Rubio boots South African ambassador from US: ‘persona non grata’
South African Ambassador to the U.S. Embrahim Rasool was criticized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday over his remarks about President Donald Trump.
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Columbia University in crosshairs as video of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest released
Columbia University in crosshairs as video of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest released – CBS News Watch CBS News Newly-released video shows the moment U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took legal permanent resident and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil into custody from his Columbia University apartment last weekend, while his wife, who is eight months pregnant, was
President Trump comforts mother whose son died of fentanyl poisoning: ‘Up there watching you’
President Donald Trump comforted a mother whose son died from fentanyl poisoning, telling her, “He’s up there watching you" and “he’s so proud of mom."
Trump Says Days of ‘Department of Injustice’ Are Over
The president says he would demand ‘full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that occurred.’ President Donald Trump gave a wide-ranging speech at the Department of Justice on March 14, denouncing what he described as “weaponization” by the previous administration and vowing to beef up the nation’s law enforcement. “Our predecessors turned this
Columbia Activist Who Endorsed Hamas’s ‘Anticolonial Liberation Movement’ Self-Deports After Trump Admin Pulls Visa
A Columbia University doctoral student who expressed support for the “anticolonial liberation movement in Palestine” used the Trump administration’s revamped “CBP Home” app to self-deport to Canada about a week after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked her student visa, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian national and doctoral candidate
Senate passes GOP measure to avert shutdown as Democrats fume over choice
Washington — The Senate passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline Friday, following days of consternation from Senate Democrats over an uncomfortable choice — to allow the GOP bill to pass or let the government shut down. The Senate passed the bill in a 54 to 46
Shutdown averted after Schumer caves and backs Trump spending bill
The Senate approved the House-passed stopgap bill on Friday despite significant Democratic division.