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The Malawi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday it will begin repatriating its citizens from South Africa due to a wave of anti-immigrant violence. Mozambique said on Tuesday that five of its own nationals were murdered in South Africa’s town of Mossel Bay. South African police said Mossel Bay was convulsed by riots on Friday, resulting in 55 shacks being set ablaze following anti-immigrant protests. South African national broadcaster SABC said tensions over undocumented migrants taking jobs with construction companies had reached a boiling point. Police responding to sporadic reports of violence soon began finding dead bodies, as reported…

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson (R-PA) is reportedly planning to roll out an expansion of the H-2A visa program, funneling more foreign workers into United States farm jobs. The move is likely to disincentivize farms from turning to robots and tech as a solution to labor challenges. According to new reports, Thompson is expected to circulate plans that would see U.S. farms rely more on foreign H-2A visa workers over incentives for such farms to mechanize their workforce with highly productive machines and robots. Already, the H-2A visa program allows U.S. farms to outsource an unlimited number of agricultural…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs on Tuesday, June 2. Rubio testified earlier in the day before the Senate Armed Services Committee, answering questions about a number of topics, chief among them the conflict with Iran. President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire on Monday between Israel and Hezbollah while continuing to negotiate a peace agreement with Iran. Read the full article here

Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) accused Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) of advocating for the terrorist organization Hezbollah during remarks on the House floor Wednesday. Miller’s attack on the Palestinian-American congresswoman came during debate over a proposal she introduced that would block U.S. forces from entering Lebanon, a center of Hezbollah operations. In stressing the danger Hezbollah poses to U.S. allies in the Middle East, Miller characterized Hezbollah as “butchers that you like to hang out with to a certain extent,” referring to Tlaib. Tlaib protested Miller’s comments, prompting a shouting match between the two on the House floor. “You advocate for…

The US president says he confronted the Israeli prime minister over Israel’s attack on Lebanon US President Donald Trump has confirmed reports that he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “f***ing crazy” during a heated phone conversation over Israel’s military operations in Lebanon.Axios reported earlier this week that Trump had angrily urged Netanyahu to cancel planned strikes on Beirut, warning that further escalation could jeopardize ongoing US-Iran negotiations and a fragile regional ceasefire.Speaking on the New York Post’s ‘Pod Force One’ podcast on Wednesday, Trump acknowledged using the language attributed to him.”I did,” he said when asked whether he had…

The FCC on Wednesday launched a proceeding that seeks to review the agency’s nearly $3 billion E-Rate program to ensure that E-Rate-funded networks are being used to protect America’s children. Carr said in a statement: Over the last several years—and especially during COVID—many schools dramatically increased screen time for kids, with many students now swiping for hours every day. Research has now been pouring in that America’s experiment with heightened screen time in schools may be related to the negative educational outcomes we are now seeing in classrooms across the country—from declining academic performance to diminished reading comprehension skills. “Indeed,…

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Wednesday to bolster customs enforcement and bring more accountability to the federal workforce. Trump signed the orders in the Oval Office, flanked by Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, and staffers. The first order establishes more stringent rules for importers of record to follow. The White House notes these include: increasing bonding requirements and requiring IORs to maintain at all times a minimum level of tangible domestic assets, bonding, or both; subjecting foreign IORs to heightened requirements for formal entry; authorizing…

Samsung plans to its relocate its U.S. headquarters to Plano, Texas, which will cost New Jersey roughly 1,000 jobs. The South Korean tech giant said this week that it would move its headquarters out of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, to its campus in Plano, Texas, less than one year after it celebrated the opening of a new headquarters in Bergen County, New Jersey. The transition will be completed by the end of the year, according to Samsung. Samsung has been in Bergen County for roughly three decades and operated its Ridgefield Park headquarters from the early 1990s before moving to…

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has been rescheduled after the actions of a potential assassin abruptly ended the first event. In a letter to WHCA members, Weijia Jiang, president of the organization and a CBS News reporter, said the event will proceed, noting that it is particularly important given that America is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. “We will not allow an act of violence to have the last word, especially during a year when we are reflecting on the 250th anniversary of America and everything we stand for,” Jiang wrote, explaining that “rescheduling was not automatic.” “It was a…

The footage disputes Tehran’s previous claim that the damage was likely caused by a US air-defense missile that veered off course Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation has released a video it says shows the moment an alleged Iranian drone hit Terminal 1 at Kuwait International Airport on June 3.The agency described the incident as a “brutal Iranian drone attack,” saying it caused loss of life, serious injuries, and extensive material damage.Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry previously said at least one person had been killed when a projectile struck the terminal and other “vital facilities,” including diplomatic missions. Several others were injured,…