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Washington — President Trump announced Friday that the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom agreed to provide more than $100 million in pro bono work for initiatives backed by his administration. The agreement makes Skadden Arps the second major firm to reach a deal with Mr. Trump amid a recent blitz of executive
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Washington — Vice President JD Vance said Friday during a day trip to a U.S. base in Greenland that the Trump administration doesn’t think that “military force is ever going to be necessary” there, the same day President Trump said, “We have to have Greenland.” Vance visited the Pituffik Space Base, the northernmost U.S. military installation,
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3/27: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News Americans’ pessimism about the economy is growing, poll finds; After record losing season for White Sox, hope is on the horizon View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On
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Pabrade, Lithuania — Lithuania’s president said Friday that he hoped for “a miracle” as he visited the site of a rescue operation to recover four missing U.S. Army soldiers from their submerged vehicle. The four soldiers, assigned to the Army’s 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, went missing early Tuesday morning during a maintenance mission to recover
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CBS Reports | Rising Tide: Priced out in Miami – CBS News Watch CBS News Miami is often seen as ground zero for the impacts of climate change in the U.S., but the fallout goes well beyond flooded streets. As real estate developers head to higher ground, rising rents in low-income communities there are threatening
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CBS Reports – City Under Surveillance – CBS News Watch CBS News The Detroit Police Department is using facial recognition technology and a network of surveillance cameras to combat the city’s high crime rates. But critics say the technology has racial bias built into it and has even landed innocent people behind bars. In this
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The Open Field We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In her new memoir, “I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home” (to be published April 1 by The Open Field), Maria Shriver – the daughter of Kennedys, broadcast journalist, and former
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President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order targeting funding for programs at the Smithsonian Institution that contain what he characterizes as “divisive, race-centered ideology” in his latest broadside against a liberalism that has critiqued Western culture and values. The president said in the order that there has been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to
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The Sex Pistols, the legendary English punk band that helped the underground subculture of the genre to reach mainstream heights, is going on its first North American tour in more than 20 years. The Pistols last went on a North American tour in 2003, when they were joined by original vocalist John Lyndon (formerly Rotten). The
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More than three decades after making history aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, Dr. Mae Jemison continues to inspire the next wave of space travelers while championing science and education on Earth. Selected from among 2,000 applicants to NASA’s astronaut training program in 1987, Jemison was part of the first group of astronauts chosen after the Challenger
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