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US judge skeptical of challenge to $100,000 H-1B visa fee

 A federal judge on Friday said US President Donald Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly-skilled foreign workers seems to fall under his broad powers to regulate immigration, casting doubt on a...

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Trump floats cutting China tariffs to 80% ahead of talks

A man delivers a roll of fabric outside a textile market which sells to the domestic market as well as for export, in Shaoxing, China. — AFP

US and Europe on 'same team', says Vance

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a discussion at the Munich Leaders meeting in Washington. — AFP

Tips for Green card holders while traveling to outside US

The Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration has fueled anxiety at airports, border crossings and other U.S. ports of entry, with visa holders and tourists concerned that they may be detained or deported. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

Carney expects 'constructive' talks with Trump

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney walks off after a press conference in Ottawa. — AFP

The world’s oldest person dies at 116

Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas

Musk admits DOGE cost-cutting drive falls short

Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting held by President Trump at the White House. — Reuters

Carney wins comeback race in Canada’s federal election

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney attends an event at the Liberal Party election night headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario. - Reuters

Carney's Liberals win Canada election

Mark Carney

Canadians to vote on new govt as Trump looms

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Ottawa International Airport, during election day in Ottawa, Ontario. - Reuters

Carney delays campaign events after Vancouver tragedy

An ambulance is parked at the site of the Lapu Lapu party, in Vancouver, Canada. — AFP

Opinion- Trump wants you to think resistance is futile. It is not

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White House mulls slashing China tariffs

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Trump marks first 100 days of second term

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Anti-Trump protests hit cities

Demonstrators gather during a rally

NASA's oldest astronaut returns

WASHINGTON: A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, the day of Pettit's milestone birthday. "Today at 0420 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan," Russia's space agency Roscosmos said. Spending 220 days in space, Pettit and his crewmates Ovchinin and Vagner orbited the Earth 3,520 times and completed a journey of 93.3 million miles over the course of their mission. NASA images of the landing showed the small capsule parachuting down to Earth with the sunrise as a backdrop. The astronauts gave thumbs-up gestures as rescuers carried them from the spacecraft to an inflatable medical tent. Despite looking a little worse for wear as he was pulled from the vessel, Pettit was "doing well and in the range of what is expected for him following return to Earth," NASA said in a statement. — AFP
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