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Sep 29, 2026 - World

The White House boasted about 1,750 jobs that would be created from a new $15 billion steel plant announced by President Donald Trump, but several right-wing figures expressed outrage Tuesday as details about the project began to emerge.The steel mill will be constructed by Mesabi Metallics, a Minnesota-based company that carries years of baggage, including project delays, bankruptcy, unpaid contractors and disputes with Minnesota state officials. However, what frustrated right-wing figures was not the company’s financial struggles, but rather its use of the H-1B visa program.“Mesabi Metallics is owned by an India-based company and is already an H1B sponsor,” wrote Grace Chong, the chief operating officer for “War Room,” the program run by Trump’s former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. “So how many of the 1,750 jobs at its new Iowa steel plant will actually go to American workers?”Mesabi Metallics is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Essar Group, an India-based conglomerate whose portfolio companies had aggregate annual revenues of around $15 billion as of January 2025. Mesabi Metallics has already sponsored workers through the U.S. H-1B visa program, a federal program allowing employers “who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce” to sponsor foreign workers for employment.Critics have scrutinized employers’ use of the program, accusing companies of relying on it for “cheap labor” and using it as a tool to “prevent union organizing.”“Trump brags about bringing in a steel company and come to find out it’s from India and already uses H1B visas to import workers,” wrote former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in a social media post on X Tuesday.“MAGA is so America Last it’s almost comical at this point. Oh but we have to stop the communists Democrats!! Meanwhile Trump [loves New York City Mayor Zohran] Mamdani and [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping]!”Trump brags about bringing in a steel company and come to find out it’s from India and already uses H1B visas to import workers.MAGA is so America Last it’s almost comical at this point.Oh but we have to stop the communists Democrats!!Meanwhile Trump ❤️’s Mamdani and Xi!!???? https://t.co/OXyKVG9p9h— Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene???????? (@FmrRepMTG) September 29, 2026

Sep 29, 2026 - World

Discrepancy in data comes amid row between Pennsylvania governor and health secretary RFK Jr over measles deathsA second measles death in the US has been announced on Tuesday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as the country grapples with an outbreak affecting 47 states.As of 24 September, a total of 3,659 measles cases have been confirmed by the CDC, with the two deaths having been confirmed on Tuesday. The confirmation did not specify in which states the deaths had occurred. Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - World

PM, in first speech to party conference as leader, insists his plans are a ‘good deal’ for older peopleBurnham to signal willingness to look at scrapping pension triple lock to fund social careAngela Rayner, the housing secretary, has apparently confirmed that Andy Burnham will float the prospect of getting rid of the pensions triple lock to help fund the creation of an NHS-style care service.Asked about the prospect on Sky’s Electoral Dysfunction podcast, Rayner said that Burnham was “absolutely right to start the conversation” and that he was being “brave”.The high principle on this is that people have paid in all their lives. They are willing, I think, to look at that.What they don’t want is what they consider to be, quite frankly, incompetent politicians that are going to take something from us to fill a black hole.When we met with Andy [Burnham] this week, it certainly wasn’t mentioned.But I do think that it’s important that Labour make sure that working-class people know that they’re on their side, and this would be a direction of travel that would say the opposite to that.What I understood the national care service to be was a universal benefit: everybody paid in and everybody gets out, and that is what actually the principle of that is.Going to a group of people who are getting around £12,500 a year in order to pay for it to take away their security is wrong. Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - World

Relations between the two countries soured in January when a UAE-backed force was defeated by Saudi Arabia in YemenSaudi Arabia is being urged to reconcile with the United Arab Emirates over Yemen as the price Riyadh must pay to form a military alliance capable of driving the Houthis back.Relations between the UAE and Saudi Arabia in Yemen, where both had backed anti-Houthi forces, plummeted in January this year when a force with which it had been aligned – the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) – was attacked and defeated by Saudi Arabia in a move intended to squash its attempt to recreate a separate southern state. The UAE subsequently effectively quit Yemen. Continue reading...

Sep 29, 2026 - World

President says he will ‘never stifle’ AI development while unveiling sweeping tool to access federal government sitesSign up to the US Breaking News emailFor some context, it’s worth remembering that Smith had a two-volume report of his findings as a result of his criminal investigations – that resulted in two indictments against the president after his first term. The first focused on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, while the second on the president’s retention of classified documents.However, in February, a Trump-appointed federal judge permanently barred the justice department from releasing the second volume of Smith’s report. Continue reading...