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The discovery of 10,000 "phantom employees" exploiting a federal work program has helped spur Republicans to tackle the financial incentives behind a foreign worker pipeline costing Americans hundreds of thousands of jobs per year.

Under current federal law, hundreds of thousands of foreign students and employers participating in the Optional Practical Training (OPT) extension program are exempt from paying Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes, which companies are required to pay for domestic workers. This has led to the creation of a "significant financial incentive" for employers to hire foreign OPT workers over Americans.

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Air France and Airbus were on Thursday found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a Paris appeals court in connection to the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in France's aviation history.

A Paris appeals court Thursday found Air France and Airbus guilty of involuntary manslaughter over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in France's aviation history.

For many people, Google’s search box is the lobby of the internet. Simple and intuitive, it has shaped how people navigate online for nearly three decades and was the driving force behind the company’s meteoric rise. 

Now, it is set to undergo a radical transformation to fully incorporate artificial intelligence.

The company announced on Tuesday that the search bar will be “completely reimagined with AI,” calling it the biggest change in more than 25 years.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completed 72 historic flights since first taking to the skies above the Red Planet.

On April 19, 2021, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it completed the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. It flew for the last time on Jan. 18, 2024.

Designed to be a technology demonstration that would make no more than five test flights in 30 days, the helicopter eventually completed 72 flights across nearly three years, soaring higher and faster than previously imagined. Ingenuity embarked on a new mission as an operations demonstration, serving as an aerial scout for scientists and rover planners, and for engineers ready to learn more about Perseverance’s landing-gear debris.

In its final phase, the helicopter entered a new engineering demonstration phase where it executed experimental flight tests that further expanded the team’s knowledge of the vehicle’s aerodynamic limits.

Since the beginning of his second term in the White House in January 2025, President Donald Trump has repeatedly targeted African countries with various travel restrictions and, in some cases, outright bans from entering the U.S.

Citizens of countries including Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Chad, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo, and Equatorial Guinea have been included in the full U.S. travel ban put in place in June 2025. Those from Angola, Benin, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are also prevented from applying for most business and student visas.

Nvidia (NVDA) reported its fiscal first quarter results after the bell on Wednesday, topping analysts’ expectations on the top and bottom lines and offering a better-than-anticipated Q2 outlook.

Nvidia stock initially fell more than 2% on the news.

For the second quarter, Nvidia said it anticipates revenue between $89.1 billion and $92.8 billion. Wall Street was looking for $87.3 billion.

For Q1, Nvidia reported earnings per share (EPS) of $1.87 on revenue of $81.62 billion, beating the $1.77 and $79.18 analysts had expected. The company also boosted its quarterly dividend to $0.25 per share.

Nvidia’s data center business brought in the bulk of its revenue, topping out at $75.2 billion. Wall Street analysts were projecting $73.47 billion. That’s up from the $39.11 billion Nvidia reported in Q1 last year.

According to CFO Colette Kress, hyperscaler revenue accounted for 50% of data center sales in the quarter. The remaining 50% came from a variety of sources including “AI Clouds, industrial, enterprise, and sovereign customers.”

Nvidia did not see any revenue from Hopper products into China occurred during the quarter, compared with $4.6 billion in the frst quarter of fiscal year 2026.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio marked Cuban Independence Day on Wednesday with a Spanish-language video message to the people of the island that blamed their "unimaginable hardships" on their communist leadership.

Why it matters: This is the first time Rubio has addressed the Cuban population directly as secretary of state. It's part of the Trump administration's multi-layered pressure campaign targeting Havana.

"The real reason you don't have electricity, fuel, or food is because those who control your country have plundered billions of dollars, but nothing has been used to help the people," Rubio says in the speech.

Later Wednesday, the Justice Department will unveil the indictment of Cuba's de facto leader, Raúl Castro, for allegedly ordering the shootdown of two Miami-based rescue planes in 1996.

A Texas man is facing criminal charges after intentionally driving his Cybertruck into a lake, authorities stated in a Tuesday post to social media.

The incident unfolded just before 8 p.m. Monday at Katie's Woods Park Boat Ramp in Grapevine, located approximately 25 miles north of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. When officers from the Grapevine Police Department arrived at the scene of the incident, they discovered that "a Tesla Cybertruck was in the water, near the shoreline."

The driver told authorities that he intentionally drove into the lake to test the Cybertruck's "Wade Mode" feature while other passengers were in the vehicle.

According to Tesla's Cybertruck owner's manual, the feature "allows Cybertruck to enter and drive through bodies of water, such as rivers or creeks." However, the feature comes with several warnings - and states that "The maximum wade depth is approximately 32 in. (815 mm) measuring from the bottom of the tire."

After the driver steered his Cybertruck into the lake, "The vehicle became disabled and took on water," police said. "The driver and passengers abandoned the vehicle and the Grapevine Fire Department Water Rescue Team assisted in removing it from the lake."

The driver was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle in a closed section of a park or lake, not having a valid boat registration, as well as on "numerous" water safety equipment violations charges.

"We want to remind drivers that although a vehicle may be physically capable of entering shallow freshwater areas, doing so can create legal and safety concerns under Texas law," authorities stated.

Last week we noted that we faced a period of instability for Treasuries. Since then, the US 10yr yield hit 4.6% last Friday, and today has just hit 4.65%. The overshoot and instability feared is upon us. The big driver? Higher real yields. There are reasons to fear this could be more structural than transitory

The big move up in yields in the past week has not come from higher inflation expectations but rather from higher real yields

The Louisiana senator, who lost his primary over the weekend, voted in support of the war powers resolution for the first time. It advanced 50-47, with a final passage vote yet to come.

A Senate Republican spurned by President Donald Trump joined Senate Democrats to handcuff his war powers in Iran and provided the key vote to advance a war powers resolution through a key hurdle.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., who lost his primary bid over the weekend, sided with Senate Democrats in their war of attrition to curtail Trump's policing powers in the Middle East. It comes after Democrats successfully gained another defector, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last week. 

Arsenal Premier League champions after Man City draw at Bournemouth

Cherries confirm their place in Europe next season

Guardiola expected to leave City at end of season with Maresca lined up as replacement

Inside Arsenal's title win

Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur - Fernandez scores from distance before Santos second, but Richarlison pulls one back

A Spurs point would effectively relegate West Ham

Denise, a patient of famous Beverly Hills, Calif., surgeon Dr. Carl Truesdale, was shocked to receive comments from all corners of the internet after undergoing plastic surgery.