US President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop buying Russian oil over the war in Ukraine, as Erdogan sought a long-awaited deal to buy US stealth fighter jets.

US lawmakers have asked major US companies, including Apple, Amazon and JPMorgan, to explain why they are hiring thousands of foreign workers on H-1B visas while cutting other jobs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Elon Musk’s xAI has struck a deal with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to provide the artificial intelligence startup’s Grok chatbot to federal agencies, the government’s procurement arm said on Thursday.