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3/28: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News Greenland foreign minister says “we want respect” as Trump eyes territory; AP photographer who took iconic Trump photo now barred from many White House events View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
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Update: A judge in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order on Friday, March 28, blocking the Trump administration’s executive order against the law firm Jenner & Block. President Trump issued an executive order Tuesday targeting Chicago law firm Jenner & Block. The firm also has an office in Washington, D.C. Jenner & Block has
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Washington — Israeli officials are furious over the Signal chat leak involving senior Trump administration officials because it included sensitive intelligence Israel provided to the U.S. from a human intelligence source in Yemen, CBS News has learned. While the Signal chat messages published by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic this week may not have compromised
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Shawn Fain, the president of the United Automobile Workers, assailed a new executive order signed this week by President Trump as an attack on federal workers. He compared it to the 1981 air traffic controller strike, when President Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers. “This is 100 times worse than PATCO ever dreamed
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Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general asked a court on Friday to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend, just two days before the state’s hotly contested Supreme Court race was to be decided. Attorney General Josh Kaul filed the lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court to stop Musk from making
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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a preliminary injunction Friday that blocks the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau. “The court cannot look away or the CFPB will be dissolved and dismantled completely in approximately thirty days, well before this lawsuit has come to its conclusion,” she wrote in a 112-page
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Adapt or Die – CBS News Watch CBS News The climate cycles that have driven mass extinctions, are shortening and becoming more severe. The species that can adapt to environmental changes survive, while others simply die off. CBS Reports travels to the Galapagos Islands, a living laboratory in the crosshairs of climate change, to see
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Bangkok — Two violent earthquakes rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, killing at least 144 people in Myanmar, according to the country’s military rulers. At least 10 people died in Thailand‘s capital Bangkok, where a high-rise building that was under construction collapsed, leaving dozens more missing under the rubble. A state of emergency was declared in
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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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