Former heart surgeon and television host Dr. Mehmet Oz is set to face questions Friday from the Senate’s finance committee over his nomination to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Trump. After Friday’s hearing, the GOP-led finance committee will schedule a vote on whether to send Oz’s nomination to the full
A judge in Maryland has blocked for now the mass firings of probationary federal workers and ordered thousands of fired probationary workers to be reinstated, marking the second decision of its kind in a day. The order from U.S. District Judge James Bredar came late Thursday in a lawsuit filed by 19 states and the
Reporter’s notebook: Reexamining the Swiss cheese model – CBS News Watch CBS News Renowned psychology professor James Reason, who popularized what is known as the Swiss cheese model, has died. Mistakes, Reason theorized, were really a series of vulnerabilities lining up, like a single hole might in a stack of individual slices of Swiss cheese.
Trump’s fraught relationship with NATO – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte Thursday in the Oval Office. The meeting comes as the president has repeatedly scolded NATO allies for what he sees as inadequate defense spending, which has caused some European allies to fret about whether the U.S.
In Trump’s first 50 days, more than 32,000 ICE arrests – CBS News Watch CBS News More than 32,000 undocumented immigrants were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the first 50 days of President Trump’s second term, the agency said this week. Camilo Montoya-Galvez examines the White House’s mass deportation efforts. View CBS
Putin gives tepid response to ceasefire proposal – CBS News Watch CBS News Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday responded tentatively to a U.S. proposal that would institute a 30-day ceasefire in the Ukraine war. Putin said that “the idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it,” but added that “there are issues that
Veterans fired by Trump administration speak out – CBS News Watch CBS News Veterans make up about 30% of the overall federal workforce. Many veterans who were new on the job, classified as probationary workers, were fired as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of government through the Elon Musk-run Department