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Reporter’s Notebook: Economic turbulence – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump has promised a little light turbulence. “A little bit of an adjustment period,” is what he called it in the joint address to Congress. Consumers are feeling something different. John Dickerson explains. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser
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Washington — President Trump’s dismantling of the government-funded Voice of America will pave the way for America’s adversaries to have greater influence abroad, predicted the agency’s director Michael Abramowitz. After Mr. Trump signed an executive order that seeks to make sweeping cuts at the nation’s largest international broadcaster, about 1,300 employees, including Abramowitz, learned over
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Due process concerns for immigrants deported for alleged gang membership – CBS News Watch CBS News More than 130 Venezuelan migrants were expelled from the U.S. under the 227-year-old “Alien Enemies Act.” A federal judge tried to block it, but the White House says the planes carrying them had already taken off for El Salvador.
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A federal judge admonished the Justice Department Monday for disobeying his order to turn around two planes en route to El Salvador that were carrying alleged Tren de Aragua gang members. He also demanded explanations about removal flights ordered since President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act Saturday. During a hearing on the Trump administration’s compliance
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Voice of America director says Trump’s dismantling of agency is “self-inflicted blow” – CBS News Watch CBS News Voice of America, the government-funded news agency launched during World War II to counter Nazi propaganda, stopped broadcasting over the weekend after its employees were put on leave or terminated by the Trump administration. Nancy Cordes spoke
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President Donald Trump is expected to visit the Kennedy Center for a board meeting on Monday, two sources familiar with the planning tell CBS News Organizers have arranged for the meeting to be held onstage at the venue’s opera house. “‘Riverdance’ loaded out tonight, so they’re onstage tomorrow,” one source told CBS News. There are
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Washington — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that Mahmoud Khalil, an activist who is being detained by federal immigration authorities, is “going to leave — and so are others.” “We’re going to keep doing it,” Rubio said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.” Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old who was born in Syria
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Washington — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that U.S. airstrikes in Yemen on the Iran-backed Houthi rebels are targeting the group’s ability to strike global shipping and attack the U.S. military, and are “doing the world a favor.” “We’re doing the entire world a favor by getting rid of these guys and their
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3/16: Face the Nation – CBS News Watch CBS News This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” as the U.S. launches airstrikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, Margaret Brennan speaks to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Plus, President Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, joins. View CBS News In Be
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The Trump administration and Israel approached the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and have also been interested in Syria, as potential places to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, according to three sources familiar with the effort. The idea of Palestinian resettlement in another country is one of several options the Trump team is chewing over as
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