FBI Director Kash Patel/Image: AP The FBI has demoted two senior counterterrorism officials in Washington and reassigned them to bureau headquarters amid dissatisfaction over their handling of an investigation into allegedly threatening phone calls targeting Katie Miller, the wife of senior White House aide Stephen Miller, Bloomberg Law reported, citing three people.Michael Burgwald, special agent…

US tightens H-1B scrutiny. The H-1B visa programme could undergo major changes over the next year as the Trump administration expands a nationwide investigation into alleged foreign-labor fraud, worker exploitation and potential human trafficking.Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito said the foreign-labor visa system could look substantially different a year from now, signalling tougher scrutiny…

The storm has brought strong winds, heavy rain, coastal flooding and high surf across the Northeast. A 56-year-old man was killed after a fallen tree struck him in Brooklyn on Saturday as a powerful early-season storm, known as a nor’easter, battered the US Northeast with heavy rain and strong winds.Emergency crews were called to Euclid…