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Meanwhile, several Americans were hurt in a missile attack on a Kuwaiti airbase.
An Iranian ballistic missile strike on the airbase caused minor injuries to several Americans and seriously damaged two MQ-9 Reaper strike drones.
That's according to a person with direct knowledge of the attack.
A Ukrainian drone has struck the machine room building of one of the power units at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which caused unspecified damage.
Ukraine's Southern Military Command, though, denied any strikes.
Ukraine and Russia traded aerial attacks on Saturday as President Volodymyr Zelensky held a special meeting on next steps with top aides.
With the strain of the Ebola virus continuing to spread in Africa, Tom Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Bloomberg this weekend the world is not doing a good job preparing for the next pandemic.
African officials said earlier this week they have only received pledges meeting a little over half of the $500 million needed to fight the outbreak.
The U.S.
under President Trump has stopped paying dues to the World Health Organization, cut more than 3,000 jobs at the Centers for Disease Control, and pushed out some of the agency's senior leadership.
New data shows local economies have taken a hard hit from the Trump administration's immigration surge last year.
Bloomberg's Monica Ricks with details.
The Department of Homeland Security has clarified that highly qualified and skilled green card applicants will see no noticeable impact from a controversial policy announced last week that most people seeking permanent legal residency would have to apply from outside the U.S.
The move appeared aimed at reassuring employers and immigrants that the process wouldn't become restrictive.
Guidance issued last week by the U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, along with a statement from a department spokesperson, said that immigrants looking to get a green card would have to return to their home country to apply, except for in, quote, extraordinary circumstances.
The Trump administration says it plans to appeal a judge's authority to order across-the-board refunds of all tariffs ruled illegal by the Supreme Court.
U.S.
Customs and Border Protection launched a refund portal in April to pay back most of the $166 billion in tariffs, but the system didn't allow all importers to recover duties.
Officials had suggested the government only needed to refund importers who sued.