The Department of Labor has announced sweeping new punishments against major tech companies it says are laying off American workers and replacing them with lower-paid foreign guest workers.
The targets include some of the biggest and most iconic players. Two of them, Microsoft and Adobe, have been suspended from a program that lets companies convert guest workers into permanent immigrants.
The Labor Department said that was a response to abuse of the system: hiring foreign workers at lower wages to hold jobs that used to be done by Americans.
The two programs at issue are the J-1 visa, which allows schools and institutions to bring in foreign researchers, and the H-1B visa, which is intended to be reserved for highly skilled workers who cannot be found in the U.S.
Democrat Abdul El‑Sayed wasted no time going after former Rep. Mike Rogers over the Iran war — and he didn’t let up in their first U.S. Senate debate Michigan.
El-Sayed argued Michiganders are struggling to make ends meet because of President Trump’s war and his tariffs. Rogers stood his ground, saying El‑Sayed’s liberal agenda would “raise the cost of everything you touch” and accused him of falsely portraying himself as a physician.
They both criticized each other for owning properties out of state, with El-Sayed criticizing Rogers’ large home in Florida and Rogers questioning him about the properties he owns overseas.
The U.S. military has executed at least 135 of its own over the past 250 years. In a few weeks, former Army psychiatrist and mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan’s name is likely to be added to that list.
Hasan is scheduled to face an Army firing squad Dec. 3 at Fort Hood, the Texas base north of Austin, where he fatally shot 13 people in 2009. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the public will be able to watch it.
Capital punishment, especially in the modern era, is exceedingly rare in the military. Hasan’s execution would be the first since Army Pvt. and convicted child rapist John Bennett was hanged in 1961. Still, the total number is almost surely higher than the 135 for which records exist.
More than 1,000 separate components make up the F-35 fighter jet’s ejection seat. Seat belts for some ejection and crashworthy seats contain more than 100 pieces. Disassembling and rebuilding the seat, which weighs more than 200 pounds, takes more than 100 hours.
Inside the Martin-Baker America factory in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, more than 170 employees build and maintain ejection seats, as well as crashworthy seats for Black Hawk helicopters and other military choppers.
The complex, labor-intensive process of manufacturing the seats sits somewhere between an art and a science, a task that cannot be fully turned over to machines.
And finally … The Halloween and Costume Association says Trump administration tariffs on Chinese plastics and textiles have raised prices this spooky season.
Sean salai reports A basic children’s witch costume is now as much as $60, up from $40 in 2025 and $20 in 2024.
Costume suppliers have started importing materials from nations with lower tariffs, such as India and Vietnam, according to the trade group. However, prices have increased as importers absorb higher duties.
The National Retail Federation projects that domestic spending on Halloween will surge to a record $13.5 billion this year.
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