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A federal judge is ruled that President Trump's $100,000 fee for H1B visa applications is unlawful. As NPR's Serio Martinez-Baltron reports, the visas are given to highly skilled foreign workers. Boston Federal Judge Leo Sorrokin ruled that $100,000 fee constituted a tax, something the president has no authority to implement.
But for the cost of H1B visa applications ranged from $960 to about $7500. This ruling gives relief to employers, although the White House has said it will appeal. This lawsuit was filed by 20 states, including California. They argued the fee would impede their ability to hire teachers for their primary and secondary schools, exacerbating existing teacher shortages.
They also said it would lead to a decline in medical workers. The Heo Martinez-Baltron NPR News Austin, Texas. This week, the House is expected to take up a bill to fund immigration enforcement for the next three years, and PR's Eric McDaniel says it cleared the Senate last week.
This $70 billion in immigration enforcement money was first delayed by President Trump's
“push for a billion dollars in secret service money for his ballroom project.”
That pushed failed. Then the money was held up by his fund to give tax payer bucks to folks who claim they've been victimized by the government. That's currently on hold due to a court decision, though Trump says he hopes to revive it.
As Republicans intend to send this immigration enforcement deal passed by the Senate Friday to the White House sometime this week. Then onto their next challenge. Renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which lets the government collect foreigners' communications abroad.
That fight got complicated, though, when Trump named a controversial pick to be acting director of national intelligence, lawmakers have until Friday to work it out, Eric McDaniel and PR News Washington. "Open AI, the maker of chatGPT says it's filed confidential paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to get the ball rolling on the potential IPO and PR's at John
Rouge reports."
“Open AI's plans to list shares on the Stock Exchange have been an open secret for a while”
now, but they've taken the first steps, saying they submitted confidential paperwork,
joining a wave of blockbuster IPOs this year. The move comes after competitor Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI models filed the same paperwork about a week ago, and Elon Musk's company SpaceX, which does rockets settle like communication, social media, and AI is poised for its own initial public offering of share to the public later this week.
Open AI says it has not decided on the timing yet, and says it may be a while, because there are things the company wants to do that are likely easier as a private company. The filing it says gives it the option to go public sooner if that ends up being the best thing. John Rouge and PR News.
"President Trump is sent to be the first sitting president to attend an NBA final game. He's attending game 3 between the New York Nix and San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden tonight. The police canceled a watch party outside and instituted a no bag policy for ticket holders. Mayor Zaron Mombani is also expected to be there. This is NPR News."
“Iran's World Cup team arrived in Mexico, wearing pins highlighting the victims of a deadly”
missile strike on an elementary school earlier this year. The pins included the number 168 referring to the people killed most of them children when likely U.S. strike hit a school in southern Iran. Bumblebee's have just solved a problem that for over a century had only been demonstrated by much larger creatures like chimps, elephants, and birds are a Daniel reports.
The task involves placing a reward out of reach of the animal overhead, and seeing if they can spontaneously figure out how to access it by moving an object beneath to stand the top. Oli Lugula, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Turku in Finland, placed Bumblebee as an hollow container about an inch high. "It's just annoyingly, a little bit too high for them to stand and reach the sailing,
but too tiny for them to fly." Lugula also placed a small styrofoam ball inside, which the bees appeared to roll beneath the reward, and then climb like a step stool to reach the otherwise unreachable reward. It's a first, he says, for an insect and a demonstration perhaps that intelligent brains come into verse shapes and sizes.
For NPR news, I'm Ari Daniel. Researchers at 23 and me say they have identified the lost remains of Maryland's second colonial governor, Thomas Green, who died in 1651, according to Maryland's matters. The discovery came after dozens of bodies were discovered in a graveyard in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
Researchers compared DNA from those bodies with many more than 11 and a half million
people. It's the first time ancient DNA has been used in this way. This is NPR. How did we get here? That's a question we have been trying to answer a lot here at NPR.
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