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Harvard files complaint against Trump action blocking foreign students

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Harvard University is challenging President Trump’s move to block foreign students from coming to the United States to attend the Ivy League school, calling it illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of White House demands. In an amended complaint filed Thursday, Harvard called the president’s action an end-run around a previous court order. Last month, a

“Narco subs” trafficking cocaine targeted in latest U.S. sanction

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Six accused drug traffickers allegedly using boats and “narco subs” to traffic cocaine were hit with U.S. sanctions, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Thursday. Four Guyanese nationals — Paul Daby Jr., Randolph Duncan, Mark Cromwell, Himnauth Sawh — and two Colombians — Yeison Andres Sanchez Vallejo and Manuel Salazar

Margaret Atwood’s advice to voters

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Margaret Atwood’s advice to voters – CBS News Watch CBS News Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” contains powerful warnings about the misuse of political power. In this web exclusive she tells correspondent Martha Teichner that voters should realize, in politics, “We live in the world of least worst,” and that abstaining from the

Trump threatens to cut off Musk’s subsidies. That could cost Tesla and SpaceX billions.

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President Trump on Thursday suggested cutting off federal subsidies and contracts to Elon Musk’s companies, escalating a feud between the president and the world’s richest person.  “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social.  Following