Zelenskyy said he was ready to meet Putin in Turkey on Thursday after Trump told him to immediately accept the Kremlin leader’s proposal of direct talks. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States’ position on the Russia–Ukraine war is reaching a point where an “immediate cease-fire” can be declared between the two
CBS News Live CBS News Sacramento Live California Gov. Gavin Newsom is planning Monday to make a significant push to address homeless encampments. The governor’s office is framing the address as a “statewide funding announcement” regarding California’s mental health and homelessness issues. As detailed by the governor’s office, Newsom will be releasing a model ordinance
The compromise proposal makes no changes to the share the federal government contributes to Medicaid in each state. House Republicans revealed late on May 11 their proposal for Medicaid, which seeks to balance the interests of moderates and spending hawks within the narrow GOP majority. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is making a bid to
Eva Steege may have seemed like an unlikely combattant in the pushback against mass firings by the Trump administration. The 83-year-old retired Lutheran pastor was in hospice, unable to walk, when she was asked to join a group seeking to block the administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “It took us about five
The U.S. and China have agreed to a temporary but significant easing of the tariffs imposed over the last couple months, the countries said in a joint statement shared by the White House, heralding significant success in trade negotiations that ramped up over the weekend. In the joint statement released early Monday morning, the two
Harvard under fire (again): The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has launched a new civil rights investigation into Harvard University—this time over its hiring practices, our Aaron Sibarium scoops. The commission is probing whether the school “engaged in a pattern or practice of disparate treatment” in faculty hiring that discriminated against white, Asian, male, or straight
In its latest legal challenge, the Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed California’s cash assistance program for immigrants. It is demanding a slew of records from Los Angeles County to determine if individuals in the United States illegally received payments stemming from the Social Security Administration, dating back to 2021. The legal action centers on