Washington Today (10-8-26): VP Vance says Microsoft cannot bring in foreign workers on H-1B visas

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Vice President JD Vance announces Microsoft and some other technology firms have been suspended from sponsoring foreign workers with H-1B visas. He says Microsoft has been undercutting U.S. workers and treating foreign workers like indentured servants. President Donald Trump awards Microsoft's CEO the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of six technology & science medals he handed out today. President called another recipient, Elon Musk, head of Tesla and SpaceX, a 'modern day Thomas Edison.' New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman argues for greater regulation of AI at an American Bar Association conference on AI and national security. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) & Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) talk about the midterm elections, now less than four weeks away. President Trump says he will not attack Iran again before the U.S. election. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is asked about being booed by protesters at a vigil Wednesday night on the third