Supreme Court will allow withholding of education grants for now

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to withhold millions of dollars in federal education grants because it said they funded programs that involve diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The high court split 5-4 in granting a request from the Justice Department to pause a federal district court

Bernie Sanders warns the U.S. is now a “pseudo-democracy”

Senator Bernie Sanders, who has been drawing large crowds across the country in recent weeks attacking the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts, sat down with national correspondent Robert Costa for this Sunday’s “CBS News Sunday Morning.”  In this preview clip, Senator Sanders, a Vermont independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in

Trump’s biggest tariff was on tiny Lesotho. Here’s what to know.

Maseru, Lesotho — President Trump in March described Lesotho as a place “nobody has ever heard of,” and then this week he hit the tiny African kingdom with the highest of his “reciprocal” trade tariffs for any single nation.  Mr. Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs included a whopping 50% levy on the small, impoverished nation’s