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Zohran Mamdani's been called a communist who'll defund the police. Here's where he actually stands 09/20/2025 08:17am • President Donald Trump calls him a ���communist." His critics say he wants to defund the police. Zohran Mamdani insists he's just a guy trying to make New York City more affordable. Mamdani 's meteoritic rise to become the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor has put his past and present polic 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 Maryland comptroller: 80% of public schools in need of ���repair, renovation or replacement��� 09/19/2025 07:24pm • Just 20% of the state���s school buildings are in satisfactory shape or better, while the other 80% would need ���repair, renovation or replacement��� to get to that level, according to a report released Thursday. The report from Comptroller Brooke Lierman said that the state needs to improve its Senate rejects competing bills to fund government, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1 09/19/2025 06:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date. Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the other side for the standoff. Why Newsom's push for new House maps isn't a sure thing, even in heavily Democratic California 09/19/2025 06:21pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Gov. Gavin Newsom���s proposal on the Nov. 4 ballot to reshape California���s U.S. House districts to add five Democratic seats in advance of the 2026 midterm elections is not a sure sale with voters, even in a state where Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by nearly 2-t California Gov. Gavin Newsom extends signature program aimed at curbing carbon emissions 09/19/2025 05:49pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday extended a signature state program aimed at reducing planet-warming emissions through 2045, a move Democrats cheered but Republicans warned would raise gas prices. The program known as cap and trade sets a declining limit on total gr Who qualifies for 'no tax on tips' and what counts as a tip? Here are the new rules 09/19/2025 04:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Treasury Department is moving closer to making President Donald Trump's ��� no tax on tips ��� promise a reality. But new guidance released Friday tends to limit the number of tipped workers who will be able to claim the benefit. The agency on Friday submitted proposed reg Gen Z's credit scores are dropping. Here's what to do if yours is too 09/19/2025 12:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Gen Z has seen its credit scores drop more than any other generation over the past year, largely because of student loan debt, according to a new report out this week. The total national average credit score dropped two points this year to 715, according to the report from credit What a new poll shows about where Americans think the country is heading 09/19/2025 11:00am • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� Republicans��� outlook on the direction of the country has soured dramatically, according to a new AP-NORC poll that was conducted shortly after last week's assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The share of Republicans who see the country headed in the righ Trump wraps up UK state visit with gratitude for his hosts while largely sidestepping tough issues 09/19/2025 03:18am • AYLESBURY, England (AP) ��� President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was ���tremendously thankful��� for the pageantry and splendor lavished on him during his second state visit to the United Kingdom as he wrapped up a trip that largely sidestepped major public disagreements over difficult trade Strikes and protests roil France, pitting the streets against Macron and his new prime minister 09/18/2025 07:34pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Marching with thousands of other protesters in Paris, hospital nurse Aya Tour�� put her finger on the pulse of many who took to streets across France on Thursday against the government of President Emmanuel Macron. ���Fed up. Really, really fed up," she said. ���Those people governing Ukrainian refugees in US face precarious future after losing legal right to work 09/18/2025 04:09pm • SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) ��� The first time Denys���s children heard fireworks go off in Spokane, Washington, they were terrified. His kids had grown up about 20 miles from the Russian border, in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, and they knew too well the booms of Russian missile attacks and screeching sou Hyundai says it will spend $2.7 billion expanding part of the Georgia complex raided by ICE 09/18/2025 04:05pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Hyundai Motor Group on Thursday confirmed it is going forward with previously announced plans to expand its Georgia plant, just weeks after an immigration raid delayed the startup of an electric vehicle battery plant at the site. As part of a broader investment strategy, Hyundai sai Gunman kills 2 at Israeli-run crossing between West Bank and Jordan. 4 soldiers killed in Gaza 09/18/2025 04:04pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� A Jordanian aid truck driver opened fire and killed two people at an Israeli-run border crossing in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, officials said. The Israeli military also said that four soldiers were killed in the southern Gaza Strip, and that a drone had struck in the area