Kenya initially demanded similar wages, according to a government report, but when Saudi Arabia balked, Kenya agreed to a deal in 2015 with no minimum wage at all.

The African countries provide a “new and lower-cost services market,” one of Saudi Arabia’s largest staffing agencies, Maharah Human Resources Company, wrote in 2019.

Using employment contracts, medical files and autopsies, reporters linked deaths and injuries to staffing agencies and the people who run them. What became clear was that powerful people profit off the system as it exists.

In Uganda, Isiko Moses Waiswa said that when he learned his wife had died in Saudi Arabia, her employer there gave him a choice: her body or her $2,800 in wages.

“She was screaming, ‘Please come save me!’” her mother recalled. Ms. Achieng soon turned up dead in a rooftop water tank, her mother said. Saudi health officials said her body was too decomposed to determine how she died. The Saudi police labeled it a “natural death.”

A spokesman for Mr. Ruto, Hussein Mohamed, said that labor migration benefited the economy. He said the government was taking steps to protect workers, including weeding out unlicensed recruiting firms that are more likely to have shoddy practices

Nearly every staffing agency refused to answer questions or ignored repeated requests for comment. That includes Mr. Muli, Mr. Nzaire and their companies.

Spend two years in Saudi Arabia as a housekeeper or nanny, the pitch goes, and you can earn enough to build a house, educate your children and save for the future.

Thomas Brown, a lawyer representing Dr. Alawieh and her employer, Brown Medicine, said that while the doctor was in Lebanon, the U.S. consulate issued her an H-1B visa, which allows highly skilled foreign citizens to live and work in the United States. Brown Medicine, a nonprofit medical practice, had sponsored her application for the visa.

The student said he believed his campus activism could make him a target for deportation.

Alien Enemies Act of 1798, an obscure wartime law, to deport Venezuelans with little to no due process.

signed an executive order

The national measles, mumps and rubella vaccination rate has steadily declined, driven down by missed doctors’ appointments and growing mistrust in science and vaccines.

inflaming the housing crisis.

The new geography of work — along with, perhaps, new discomfort with crowded spaces and fears about crime — has changed Americans’ relationship to public transportation…

we beat the flu — but just for a season.

Time spent watching television

submitting far more business applications than before the pandemic.

Among women 25 to 54 who have a child under 5

Time socializing with others

Americans hunkered down and bought a lot of alcohol — a billion dollars more.

Russia invades Ukraine

Money spent on food

The ‘Great Resignation’

Three million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the first week

“What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that’ll make it easier to annex us,” Mr. Trudeau said during a news conference on Tuesday. “That’s never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.”

“However, as we have stated on many occasions, the government of that country must also take responsibility for the opioid crisis that has caused so many deaths in the United States.”

“Canada and Mexico had an invitation to trade with an amazing economy, the United States of America, and they have abused that invitation,” Mr. Lutnick said.

Mr. Lutnick said on CNBC that the tariffs were “not a trade war,” calling the conflict a “drug war” instead.

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“Day in the life of a cancer patient,” he said in a video diary he began keeping after his diagnosis. “So I guess that’s what I’ve become. Rather than a dad or husband.”

He said he tries to emulate an “old-timey country doctor” and once helped throw a 100th birthday party for one of his patients.

Pacific paradise: Puerto Vallarta was briefly a tourist hot spot in the 1960s. But its appeal is timeless.

The Pitt’ is the talk of real-life hospital breakrooms

the charges impeded Adams’s ability to aid Trump’s program of mass deportation.

On “The Daily,” federal workers told their stories

Despite Musk’s suggesting otherwise, there aren’t actually tens of millions of dead people receiving Social Security checks.

“We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation,” Trump said.

Consumers To offset higher import costs, retailers often increase prices, passing the burden on to consumers. As a result, consumers effectively pay for the tariff, reducing their purchasing power.

A pillar of President Trump’s policies has been tariffs, which are taxes on products imported from other countries.

While many in Europe are worried that Mr. Trump will strike one-by-one deals with countries in Europe — cleaving the union apart — it is also plausible that pressure could draw Europe and its partners closer together.

Mr. Trump’s rhetoric could hasten more European military spending, that change was widely seen as needed.

“A lot is at stake for both sides,” she said during a speech in Davos on Tuesday, adding that “our first priority” would be to negotiate.

Two of his first acts as president were to withdraw from the Paris climate agreements and the World Health Organization.

Back then, tariffs on steel and aluminum surprised America’s allies across the Atlantic Ocean.