Today's five.

A US judge has invalidated Donald Trump’s $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications, ruling it an unlawful tax that violated federal administrative law and the constitution. US district judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the 42-page ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump announced in September that dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H-1B visas.. The ruling vacated the sweeping fee, which was a 20-to-50 fold increase on existing rates, and the Trump administration is widely expected to appeal. In his ruling, Sorokin’s found that the fee amounted to a tax, rather than a regulatory restriction. Since the constitution gives…

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Trump have struck an unlikely alliance through their mutual love of the city, but the reception from fans at Monday night’s highly anticipated Knicks game at Madison Square Garden represents a test of who is politically hot and who’s not in the Big Apple. The two telegenic politicians will both likely be in the spotlight on the MSG Jumbotron as the New York Knicks face the San Antonio Spurs in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. One is the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, a democratic socialist who defied the odds on a message of affordability. The other is a Queens native famous for his gilded life but who forged a new conservative movement by appealing…

Trump on Iran: 'We have all the power' In a call with the Israeli prime minister, President Donald Trump told ABC News that he told Benjamin Netanyahu to "use his judgment" but warned not to hurt his effort to get a peace deal with Iran. "I don't want to do anything that's going to hurt the deal, but I said, 'You have to use your own judgment.' Just go out and use your own judgment, but I don't want the deal to be hurt," Trump told ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl in a telephone interview on Monday. The president insisted that negotiations with Iran are actively going on and that "we're trying to finish it up." Trump said he wouldn't say it's "complicated," saying…

Timothée Chalamet reacts during the second quarter of a game between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks in Game Three of the 2026 NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden on June 08, 2026 in New York City.

16:47 News Story Ashley Moody backed proposal to bar ‘anti-weaponization’ payments to J6 rioters who assaulted police A small crowd of far-right activists marched on the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, in a nonviolent protest. They followed the path of the march five years earlier, when rioters attacked the Capitol in an attempt to stop certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom) Florida’s junior U.S. senator, Ashley Moody has been a consistent supporter of the Trump administration since she was appointed to her seat by Gov. Ron DeSantis in January 2025. However, she broke with the administration last week in a vote on an amendment…