Category: Americas
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Meta has settled the states’ landmark case over teen social media addiction. Coverage put the figure at $16.7 billion, $17 billion and $18 billion — all in the same week. Here is what was actually agreed, and what changes on Facebook and Instagram.
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Five weeks after the Supreme Court struck down his birthright citizenship order 6-3, President Trump signed a new one that cites the ruling itself. It has attracted remarkably little attention.
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A federal court held that judicial immunity protects a judge accused of outsourcing a ruling to AI. That is not the same as saying judges may do it — immunity blocks a civil suit and leaves appeals, discipline and court rules entirely intact.
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Thomson Reuters has trained its own large language model on decades of Westlaw and Reuters content for around $40 million. The interesting question is not the model — it is whether owning the right data now beats owning the biggest system.
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An H-1B is tied to one employer, which is what makes it different from an ordinary job. Add a six-figure sunk cost to that relationship and the balance shifts again — though not in a direction anyone can predict with confidence.
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A federal judge struck down the last six-figure H-1B charge in June, holding that only Congress can levy a tax. The new fee comes through regulation instead of proclamation — slower, but built to survive the objection that killed the first one.
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DHS wants $103,265 for every capped H-1B petition — more than a hundred times the current filing fee, projected to raise $8.8 billion a year. It is a proposal, not a rule, and the last attempt cut filings by nearly 90 per cent.
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After a pause of more than two months, US Southern Command has resumed destroying boats it says carry drugs, killing two people in the eastern Pacific. The campaign has killed at least 223 people. The legal reasoning behind it remains classified.
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State Department documents obtained by the AP describe plans to revoke B1 and B2 visas held by up to 200,000 people who have sought asylum. It would be the largest mass revocation in US history — and revocation is not the same as deportation.
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At least 47 people were killed in an overnight raid on a farming community overlooking Port-au-Prince, according to the UN; a Haitian rights group counts 30 to 40. Residents say police fought and still could not protect them. An election is due in December.