President Donald Trump portrayed his visa reforms as an opportunity for foreign students to remain in the United States if a company is willing to pay. Trump on Friday took two executive actions, signing one presidential proclamation that increased the fee for H1-B visa applicants to $100,000 and an executive order creating the Gold Card […]

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger appeared confident that she would succeed Gov. Glenn Youngkin (D-VA) as the next chief executive of the Old Dominion on the first day of early voting. At a campaign rally outside the Fairfax Government Center, Spanberger encouraged a group of supporters to cast their ballots […]

President Donald Trump’s first-term labor secretary, Alex Acosta, told congressional investigators on Friday that he never saw the then-businessman’s name appear in any records related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, according to a summary readout of his transcribed interview before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Acosta, who served as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida when Epstein […]

The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to sentence the man who tried to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a minimum of 30 years in prison, calling the plot a politically motivated and “disturbed” attempt to alter the makeup of the nation’s highest court. In a sentencing memorandum filed Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland cited […]