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Washington — Inside the kitchen at the Washington Hilton ahead of Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner are frenetic dinner preparations for about 2,600 people. “So, if it’s a three-course, you multiply that by three, we could walk away doing almost 10,000 plates in the kitchen as a whole,” Daniel Bennett, the hotel’s executive
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A federal judge says a 2-year-old Louisiana girl and U.S. citizen may have been deported to Honduras this week with her mother and 11-year-old sister without due process, according to court documents obtained by CBS News. In an order Friday, Judge Terry Doughty, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of
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The FBI on Friday arrested a Wisconsin county judge on obstruction charges, accusing her of preventing the arrest of a man by immigration authorities during a federal law enforcement operation at her courthouse. FBI Director Kash Patel said Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents away” from an immigrant who is in
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A Department of Health and Human Services official said Friday that the health department is not creating an autism registry, contradicting an announcement made days ago by the director of the National Institutes of Health describing his plans to study causes of autism. “We are not creating an autism registry. The real-world data platform will
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Small businesses are begging for relief from steep new U.S. tariffs on foreign goods, saying the higher import taxes imposed on dozens of key trading partners Senator Ed Markey, ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, said in a letter to the Small Business Administration (SBA) on Friday that smaller
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The Pentagon set up a system in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office that enabled him to check messages on the encrypted messaging app Signal while at the office, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Two of the sources said the system bypasses standard Defense Department security protocols. A computer monitor in Hegseth’s office
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Gov. Whitmer talks tariffs with Michigan auto dealers Gov. Whitmer talks tariffs with Michigan auto dealers 00:56 President Trump is set to visit Michigan next week for the first time since he won the battleground state in the 2024 election. Mr. Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed on X that he will be in the
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday that the Kremlin is “ready to reach a deal” with the U.S. on Ukraine, though he also said some elements need to be “fine tuned.” “The President of the United States believes, and I think rightly so, that we are moving in the right direction,” Lavrov said in
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The Trump administration conceded on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents did not have a warrant when they detained Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil in March, acknowledging it was a “warrantless arrest.” Khalil’s attorneys are asking an immigration judge in Louisiana, where their client has been detained by ICE for weeks, to terminate his
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Democratic Party leaders are trying to figure out their next steps as Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg’s efforts to primary Democratic incumbents alarms party officials. Internal debate among DNC leaders over the party’s neutrality policy broke out into the public Thursday when party Chair Ken Martin commented about Hogg’s plans to fund Democratic
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