Washington — While President Trump billed the federal law enforcement surge in the nation’s capital as an effort to crack down on violent crime, internal government data obtained by CBS News shows nearly 40% of over 3,500 arrests made since the operation began in early August were strictly immigration-related. The federal government statistics indicate that,
Pessimism about the U.S. economy and its direction continues this month — negative ratings have persisted for years — along with net-negative ratings for the U.S. job market, specifically. And in a year that has seen plenty of announcements about AI innovations and implications, there is also plenty of public suspicion that the job market may
President Trump’s suggestion last week that combination childhood vaccines, including the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, shot, should be separated marks a sharp break from decades of immunization practice in the United States. “I was shocked,” said Dr. William Moss, executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
The Justice Department has fired two of the highest-level prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News, just days after President Trump ousted the U.S. Attorney there — and picked a replacement who charged former FBI Director James Comey. The sources said Maya Song, a longtime high-ranking
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blamed Democrats for shutting down the government on Thursday morning, saying on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that “this is a choice that Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have made, and if they want to shut the government down, then there are ramifications.” Asked whether President Trump and OMB Director Russ Vought are looking
Washington — The fight over funding the government is likely to be a costly one. Each week of the ongoing government shutdown could cost the economy $7 billion and reduce GDP growth by 0.1 percentage points, according to an estimate published by EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco. That cost is a function of reduced pay
House Speaker Mike Johnson told “CBS Mornings” on Thursday that Republicans and Democrats are not currently engaged in negotiations to end the government shutdown. “There’s no negotiation right now because the Democrats have dug in,” he told “CBS Mornings.” Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said that his GOP colleagues are urging their Democratic counterparts to approve