Egyptians had an asylum grant rate of 72% during the 12-month period through September 2024, compared with 45% for all nationalities, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
There is no known source for the billions of dollars that would be needed to complete the line.California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO
that private investors could step in and fill the funding gap for the project that promised nonstop rail service between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours. At the time, he acknowledged that even if funding is secured, it might take nearly two more decades to complete most of that segment.President Donald Trump — whonearly $1 billion in federal dollars for the project in his first term — said in May that his administration will not continue to fund the line. “That train is the worst cost overrun I’ve ever seen,” Trump told reporters at the time, calling it “totally out of control.”
California Democratic U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff called the administration’s announcement a “devastating” blow for 21st century transportation and an effort to punish a heavily Democratic state that didn’t support the Republican president in the election.“High-speed rail is the future of transportation with the potential to bring customers to new businesses, businesses to new employees and to connect communities hundreds of miles away with affordable and faster transit,” they said in a joint statement.
Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of millions of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.
Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit’s content despite being asked not to do so, and “intentionally trained on the personal data of Reddit users without ever requesting their consent.”Trump’s return to the White House has come
, with levies threatened, addedin such a whiplash-inducing frenzy it’s hard to keep up. He insisted the latest tariff hike was necessary to “even further secure the steel industry in the U.S.”
That promise, though, could be at odds with his pledge to reduce food costs.Rising grocery prices, Trump has said,