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The week of turmoil affecting the Pentagon’s inner circle continued Friday, when two political appointees suspended earlier this week were terminated, multiple officials told CBS News. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, ordered an investigation into unauthorized disclosures in March. His memo said the investigation would seek “a complete record” of
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Putin calls for temporary Easter ceasefire with Ukraine – CBS News Watch CBS News Russian President Vladimir Putin is calling for a temporary Easter ceasefire with Ukraine. Despite the war’s largest prisoner swap on Saturday, officials from Kyiv say the fighting has not stopped. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser
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U.S., Iran nuclear talks show signs of progress – CBS News Watch CBS News Nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran showed signs of progress on Saturday. Both sides reported a productive second round with more discussions expected next week. Chris Livesay has the latest. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get
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“CBS Evening News” headlines for Saturday, April 19, 2025 – CBS News Watch CBS News Here’s a look at the top stories making headlines on the “CBS Weekend News” with Jericka Duncan. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn
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Paris — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. may “move on” from trying to secure a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days. Months of efforts by the White House have failed to bring an end to the fighting, despite repeated promises by President Trump before
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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen returned from his trip to El Salvador Friday after meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who was deported due to an administrative error. Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday, April 16, to check on Abrego Garcia’s health and well-being, a month after he was deported to a
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has scrapped a plan to offer help curbing measles in Texas schools after some staff working on the agency’s response to this year’s record outbreak of the virus were warned they could face layoffs, an agency employee said. CDC officials had initially weighed expanding a service they
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Just two days after being named interim IRS commissioner, Gary Shapley is out of the job, CBS News has confirmed. His roughly 48 hours heading the agency where he’s spent most of his career was marked by an internal struggle involving billionaire Elon Musk, who backed Shapley taking the job, according to two sources familiar
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Confusion over Trump’s China tariffs Confusion over Trump’s China tariff exemptions 03:32 Trump administration officials, anticipating supply chain strains due to steep tariffs on Chinese goods, have discussed forming a working group to deal with the problems with urgency if there’s no breakthrough with Beijing, multiple sources told CBS News. Nothing has been finalized, but
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The Trump administration is moving forward with a new rule to classify some career civil servants as “at-will” federal employees, a move the administration says will make it easier to fire underperforming or subversive employees. “Following my Day One Executive Order, the Office of Personnel Management will be issuing new Civil Service Regulations for career
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