Trump makes rare visit to Justice Department headquarters – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump visited the headquarters of the Justice Department Friday, where he addressed employees in a campaign-style speech. The address comes amid a purge that’s accelerated inside the Justice Department, in which prosecutors who handled Jan. 6 cases and Trump investigations
Columbia University in crosshairs as video of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest released – CBS News Watch CBS News Newly-released video shows the moment U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took legal permanent resident and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil into custody from his Columbia University apartment last weekend, while his wife, who is eight months pregnant, was
The president says he would demand ‘full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that occurred.’ President Donald Trump gave a wide-ranging speech at the Department of Justice on March 14, denouncing what he described as “weaponization” by the previous administration and vowing to beef up the nation’s law enforcement. “Our predecessors turned this
A Columbia University doctoral student who expressed support for the “anticolonial liberation movement in Palestine” used the Trump administration’s revamped “CBP Home” app to self-deport to Canada about a week after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked her student visa, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian national and doctoral candidate
Washington — The Senate passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline Friday, following days of consternation from Senate Democrats over an uncomfortable choice — to allow the GOP bill to pass or let the government shut down. The Senate passed the bill in a 54 to 46
The two discussed the redevelopment of Penn Station, congestion pricing, tariffs, and energy policy, according to the governor’s office. President Donald Trump and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday held a productive discussion in the Oval Office on various topics, according to Hochul’s office. “Governor Hochul and President Trump covered a broad range of
The Elon Musk-led advisory body gives update on the federal government’s cost-cutting progress. The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said that over two days this week, federal agencies canceled 239 “wasteful spending” contracts that saved more than $400 million. “Over the last two days, agencies terminated 239 wasteful contracts with a total ceiling