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Washington — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing systems at the Social Security Administration containing the sensitive information of millions of Americans, delivering another setback to President Trump’s efforts to overhaul the federal government. U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander wrote in a 137-page decision that
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Wife looks for husband thought to be deported Man with no criminal record believed to be deported and sent to El Salvador prison, lawyer says 02:59 CBS News has obtained an internal government list of the names of the Venezuelan men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador as part of a secretive operation last
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Minnesota Sen. Justin Eichorn resigned from the state Senate on Thursday in the wake of a federal criminal charge accusing him of soliciting sex from someone he thought was 17, but turned out to be an undercover cop. The move comes after Eichorn’s colleagues in the Republican caucus said they would vote to expel him from
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Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports. “It is a signal that we are truly global,” the Zimbabwe sports minister and two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist said. Hers was a stunning first-round win
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Thursday that American national George Glezmann was on his way back to the U.S. after being released by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. Glezmann, an Atlanta native, had been in custody after being detained by Taliban authorities while on a tourist visit to Afghanistan in December 2022. He had been deemed
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The United States this year fell to its lowest-ever place on the World Happiness Report, an annual survey published on International Day of Happiness. The 2025 report highlights the positive effects benevolence and social connections have on people’s life satisfaction. Finland remained the happiest nation for the eighth year in a row, while Mexico and Costa
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Tel Aviv — Israel’s defense minister threatened earlier this week to open “the gates of hell” in Gaza if Hamas refuses to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demands, and Israel has been delivering. At least 58 people were killed in a third consecutive night of airstrikes up and down the Palestinian territory, bringing the death toll
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The U.S. Department of State is offering a reward of up to $15 million for a woman and three accomplices who have been allegedly smuggling U.S. technology to Iran for nearly 20 years. Liu Baoxia, also known as Emily Liu, allegedly worked with three associates to use front companies in China to send U.S. electronic
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Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. The force is enormous — it makes up nearly 70% of the universe. And it is powerful — it is pushing all the stars and galaxies away from
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A lunar lander has completed its two-week mission and sent spectacular sunset images as a “final goodbye” back to Earth. The Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander was launched by Firefly Aerospace in mid-January and landed on the moon on March 2. It was the first successful commercial moon landing. The lander delivered 10 NASA
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