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President Trump is scheduled to announce the details and implementation of his tariffs on Wednesday, a day he has named “Liberation Day,” despite warnings from economists over increased prices. What new tariffs will Trump announce today? The president hasn’t yet said what the tariff rates on foreign goods will be and whether they will be
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Susan Crawford, who was endorsed by the Democratic Party, won the closely-watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race Tuesday night in what was the most expensive judicial election in American history. What would have normally been a sleepy nonpartisan judicial race turned into an expensive battle between Crawford, a Dane County judge, and Waukesha County Judge Brad
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Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film “JFK” portrayed President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, called Tuesday for a new congressional investigation of the killing during a hearing that aired conspiracy theories about it. The freewheeling hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets,
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Washington — Republicans’ slim majority in the House grew a little larger Tuesday after GOP candidates in two Florida congressional districts won in special elections. Republican state Sen. Randy Fine defeated Democrat Josh Weil for the 6th District seat formerly held by Mike Waltz, who left to become President Trump’s national security adviser. Waltz had
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Washington — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker delivered a record-breaking marathon speech on the Senate floor, which started Monday evening and continued more than 25 hours before wrapping up Tuesday night, in a protest against the Trump administration’s policies. At 25 hours and five minutes, the speech now marks the longest on Senate record, surpassing Sen. Strom
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Nearly all employees at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an agency created by Congress to support American museums and libraries, were put on administrative leave Monday, according to a Trump administration official. An IMLS employee and a union representing them said all employees were put on leave, but an administration official said 20%
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A federal judge in California on Monday agreed to delay the Trump administration’s move to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program that currently shields roughly 350,000 Venezuelan migrants from deportation. Under a decision announced by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in February, these migrants were slated to lose their government-issued work permits and
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Washington — Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida withdrew her membership from the conservative House Freedom Caucus on Monday amid a divide over whether the lower chamber should allow new parents in Congress to vote remotely around the birth of their child. “With a heavy heart, I am resigning from the Freedom Caucus,” she
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At least two-thirds of the staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, are expected to be laid off as part of a restructuring ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., multiple federal health officials tell CBS News. Around 873 staff are expected to be cut from
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President Trump has periodically floated the idea of serving a third term in office since his first reelection campaign and seemed to double down on it Sunday during an interview with NBC News, suggesting “there are methods” to do it despite term limits set by the 12th and 22nd Amendments in the U.S. Constitution. To
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