A federal judge on Friday pressed a lawyer for the government to explain how President Donald Trump had the authority to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers and whether that power had any limits.
Bret Michaels, frontman of Poison, the rock group best known for its working-class anthem “Nothin’ But a Good Time,” has withdrawn from a concert series commemorating the United States’ 250th anniversary, the latest in a wave of cancellations.
The group said that removing immigration officials from Newark airport would cause “immediate and lasting harm”.
A team of specialist divers said they pulled one man from a flooded cave in central Laos on Friday, as four more people remained trapped with two others still missing.
Christian Castro faces four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime for assaulting a Venezuelan man in a non-fatal shooting in Minneapolis this year.
A judge on Friday ordered the removal of President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ruling that the iconic Washington venue cannot be renamed without an act of Congress.
Louisiana Republicans on Friday approved a new congressional map that dismantles a Democratic-held, majority-Black seat, boosting their party’s odds of retaining the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections.
Iran and the United States are in discussions to extend their ceasefire so as to start negotiations on issues including Tehran’s nuclear program, where Washington insists Iran must not be able to make a nuclear weapon.
The U.S. Postal Service would require states to provide a list of voters who received mailed ballots as part of new rules proposed on Friday, one day after a federal judge declined to immediately block President Donald Trump’s related executive order.
The Israeli advance came as the U.S. military hosted Israeli and Lebanese defence representatives in Washington to pursue a U.S.-brokered plan to forge peace between the two countries.