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U.S. Institute of Peace staff receive termination notices, sources say

Staff members at the U.S. Institute of Peace were informed they were terminated effective immediately on Friday, five sources familiar with the situation told CBS News.  It was not immediately clear if the terminations affect the entire organization but sources said the terminations impact the vast majority of the nonprofit, including multiple departments at the

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Trump’s changes to the Social Security Administration have many seniors alarmed

North Liberty, Iowa — At the weekly senior lunch social in North Liberty, Iowa, chicken was on the menu, but Social Security was top of mind. Iowa, like the U.S., is aging. One in four people in the state is age 60 and older, according to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. Uncertainty in

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Trump executive order targets Jenner & Block, law firm in Chicago and D.C., attorney Andrew Weissman

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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Israeli officials furious that Signal group chat exposed intelligence, sources say

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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UAW’s Shawn Fain slams Trump executive order targeting federal unions

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 attorney general sues Elon Musk to block $1 million payment offers

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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Federal judge blocks mass firings of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau workers

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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