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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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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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Trump backs Rubio on Russia-Ukraine comments Trump says “Marco is right” after Rubio signals frustration on Russia-Ukraine talks 17:05 Members of the press were removed from the Oval Office on Friday, after a young girl collapsed during Dr. Mehmet Oz’s swearing-in ceremony as President Trump’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator. “A minor family
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The IRS is considering whether to rescind Harvard University‘s tax-exempt status, two sources familiar with the situation said. The request to look into the possibility was made by officials at the Treasury Department this week. Acting chief counsel Andrew De Mello, who has been supportive of DOGE and was appointed to his role in March,
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President Trump took aim at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday, writing in a social media post that Powell should be cutting interest rates and adding that his “termination cannot come fast enough.” Mr. Trump’s comments on his social media app, Truth Social, come after Powell delivered a speech on Wednesday that warned of
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is meeting at the White House on Thursday with President Trump, in what her aides have called a high-stakes “commercial peace mission.” European leaders are hoping Italy’s right-wing premier can position herself as a bridge between the Trump administration and the European Union, which Mr. Trump and his top aides have
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it will hear oral arguments next month over whether the Trump administration can partially enforce an executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship while proceedings in a challenge to the directive move forward. The court said in an unsigned order that arguments on the Justice
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After nearly 11 hours of debate, the Texas House approved early Thursday a controversial bill that would provide eligible families with public funds to help pay for private school tuition. The school choice bill was passed in an 85-63 vote – two were absent. The measure will provide taxpayer-funded education savings accounts, also known as
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