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US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say
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US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say
California Supreme Court hears arguments over sheriff's seizure of ballots
Legal wrangling over $12.5B Lakers sale shows how family trusts don’t guarantee a business stays in the family

US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say

The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges. Unless challenged or revised, the State Department is expected to announce in the coming weeks the revocation of so-called B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders have sought asylum or are now seeking asylum, according to State Department docum

California Supreme Court hears arguments over sheriff's seizure of ballots

Legal wrangling over $12.5B Lakers sale shows how family trusts don’t guarantee a business stays in the family

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Hyundai Motor's union reaches tentative wage deal with management, Yonhap reports

Hyundai Motor's South Korean union reached a tentative agreement with management on a 100,000 won ($72.31) monthly base salary increase, Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday. The deal comes after the union staged its first full strike in a decade on Friday after wage talks stalled, as it sought a higher retirement age and job protections against artificial intelligence and automation.According to the Yonhap report, the tentative agreement includes a base salary increase plus a performance bonus and welfare points.From next year until 2028, 500 new technical workers will be hired, the repor

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Rubio tells S.Korean counterpart their countries need to remain in close coordination

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted the need for the United States and South Korea to remain in close coordination on matters integral to their alliance in a call with his counterpart on Monday, the State Department said.Rubio and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun discussed a range of issues in the alliance, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott added in a statement. (Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones and Ismail Shakil; editing by Costas Pitas)

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49ers owner Jed York pleads no contest to two misdemeanor charges in Ohio

San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York was arrested over the weekend in Ohio and pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools. Court records show that York initially was charged with engaging in prostitution, but prosecutors amended that to disorderly conduct. York was charged with possessing criminal tools for using his phone to respond to an undercover online prostitution advertisement, according to prosecutors. York was arrested Sunday morning at a mobile home community in East Palestine, Ohio, near wher

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Jeanine Pirro’s office fails to convict accused MS-13 ringleaders twice

The Trump administration celebrated the arrival of an alleged MS-13 mastermind on American soil in March 2025.But it was Moises Rivera-Luna — a man whom the Justice Department says ordered murders in the US from inside a Salvadoran jail cell more than a decade ago — who fell to his knees, stunned and grateful, in a Washington, DC, courtroom this April.It was the second time in five months the Justice Department had tried him before a federal jury. And for the second time, his jury failed to reach a verdict.Portrayed as a brutal gang leader known as “Viejo Santos,” or “Old Saint,” R

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Enes Kanter Freedom ejected from Fever-Sky game after he was confronted by Sky's Cloud

Former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from Sunday night's Indiana-Chicago WNBA game after he was confronted by Sky guard Natasha Cloud late in the third quarter. Freedom was sitting along the baseline. He had on a black shirt that read “WOMAN noun. adult human female.” The Fever called for a timeout after Cloud scored inside with 1:22 left in the third. Cloud then did a chest bump with teammate Aicha Coulibaly before turning around and walking in Kanter's direction. Cloud, 34, started yelling and pointing at Kanter, 34, as she approach

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Sean Grayson, former Illinois deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, dies in prison, lawyer says

Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy whose fatal shooting of Sonya Massey inside her home became a flashpoint over police use of force, died Sunday while serving a 20-year prison sentence. Grayson’s attorney, Daniel Fultz, confirmed that his client died earlier Sunday but declined to provide any further details. Grayson, 32, was convicted of second-degree murder in October in the fatal shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who had reported a possible prowler outside her Springfield-area home. Body camera video of the July 2024 encounter sho

Kushner, Jeffries discuss ways White House and Democrats can collaborate

Brush fire in Nevada grows to over 10,500 acres

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The walls appeared to be closing in on Gianni Infantino. Not everyone wants him gone

In recent weeks, it might have felt inevitable that Gianni Infantino would be forced to resign as FIFA president.The walls were closing in on him, and the rising tide of criticism following his failed attempt to rush through his controversial FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal seemed overwhelming.And yet, despite calls for him to step down still echoing around the sport, Infantino is still holding on to power with the FIFA presidential election fast approaching in March.And while some don’t want to wait that long to have the chance of toppling Infantino, the current FIFA boss does have s

Human remains found in Tucson’s vast desert have fueled speculation about a link to Nancy Guthrie. Here’s what’s going on

As the chief medical examiner for a county that stores the most human remains in the nation, Greg Hess has for decades been accustomed to the many that arrive at his office every year after being found in the vast and rugged southern Arizona desert.People traveling through the remote Sonoran Desert die from its extreme heat, harsh conditions and rough terrain. Most of the people who are found dead there every year are assumed to be migrants, Hess says, because of the desert’s location on the southern border.But ever since Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home in Tucson nearly seven months

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Trump's 'economic D-Day' threats become warnings for countries to sever financial ties with Iran

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Trump is trying to tighten the screws on an Iran numb to economic pain

Iran, already drained by years of sanctions and a brutal military onslaught from the United States and Israel, now faces another test as President Donald Trump moves to further tighten the economic screws on the Islamic Republic.The US Treasury Department on Monday threatened sweeping new sanctions on countries that refuse to cut economic ties with Iran as part of what it has cast as an “economic D-Day” for the country — though it stopped short of immediately imposing the most severe penalties.In a bid to ramp up pressure on Tehran, the Trump administration said it had expanded the cat

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Liberia once offered Black Americans a new home. Decades on, it is receiving migrants the US wants out

Is Liberia an American dumping ground — or a place where a new generation of arrivals can build a new life?That’s the question Liberians are asking themselves after the first people to be deported to the West African country from the United States arrived in the capital, Monrovia.The 20 people on the flight from Louisiana were the first to be sent under an agreement that could see up to 1,200 people transferred to Liberia, a country of less than 6 million people, many of them descendants of formerly enslaved Black Americans.Liberian officials said the new arrivals were from “African and

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Iran official says support for new sanctions would be an 'act of war,' and other Middle East news

The head of Iran’s top security body says Tehran will see any country’s support for new U_S_ economic measures against the Islamic Republic as an “act of war."

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Mexican governor, indicted by US on cartel charges, requests leave again amid backlash

Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha, indicted by U.S. federal prosecutors on drug-trafficking, bribery and cartel-protection charges, again requested a leave of absence from

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Canada to retaliate for US tariffs, worsening ties after talks fail

Canada will impose tariffs on some U.S. goods in retaliation for 50% levies ordered by President Donald Trump on Canadian products,

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Iran says new sanctions threatened by 'desperate' US will fail

Iran's foreign minister dismissed the threat of new U.S. sanctions as a sign of desperation on Sunday and said the expected new measures

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls