POLITICS

Columbia President Katrina Armstrong Steps Down Amid Battle With Trump. Claire Shipman, Wife of Obama Press Sec, Will Take the Job.

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Shipman, a former ABC and CNN journalist, has close ties to Biden and Obama through husband Jay Carney Katrina Armstrong (Columbia) and Claire Shipman (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong stepped down on Friday amid the Ivy League school’s protracted battle with the Trump administration, Columbia announced in a statement. Her replacement,

Trump to Impose Pharma Levies Soon, Says Open to Deals on Tariffs

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The president says many countries are interested in making deals in response to his reciprocal tariff proposal. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated plans to soon impose tariffs on imported pharmaceutical goods and expressed openness to negotiating auto and reciprocal tariffs in exchange for favorable deals with other countries. Speaking to reporters

Israeli officials furious that Signal group chat exposed intelligence, sources say

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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

Russia Seeks to Balance Ties With US, China: Official

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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk says that Moscow would seek to balance its relationship between Washington and Beijing. The Kremlin is seeking to balance its relationship with the United States alongside its military and economic partnership with communist China, according to a senior Russian official. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk made the remarks