-year-old suspect has been charged with aggravated murder. Kirk’s assassination has rocked the conservative world. A prolific and sometimes controversial speaker, Kirk was known for his college campus events and debates, his role…

Erik Siebert, then interim U.S. Attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, speaks at a news conference on March 27 at an FBI field office in Manassas, Va. Siebert resigned Friday after President Trump said he wanted him “out” after the U.S. attorney’s mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James failed to result in criminal charges. Rod Lamkey/AP hide caption toggle caption Rod Lamkey/AP WASHINGTON — A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal charges resigned Friday under pressure from the Trump administration.…