CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live CHICAGO (CBS) — President Trump will issue a pardon to former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Monday, a White House official confirmed to CBS News. The development was first reported by Axios. Blagojevich, who was originally sentenced to 14 years in prison on corruption charges for attempting to sell Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate
A coalition of attorneys general from 22 states announced Monday they are suing the Trump administration to stop steep cuts to how medical research grants are funded by the National Institutes of Health. “We will not allow the Trump Administration to unlawfully undermine our economy, hamstring our competitiveness, or play politics with our public health,”
Washington — A federal judge in Rhode Island said Monday that the Trump administration has not complied with an earlier order that blocked its freeze on federal assistance and ordered agencies to immediately restore any paused or withheld dollars during continuing legal proceedings. The move from U.S. District Judge John McConnell comes in a case
President Trump said Saturday that Palestinians won’t have the right to return to Gaza, and “I would own this,” expanding on his statements last week that the U.S. would “take over” and “own” the Gaza Strip, and that Palestinians should not return. The president made the comment during an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier
Washington — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer outlined Democrats’ strategy to push back against the Trump administration on Monday, detailing efforts to combat what he called a “coordinated assault” by President Trump and his administration that “is not what most Americans and our constituents voted for in November.” “Senate Democrats have a responsibility to fight
President Trump’s firing of a member at the National Labor Relations Board leaves the federal agency unable to perform its duties protecting the rights of U.S. workers and monitoring union elections, according to labor experts. The agency is now down to two members, one below the minimum required to fully function, labor attorneys said, even
Washington — A union representing employees across dozens of federal agencies filed two lawsuits on Sunday against the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with one seeking to block the apparent shutdown of the agency and another aimed at stopping Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing employee records and information.