Trump admin says visa holders seeking permanent residency must return to home countries
(CN) — In an announcement Friday that could affect more than 1 million people, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said that people on temporary visas who want to obtain green cards must return to their home countries to apply. “Nonimmigrants, like students,...
Mahmoud Khalil facing rearrest, deportation after Third Circuit denies rehearing
PHILADELPHIA (CN) — A federal appeals court on Friday declined to review Mahmoud Khalil’s case, leaving the former Columbia University student protester few options left to prevent rearrest and deportation sought by the Trump administration. While Khalil, 31, has been...
Wall Street ignores inflation, consumer sentiment for now
MANHATTAN (CN) — Markets notched sizeable gains this week, even as gasoline prices, consumer sentiment and inflation concerns pose economic headwinds. The Dow Jones Industrial Average again topped the 50,000-point mark, gaining 959 points for the week to settle at...
Google urges DC Circuit to overturn search monopoly remedies
WASHINGTON (CN) — Tech giant Google opened the latest chapter in its ongoing legal battle against the Justice Department over its dominance in internet search on Friday, urging the D.C. Circuit to overturn a federal judge’s illegal monopoly ruling and related...
Tatís strikes out in fight against contract signed as a teen
SAN DIEGO (CN) — San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatís Jr. swung too late in the latest court action he’s taken against the Big League Advance Fund, according to a San Diego Superior Court judge. Tatís’ attorneys argued before Judge Judy Bae on Friday...Feds say California water board is forcing discriminatory salinity requirements on it
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The federal government argued Friday before a Ninth Circuit panel that seven years for resolution in a case about water salinity standards is too long. A lower court ruled in 2023 that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation couldn’t claim an amendment to...
Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence
WASHINGTON (CN) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday she would resign from her position next month, ending a yearlong term as the Trump administration’s spy chief and citing what she said were her husband’s health troubles. Gabbard, a...
Giant inflatable artworks have taken over The Hague
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — There is a giant stew pot in a small lake in the center of The Hague. Floating in the water in front of the prestigious Mauritshuis museum, home to the “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” the 7-meter (23-foot)-tall pan is part of...
Ukrainian protesters in Kyiv urge veto of a bill families fear could declare missing soldiers dead
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of Ukrainians marched through the capital on Friday, demanding that the government veto a bill that families of missing soldiers say could lead to their loved ones being prematurely declared dead. The protesters gathered to oppose Bill...