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The proposal aims to crack down on the Optional Practical Training program, which DHS claims is a “magnet for fraud.”
The Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States through the Optional Practical Training program. The administration said the fee is aimed at cracking down on fraud in foreign enrollment.
The proposal aims to crack down on the Optional Practical Training program, which DHS claims is a “magnet for fraud.”
The proposal aims to crack down on the Optional Practical Training program, which DHS claims is a “magnet for fraud.”
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States, the latest effort from the Trump administration to crack down on foreign enrollment.
NYTimes – US Dolores Huerta, the labor and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez, has died at 96, her family said. She helped improve pay and conditions for farm workers and coined the rallying cry "Sí, se puede!" Earlier in 2026, she told The New York Times that Chavez had raped her decades earlier.
NYTimes – US Recent developments in a similar case and advances in forensic science linked the death of Melissa Ann Smith, 17, to one of the nation’s most notorious serial killers, officials said.
Attorneys for two former FBI agents charged with lying to Congress about past probes of Hunter Biden are back in court seeking to have the case dismissed.
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