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Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked enforcement of a new Defense Department policy barring transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes granted a request for a preliminary injunction sought by transgender active-duty service members and transgender people who are in the process of enlisting. The judge’s order
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Washington — The Trump administration on Tuesday evening released tens of thousands of pages of government documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, weeks after President Trump ordered government agencies to make their JFK files public. The documents were uploaded by the National Archives and Records Administration, the agency responsible for
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has promoted two agents with the Internal Revenue Service who said they faced retaliation after blowing the whistle to Congress and speaking out to CBS News about political interference into their investigation of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes. IRS special agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler were assigned to Bessent’s office as
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Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement Tuesday defending federal judges who have issued decisions against the Trump administration, saying that “impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement” with a court’s decision. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning
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Washington — President Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to an “immediate ceasefire on all energy and infrastructure” in Ukraine when the two spoke Tuesday in a lengthy phone call, but Russia has not agreed to a full 30-day ceasefire like Ukraine has. Hours after the call, air raid sirens sounded and explosions
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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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