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What to know about the H-1B visa Trump has targeted with $100,000 fees, generating confusion, fear 09/22/2025 06:34pm • The Trump administration's abrupt decision to slap a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas has stunned and confused employers, students and workers from the United States to India and beyond. Since announcing the decision Friday, the White House has tried to reassure jittery companies that the fee does not app Trump has managed another Republican makeover since Kirk's assassination, this time on free speech 09/22/2025 04:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Since Charlie Kirk���s assassination, President Donald Trump and his allies have praised the conservative organizer and provocateur as a free speech champion who set a high First Amendment standard for the ���Make America Great Again��� movement. Trump, eulogizing Kirk on Sunday Google faces antitrust d��j�� vu as US seeks to break up its digital advertising business 09/22/2025 04:30pm • After deflecting the U.S. Justice Department's attack on its illegal monopoly in online search, Google is facing another attempt to dismantle its internet empire in a trial focused on its abusive tactics in digital advertising. The trial that opened Monday in an Alexandria, Virginia, federal court r Moldova's election faces AI-driven disinformation from Russia 09/22/2025 11:43am • CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) ��� Moldovans are facing a flood of disinformation driven by artificial intelligence ahead of a critical parliamentary election, which will determine whether the small country can stay on its path toward the European Union or is pulled back into Moscow���s orbit. Ahead of Sund Japanese automaker Nissan is developing vehicles with self-driving technology 09/22/2025 04:57am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japanese automaker Nissan is developing vehicles with self-driving technology as it works to turn around its struggling auto business. In a recent demonstration of the technology developed by British company Wayve, a Nissan Ariya sedan outfitted with 11 cameras, five radars and a next Man who tried to assassinate Kavanaugh wanted to kill 3 justices, feds say 09/22/2025 04:54am • Washington ��� The California man who pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 aimed to kill three members of the high court in an effort to "single-handedly alter the constitutional order for ideological ends," according to federal prosecutors. Th Police: Death of man found in Montgomery Co. apartment being investigated as homicide 09/21/2025 03:26pm • The death of a man whose body was found in his Maryland apartment Sunday morning is being investigated as a homicide, according to Montgomery County police. Officers responded to an apartment in the 5900 block of Montrose Road in North Bethesda shortly before 7:45 a.m. and found a man dead inside Venezuelan president's YouTube account offline as tensions with US escalate 09/20/2025 07:04pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� The YouTube account of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was offline Saturday, with Venezuelan state-run channel Telesur claiming in a message on X that it was ���eliminated��� late the previous night without justification. YouTube���s parent company Google did not immedi White House says $100K H-1B visa fee won't apply to existing holders as Trump move stirs anxiety 09/20/2025 06:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump���slatest plan to overhaul the American immigration system has left some immigrant workers confused, forcing the White House on Saturday to scramble to clarify that a new $100,000 fee on visas for skilled tech workers only applies to new applicants and not WTOP reflections: Staffers and listeners look back on the work of Jeff Clabaugh 09/20/2025 03:49pm • WTOP staffers, past and present, as well as listeners, remember business reporter Jeff Clabaugh, who died Thursday night at age 63. He was known for delivering money news twice an hour on WTOP���s airwaves and writing short-to-the-point stories for the website. Staffers reflect on their coll Woman hospitalized after apartment fire in Southeast DC 09/20/2025 12:36pm • A woman is in the hospital after a fire at her apartment building in Southeast D.C. Friday morning. D.C. Fire and EMS said they got a call after 10:50 a.m. to go to the 2700 Block of Jasper Street for a report of a fire on the third floor of a three-story apartment building. They put out the f Trump signs proclamation adding $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications 09/19/2025 09:14pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation that will require a $100,000 annual visa fee for highly-skilled foreign workers and rolled out a $1 million ���gold card��� visa as a pathway to U.S. citizenship for wealthy individuals, moves that face near-certain legal cha The Latest: Trump overhauls H-1B visa for high-skilled workers and adds new $100,000 annual fee 09/19/2025 09:13pm • President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation that will require a new annual $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications, among other changes to the program for highly skilled foreign workers. H-1B visas are meant to bring the best and brightest foreigners for high-skilled jobs that tech compan Uber Eats will soon launch US drone delivery in partnership with Flytrex 09/18/2025 11:13am • Uber Eats will soon be making some meal deliveries with drones. Uber Technologies said Thursday that it���s partnering with drone company Flytrex Inc. The companies expect to begin deliveries in test markets by the end of this year. Uber didn't say where those markets will be, but Flytrex is already How Huawei plans to outperform global tech leaders with less powerful chips 09/18/2025 06:54am • BEIJING (AP) ��� China's Huawei Technologies said Thursday that it would roll out the world's most powerful AI computing clusters over the next two years as it seeks to outperform global leaders despite relying on less powerful domestic semiconductors. China is racing to develop its own technology a