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Appeals court allows all White House ballroom construction to resume

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Construction of a ballroom and presidential bunker at the White House will continue for now, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted an administrative stay of an order earlier this week that blocked most above-ground construction.  The next hearing in the case is set for June 5, according to the court’s briefing

Judge blocks Nexstar’s acquisition of Tegna until antitrust suit resolved

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A federal judge has blocked a $6.2 billion merger of local television giants Nexstar Media Group and rival Tegna until an antitrust lawsuit is resolved. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Troy L. Nunley in Sacramento, California, made the ruling late Friday afternoon, finding that eight attorneys general and DirecTV were likely to prevail in their

U.S. delegation visited Cuba last week as Trump heaped pressure on island

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A delegation of senior State Department representatives traveled to Cuba via a U.S. government plane last week, a department official and two U.S. officials told CBS News, a diplomatic opening as the island nation struggles with months of intense pressure from the Trump administration. While in Cuba, one U.S. diplomat met with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez

How the dispute between Trump and Pope Leo escalated

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President Trump has been lobbing insults at Pope Leo XIV in response to his criticisms of the war in Iran and appeals for peace, marking an unusually pronounced rupture between the leaders of the world’s most powerful country and the world’s largest Christian denomination.  But Leo criticized the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts both before

CBS News gets exclusive look at the Strait of Hormuz

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CBS News gets exclusive look at the Strait of Hormuz – CBS News Watch CBS News Imtiaz Tyab is the first American network news correspondent to get a look inside the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran war. link.lazyload { position: absolute; } .content__meta-wrapper::before { width: 100%; } .device–type-mobile .content__meta-wrapper::before { width: calc(100vw – 40px);