The leaders of the United States Institute for Peace regained control of their offices Wednesday, weeks after they were ejected from their positions by the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency in March. The dramatic turn of events happened in the wake of U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell’s ruling on Monday that the
Why Republican hardliners aren’t backing Trump’s budget bill – CBS News Watch CBS News The House Rules Committee is holding a marathon hearing to try and pass President Trump’s massive budget plan to the floor for a vote. A small but influential group of hardline Republicans are refusing to fully back the bill. View CBS
Trump, South African president clash over disputed White genocide claim – CBS News Watch CBS News Differences between President Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa came to a head in a tense exchange in the Oval Office, as Mr. Trump confronted him over whether White genocide is taking place in South Africa. Mr. Trump
Less than two weeks until the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator David Richardson has rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, a comprehensive policy document that outlines the disaster relief agency’s priorities. In a short memo sent to FEMA employees on Wednesday and obtained by CBS News, Richardson wrote,
Refugee admissions to the United States have all but ground to a halt — except for one group, or a “small subset,” as Secretary of State Marco Rubio called them on Tuesday: Afrikaners. They are members of the White ethnic minority that once led South Africa’s brutal, four-decade apartheid regime, which ended in 1994 with
ICE officials and a prison contractor have refused to grant a contact visit between Mahmoud Khalil and his family, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, denying him the chance to hold his newborn son. The boy was born last month while Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist, remained in ICE custody
A Georgia teen who was detained by federal deportation officers following local traffic charges that have since been dismissed was granted bond on Wednesday, paving the way for her to be released from immigration detention, her mother and attorney told CBS News. Ximena Arias Cristobal, who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was