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Washington — Israeli officials are furious over the Signal chat leak involving senior Trump administration officials because it included sensitive intelligence Israel provided to the U.S. from a human intelligence source in Yemen, CBS News has learned. While the Signal chat messages published by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic this week may not have compromised
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Shawn Fain, the president of the United Automobile Workers, assailed a new executive order signed this week by President Trump as an attack on federal workers. He compared it to the 1981 air traffic controller strike, when President Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers. “This is 100 times worse than PATCO ever dreamed
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Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general asked a court on Friday to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend, just two days before the state’s hotly contested Supreme Court race was to be decided. Attorney General Josh Kaul filed the lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court to stop Musk from making
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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a preliminary injunction Friday that blocks the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau. “The court cannot look away or the CFPB will be dissolved and dismantled completely in approximately thirty days, well before this lawsuit has come to its conclusion,” she wrote in a 112-page
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Washington — President Trump announced Friday that the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom agreed to provide more than $100 million in pro bono work for initiatives backed by his administration. The agreement makes Skadden Arps the second major firm to reach a deal with Mr. Trump amid a recent blitz of executive
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Washington — Soon after the revelation that the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic had inadvertently been added to a Signal chat with top Trump administration officials about Yemen attack plans, some of those officials began changing or deleting their Venmo accounts. At least one account remained public for a day after the Atlantic report. Venmo, an
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the United States. The tour included two crowded cell blocks, the armory and an isolation unit. Noem’s trip to the prison — where inmates
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Washington — Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be U.N. ambassador has been withdrawn, President Trump confirmed Thursday, with the president saying he’s asked her to remain in Congress. The president’s decision to pull her nomination ends two months of limbo for the New York Republican. “As we advance our America First Agenda, it is essential
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Top Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee are sounding the alarm about cuts to a little-known but rapidly expanding space office within NOAA as part of the hundreds of recent layoffs at the agency. NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce is tasked with helping to manage commercial and military satellite traffic in space
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The Trump administration plans to shrink the workforce of the Department of Health and Human Services by nearly a quarter, the officials announced Thursday, as part of a major restructuring of the department. The changes announced Thursday amount to a workforce that will be around 33% smaller than it was at the end of the Biden
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