Day: December 28, 2024

“I’ve always liked the visas,” he said, siding with tech leaders against anti-immigration hardliners.

Deadly tornadoes hit the Houston area amid an expanding severe weather threat across the South.

Severe weather disrupted holiday travel on Saturday across the U.S. with deadly tornadoes in the southeast and heavy snow and wind on the west coast, delaying or canceling thousands of flights across the country. More than 7,000 flights in the U.S. were delayed on Saturday, according to the tracking site FlightAware, and more than 200 were canceled. About a third of the flights were delayed at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, according to FlightAware, and nearly half of the flights originating from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston were delayed.

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app. Now, he is opposing the Biden administration’s effort to do just that.

‘I’ve always liked the [H1-B] visas,’ Trump said of the special visa programme that helps highly skilled workers enter the country.

A tornado that touched down in Brazoria County struck some homes and other structures on Saturday, the authorities said. It was a day of tornado warnings in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Dec. 28—From Massena, where a duo began a millennium disaster food drive, to Glens Falls, where a company that supplied portable toilets saw a run on rentals, there were some serious preparations 25 years ago on the eve of the Y2K computer bug. A look at Times’ stories on the matter reflect a sense of calm preparation and a bit of alarm. But it was mostly a sense of the unknown as to what was …

US President-elect Donald Trump says he had “always” supported the H-1B program, which is used to bring skilled workers to the US. It comes after Elon Musk drew the ire of immigration hardliners.