Poll: Trump first 100 days seen as bringing big changes, too much tariff focus

Is 100 days enough time to evaluate this president? His supporters generally don’t think so, but others do — perhaps because most Americans think President Trump is already making major changes to how the government — and the U.S. economy — work.  Those opening days, in public opinion terms, have been marked by Mr. Trump’s

The Washington Hilton’s decades-long history with D.C. politics

Washington — Inside the kitchen at the Washington Hilton ahead of Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner are frenetic dinner preparations for about 2,600 people.   “So, if it’s a three-course, you multiply that by three, we could walk away doing almost 10,000 plates in the kitchen as a whole,” Daniel Bennett, the hotel’s executive

Judge demands answers on whether 2-year-old U.S. citizen was deported to Honduras

A federal judge says a 2-year-old Louisiana girl and U.S. citizen may have been deported to Honduras this week with her mother and 11-year-old sister without due process, according to court documents obtained by CBS News. In an order Friday, Judge Terry Doughty for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana wrote

Trump says he hasn’t asked El Salvador’s president to return Abrego Garcia

President Trump said he has not asked Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to hand over Kilmar Abrego Garcia to U.S. custody, though the U.S. has admitted deporting him to El Salvador was a mistake. In an interview published Friday Mr. Trump called Abrego Garcia’s case “another men in women’s sports thing for the Democrats.” “I haven’t

DOJ rescinds policy against seizing journalists’ records in leak cases

Washington — The Justice Department on Friday reversed a Biden administration policy that prevented federal officials from seeking journalists’ records and compelling their testimony in leak investigations.  Attorney General Pam Bondi indicated that reporters’ records could be subpoenaed for reasons broader than unauthorized disclosures of classified information, according to an internal memo obtained by CBS

Health agencies “not creating an autism registry,” official says

A Department of Health and Human Services official said Friday that the health department is not creating an autism registry, contradicting an announcement made days ago by the director of the National Institutes of Health describing his plans to study causes of autism.  “We are not creating an autism registry. The real-world data platform will