FEMA rescinds strategic plan less than 2 weeks before hurricane season

Less than two weeks until the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator David Richardson has rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, a comprehensive policy document that outlines the disaster relief agency’s priorities.  In a short memo sent to FEMA employees on Wednesday and obtained by CBS News, Richardson wrote,

Americans to See Net Gains Under GOP Budget Bill but Deficit Would Rise by $3.8 Trillion: CBO

CBO says the GOP-led budget reconciliation bill would boost resources for U.S. households—at the cost of widening deficits and uneven impacts. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—the GOP-backed reconciliation package—would lead to a net increase in resources to households nationwide over the next decade, but at the cost

Lawmakers Call for Federal Probes Into Chinese EV Charging Startup

Autel Energy products have the ‘capacity to access and collect significant sensitive consumer data,’ the lawmakers say. Two Republican lawmakers are calling on the Pentagon and the Commerce Department to investigate a Chinese electric vehicle (EV) charging startup, citing national security concerns over the company’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In a letter

ICE denied request for Mahmoud Khalil to hold his baby, wife and ACLU say

ICE officials and a prison contractor have refused to grant a contact visit between Mahmoud Khalil and his family, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, denying him the chance to hold his newborn son. The boy was born last month while Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist, remained in ICE custody