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Washington — President Trump will hold off on imposing steep tariffs on Colombia after the country’s government agreed to accept deported migrants being returned on military planes, the White House said Sunday night. Mr. Trump earlier on Sunday vowed swift and punishing retaliation after the Colombian government over the weekend blocked the arrival of deportation
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A group of Senate Democrats will attempt on Monday to raise the political pressure on Republicans to condemn President Trump’s pardon of violent Capitol insurrectionists. CBS News has learned senior Democrats will seek to pass a resolution by unanimous consent that formally denounces the pardons of the rioters who were convicted of assaulting and
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1/26: Face the Nation – CBS News Watch CBS News This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Vice President JD Vance gives his first interview since taking office. Plus, Republican Rep. Mike Turner and Democratic Rep. Jason Crow join. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking
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Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok‘s parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok’s U.S. business, according to a person familiar with the matter. The proposal, submitted last week, is a revision of a prior plan the artificial
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Vice President JD Vance blasted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemnation of the Trump administration’s recent actions on immigration, saying the church might be more concerned with “their bottom line” than humanitarian causes. On “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” the Vice President, in his first interview since being sworn in on Jan. 20,
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The Trump administration purged at least a dozen federal inspectors general overnight Friday, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News. It is an unprecedented move that will likely result in legal challenges. Speaking to reporters abroad Air Force One on his way to Florida, President Trump on Saturday described the firings as “standard” and a “very
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The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday by a 59-34 vote, putting the former South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and President Donald Trump’s plans to clamp down on illegal immigration. Republicans kept the Senate working Saturday to install the latest member of Trump’s national
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Trump fires more than a dozen inspectors general, including those he personally appointed – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump’s firing of inspectors general serving as government watchdogs at multiple agencies has sparked bipartisan backlash. The president didn’t give Congress a 30-day heads up or a detailed explanation about the removals, as he’s required
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Washington — The Trump administration has directed refugee resettlement groups to stop using some federal funds in light of the president’s suspension of American foreign aid, according to a U.S. State Department memo obtained by CBS News. While refugee resettlement groups are still scrambling to interpret the scope of the funding freeze, advocates believe the
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Among the flurry of executive orders since his Jan. 20 inauguration, President Donald Trump has taken aim at rooting out diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs within the federal government. But his efforts go beyond DEI, with one recent order rescinding a Civil Rights-era rule that has helped protect millions of workers from discrimination. Mr.
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