Missouri legislature advances new congressional maps amid Trump redistricting push

Missouri Republicans on Tuesday advanced a proposed congressional map, part of a mid-decade redistricting push started by President Trump to hold onto – and possibly expand — the GOP’s razor-thin majority in the U.S. House.   The proposed maps aim to make Missouri’s congressional delegation seven Republicans and one Democrat, a change from its current delegation

Border official who oversaw L.A. immigration raids arrives in Chicago

The U.S. Border Patrol official who led controversial immigration enforcement raids in southern California this summer has arrived in Chicago, a new target of the Trump administration’s escalating crackdown on illegal immigration, two people familiar with the matter told CBS News. The official, Gregory Bovino, is in the Chicago area as federal officials vow to

NIH whistleblower details clash over vaccines with Trump officials

Washington — A former top National Institutes of Health leader who says she was removed from her position after a dispute with Trump administration officials detailed the internal clashes at the elite medical research agency Monday, and warned of an agenda that poses “a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety.”  Dr. Jeanne

NIH whistleblower says she was ousted after clashing with Trump officials on vaccines

The upheaval sparked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism has now spread beyond the CDC to the agency that funds vaccine research. Dr. Jeanne Marazzo, former acting director for the National Institutes of Health, says she was ousted after speaking up about the importance of childhood flu vaccines. Original CBS News Link</a

Supreme Court allows sweeping immigration stops in Los Angeles area

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Trump’s administration to resume sweeping immigration enforcement stops in the Los Angeles area for now as part of the president’s campaign to carry out mass deportations of people in the U.S. unlawfully. The high court agreed to freeze a district court’s temporary restraining