The Department of Homeland Security has authorized law enforcement agents from across the federal government to partake in “investigating, determining the location of, and apprehending” undocumented migrants, issuing a directive aimed at operationalizing the president’s signature campaign promise on immigration, according to a memo obtained by CBS News. The directive allows federal law enforcement agents
The Trump administration is expected to tap Susan Coller Monarez, the deputy director of a federal health research agency, to serve as the acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, multiple health officials tell CBS News. Picking Monarez would close an unprecedented leadership gap atop the CDC, which is tasked with tracking
President Trump signed 46 executive actions in the hours after his inauguration on Jan. 20 with many of them multi-pronged mixes of more than 200 executive orders, directives, and policy guidance designed to prompt a “whole-of-government” sea change in administration. At least eight relate directly to energy policy with four eliminating more than 200 rules,
Ivy League school dropped scores of suspensions targeting anti-Israel student radicals Columbia interim president Katrina Armstrong (columbia.edu) Columbia University announced Thursday that it had identified and suspended one of the pro-Hamas students who stormed an Israeli history class and targeted Jewish students with anti-Semitic flyers two days prior. Whether that suspension sticks could provide early
New Hegseth allegations emerge New Hegseth allegations emerge 01:38 Washington — Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Defense Department, told Sen. Elizabeth Warren that he paid $50,000 to a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2017, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News. Hegseth has repeatedly denied
California Community Foundation, which houses a wildfire recovery campaign, sent $11.6 million to groups in Soros-backed Tides network since 2018 Rep. Adam Schiff / Getty Images A major charity that Senator Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) and the popular left-wing podcast Pod Save America are promoting for Los Angeles wildfire relief has for years poured millions
The Trump administration has pulled the security detail from former Trump CIA director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as well as former Trump special envoy on Iran Brian Hook. CBS has learned that Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed off on the removal of the Diplomatic Security detail, according to a source familiar.