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Trump enacts tariffs on America’s largest trading partners, China, Mexico and Canada – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump, as he threatened, has enacted tariffs of 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada, along with an additional 10% tariff on goods from China. Energy imports from Canada, however, will only be hit with a
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A decision by the acting leadership at the U.S. Justice Department to delete its public webpages and case summaries of the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol prosecution has triggered a legal challenge from a watchdog group and blowback from a federal judge who oversaw some of the cases. The controversial decision has also drawn
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One of three soldiers aboard a Black Hawk helicopter that was involved in the deadly midair collision with an American Airlines flight Wednesday near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., was identified Saturday by the Army as 28-year-old Capt. Rebecca Lobach. The Army said Lobach had served as an aviation officer in the Army since
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National Harbor, Maryland – Ken Martin, the chair of Minnesota’s arm of the Democratic party, will become the new leader of the Democratic National Committee after winning during the first round of voting as the party attempts to rebound from a challenging election cycle. In his acceptance speech, Martin looked to unify the party after
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The U.S. military conducted coordinated airstrikes against ISIS operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Trump’s second term. Mr. Trump said Saturday in a post on Truth Social that he ordered “precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia.”
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New York doctor charged with prescribing abortion pill in Louisiana New York doctor charged with prescribing abortion pill in Louisiana 00:32 BATON ROUGE, La. — A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest
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The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the legal status of many of the migrants who were allowed to come to the U.S. legally from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela under former President Joe Biden, according to internal government documents reviewed by CBS News. The proposal by the Department of Homeland Security, spelled out in
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The Trump administration plans to scrub some federal government websites in order to remove content contrary to the president’s thinking, administration officials told CBS News, and word spread quickly throughout Washington about actions that might be taken to alter the websites. There was confusion about whether sites would be entirely shut down, but federal department
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A helicopter was forced to take evasive action to avoid colliding with a plane that was landing at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., during a July 2018 incident that mirrored the deadly midair collision that occurred Wednesday night. The incident, first reported by CBS News, occurred when a trio of helicopters were traveling along
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The Pentagon’s intelligence arm has issued a memo pausing any activities related to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth, Black History Month, LBGTQ+ Pride Month and Holocaust Remembrance Day, among other “special observances,” according to a defense official who confirmed the authenticity of the memo. The memo listed 11 such observances that employees are no
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