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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 Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be U.N. ambassador has been withdrawn, President Trump confirmed Thursday, with the president saying he’s asked her to remain in Congress.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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President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul U.S. elections that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and mandate that all ballots be received by Election Day across the country. The order claims the U.S. has “not adequately enforced Federal election requirements that, for example,
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President Trump’s Ukraine and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen other top administration officials — and inadvertently, one journalist — on the messaging app Signal, a CBS News analysis of open-source flight
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Washington — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe are back on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday as new text messages came to light from a group chat in which top Trump officials discussed sensitive plans to strike targets in Yemen. Shortly before the hearing began,
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The Trump administration continues to insist it didn’t defy a federal judge’s order when it failed to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is weighing whether the government defied his order blocking the deportations of alleged gang members who hadn’t been afforded due process. It’s a case
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Democrat Dan Goughnour handily won a special election in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday, keeping majority control of the state House in his party’s hands by a single seat. Goughnour beat Republican Chuck Davis in a district in the Mon Valley region southeast of Pittsburgh, winning a seat that became vacant in January with the death of
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