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President Trump on Monday announced that he is appointing longtime ally Alina Habba to be New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor. She has been a personal attorney to Mr. Trump for years, known for her pugnacious defense of him against the media and in courtrooms. Mr. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, his social media
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with whether to leave in place Louisiana’s congressional map that was used in the 2024 elections and includes two majority-Black districts. The dispute is the latest involving claims of racial gerrymandering and the drawing of political districts to land before the high court following the recrafting of voting
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Washington — Top Trump officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance allegedly discussed the details of a highly sensitive operation to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen in a group chat that inadvertently included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Goldberg wrote on Monday. As a Cabinet meeting unfolded
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Washington — A number of lawmakers expressed outrage Monday after the editor of The Atlantic reported that he was accidentally included in a group chat involving top Trump administration officials about the United States’ highly sensitive war plans in Yemen. Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle criticized the security breach, though Democrats took
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President Trump has decided to pick Susan Monarez to be the new nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making permanent the acting role she has served at the public health agency in recent months. Monarez would be named in place of Dr. David Weldon, a former Florida congressman whose nomination was
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CBS News Live CBS News Miami Live A man drove his car into protesters outside a Tesla dealership in Palm Beach County, Florida, but did not injure any of those who had gathered to demonstrate against billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump over the weekend, according to law enforcement. The planned protest was one
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A former federal prosecutor was found dead Saturday morning at a home in Alexandria, Virginia, authorities said. Officers with the Alexandria Police Department were dispatched to the home at 9:18 a.m. Eastern Time on a report of an unresponsive woman. They arrived to find 43-year-old Jessica Aber, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of
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Face the Nation: Himes, Gottlieb, MacFarlane, Montoya-Galvez – CBS News Watch CBS News Missed the second half of the show? The latest on…Rep. Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz “distorted the law” in the deportations under the Alien
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The Trump administration will be revoking the legal status of hundreds of thousands of Latin American and Haitian migrants welcomed into the U.S. under a Biden-era sponsorship process, urging them to self-deport or face arrest and removal by deportation agents. The termination of their work permits and deportation protections under an immigration authority known as
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On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: National Security Adviser Mike Waltz Rep. Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky Rep. Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissoner CBS News correspondents Camilo Montoya-Galvez and Scott MacFarlane Click here to browse full transcripts from 2025 of “Face the
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