Top US tech companies already pay some immigrants over $100,000

As the world grapples with the implications of President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, a leaked draft of another executive order is raising concerns in Silicon Valley that tech industry immigrants could...

Read this now: DeVos vote | Twitter crackdown | West Bank settlement | Obama kitesurfs

Here are some of the key stories CNBC is following this hour: Senate democrats have been mounting a marathon Senate session to derail the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as the secretary of Education. The Senate is slated to vote at noon. Two Republicans are expected to...

Someone is paying random internet users to lobby for Betsy DeVos’s confirmation

Someone out there really wants President Donald Trump’s polarizing nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, to get the job — so much so that they’ve been paying random internet users to write notes supporting her contentious confirmation....

Health insurer Centene’s quarterly revenue, profit beat

Centene reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit on Tuesday, helped by growth in its Obamacare individual business and as the health insurer’s efforts to turn around recently acquired Health Net paid off. Investors have increasingly focused on...