US politics

US politics

Last fall, President Donald Trump's executive order raising the fee for H-1B visas to $100,000 - like many of his immigration policies - led to near-immediate chaos. Thousands of workers who had flown overseas to renew their visas ended up stranded abroad. Details about who would be affected only emerged after the fact.

Cornyn is in the fight of his political life in the May 23 runoff election against Paxton, and it's guaranteed to be viciously brutal. The incumbent is widely viewed as a stronger candidate in the general election due to Paxton's series of scandals, lawsuits, and controversies, but the attorney general has gotten support from the MAGA wing of the GOP for his combative, far-right stances.

I didn't know that anything had officially changed walking in there. And then being told that I had to provide a passport that I've never had or a birth certificate that's usually tucked away somewhere safe just to cast my vote - which I've done before - it was frustrating.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth complained last week that reporting on troop deaths is intended to make the president look bad, and this week loudly demanded positive coverage from a patriotic press corps.

The President does know that there is a correlation between gas prices and oil. It's been very clear in everything the President has said, and he said this publicly, he thought this was going to be over by now. I don't know why he thought that, and I don't know why there wasn't some kind of a contingency for what we're seeing now.

We write with deep concern regarding the Department of Homeland Security's investigation into whether cybersecurity staff provided false information to the former Acting Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The lawmakers said the development raises questions about whether officials adhered to established intelligence security rules and whether career CISA staff were improperly targeted after administering the exams.

I don't say this often, but thank you to @MSNOWNews for playing our videos and showing it's having a positive effect on polling and messaging. The administration's social media accounts have been very busy, posting videos that combine real images of Iran war strikes with video games.

Maggot Hagerman, just another SLEAZEBAG writer for The Failing New York Times, insists on writing false stories about me, even though she fully knows and understands that the exact opposite of anything she says is usually the truth.

I just found the funny in it, of how you can take an 87-year-old Albany landmark and reduce it down to a drug-infested strip joint in El Cerrito. All the information is wrong.

The biggest question is: What kind of business partner does the government want to be? They need the AI companies. The government's a superpower but here it's trying to jam a lot of policy. This reflects tension between government dependence on private AI firms and its desire to impose regulatory requirements through procurement mechanisms rather than traditional legislative channels.

Close-to-final turnout numbers in Texas show the Democratic Senate primary had the highest number of people voting in it than for any other primary for statewide office in Texas' history. More than 2.3 million votes were cast in the primary in which state Rep. James Talarico defeated U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett.

Albany's leaders will hash out these and hundreds of other policies in the next three weeks, as they craft the state budget and decide how to spend $260 billion - and then some, if the legislature gets its way.

It's clear that this is a massive national push by Uber and also industries associated with app-hire vehicles, and that's where by far the bulk of the money is coming from. The cascade of cash coincides with a near-daily onslaught of sponsored content in news outlets across the state, and video ads with professional actors giving testimonials boosting Hochul's efforts.

Despite a Supreme Court ruling that much of Trump's tariff agenda is illegal, the Trump administration refuses to provide relief for families. As American families continue to struggle with high costs, the President keeps choosing to institute new tariffs that will push prices even higher.

The bank had bought a lot of bonds, which got less valuable as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates after keeping them low during the thick of COVID-19. The bank's depositors were predominantly tech companies, who were worried that their money wouldn't be there if they needed to withdraw. So a lot of them rushed to do just that, and there wasn't enough money, and that was the end of Silicon Valley Bank as we once knew it.