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🔮 While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Oct 9, 2026
US freezes Microsoft, Adobe, Infosys green-card applications
The Trump administration froze on Oct 8 some green-card filings by Microsoft, Adobe and major IT outsourcers and opened probes into nine top universities, widening a visa crackdown it says targets fraud and protects American jobs.
🔮 In the latest action on that front, his administration said on Oct 8 that it would indefinitely suspend the ability of a number of technology companies, including Microsoft Corp, to sponsor foreign employees for permanent residency in the US.
🔮 US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the firing squad execution of convicted military base shooter Nidal Hasan will be “public,” according to a video shared on Oct 8 by the Pentagon.
🔮 The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution on December 3 of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree, a Pentagon official said, in what would be an unprecedented move.
🔮 US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will meet Ukrainian representatives on Friday in Miami to discuss new ideas and proposals for addressing the war in Ukraine, an American source familiar with the plan said on Thursday.
🔮 Under PERM, required for most employment-based green cards, employers must show that hiring a foreign worker will not harm US workers’ wages or job opportunities.
🔮 Police opened an investigation into what it called an unlawful protest and said on Thursday that individuals would receive letters regarding interviews after it had identified people reasonably suspected of committing offences.
🔮 Zelenskiy earlier said that Ukraine's negotiators would hold talks in the United States on Friday and Saturday as part of efforts led by the United States to seek a settlement of the 4-1/2-year-old war with Russia.
🔮 BOGOTA, Oct 8 - Colombia would face major hurdles in meeting any commitments it makes under a prospective agreement with the International Monetary Fund, from which it is seeking billions of dollars amid a fiscal crisis, according to current and former officials and economists.
🔮 Brazil's tight presidential election has some investors, executives and climate-focused businesses worried that a government led by conservative Senator Flavio Bolsonaro may not maintain the policies underpinning the country's emerging green economy.
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