As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to shrink the federal workforce, the General Services Administration eliminated its technology unit, CBS News learned Saturday. The GSA’s tech unit, known as the 18F office, employed a team of researchers, website designers and product managers. It’s unclear exactly how many workers were impacted. The office was
The head of a federal watchdog agency must remain in his job, a judge in Washington ruled on Saturday, saying President Trump’s bid to remove the special counsel was unlawful. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the president’s authority
President Trump’s advisers on Saturday morning were still uncertain how to salvage a mining deal with Ukraine, which had been intended as a key first step in a Trump strategy to eventually secure a ceasefire and peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv. What began as a formal meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday —
Israel’s government said early Sunday it supports a proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza through Ramadan and Passover, though Hamas has insisted on negotiating the truce’s second phase instead. The statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office came minutes after the first phase ended, and as talks have begun on
Ukrainian newspaper accuses U.S. of switching to Russia’s side in the war – CBS News Watch CBS News An editorial from one of Ukraine’s most prominent online newspapers, The Kyiv Daily, said, “America’s leadership has switched sides in the war.” On Friday, President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy got into a fiery confrontation at
Breaking down Trump-Starmer meeting, tariffs Breaking down Trump’s meeting with U.K.’s Starmer, tariffs on U.S. allies 05:44 President Trump on Saturday signed a pair of actions to increase domestic lumber production, including a directive for the Commerce Department to investigate the possible harms that lumber imports pose to national security. The president signed an executive order to
President Trump says he plans to issue “a complete PARDON of Pete Rose,” baseball’s late career hits leader who was banned from MLB and the Hall of Fame for sports betting. Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday night to say Rose, who died in September at age 83, “shouldn’t have been gambling on