The action targets the officials for their role in ‘coercing, arresting, detaining, or imprisoning’ dissidents in Hong Kong and abroad. WASHINGTON—The United States on March 31 sanctioned six Beijing and Hong Kong officials for abuses in the China-ruled city and efforts of transnational repression on U.S. soil, the first such step that the new Trump
The new Investment Accelerator will help ‘cut through red tape’ and allow businesses to quickly use capital and create jobs, according to the White House. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday creating the United States Investment Accelerator, a new office within the Commerce Department aimed at streamlining the implementation of the CHIPS Act
A federal judge in California on Monday agreed to delay the Trump administration’s move to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program that currently shields roughly 350,000 Venezuelan migrants from deportation. Under a decision announced by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in February, these migrants were slated to lose their government-issued work permits and
Washington — Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida withdrew her membership from the conservative House Freedom Caucus on Monday amid a divide over whether the lower chamber should allow new parents in Congress to vote remotely around the birth of their child. “With a heavy heart, I am resigning from the Freedom Caucus,” she
At least two-thirds of the staff at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, are expected to be laid off as part of a restructuring ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., multiple federal health officials tell CBS News. Around 873 staff are expected to be cut from
‘All combat roles will only have sex-neutral standards. Common sense,’ the defense secretary says. The Defense Department on Monday revealed that it would be imposing “sex-neutral” standards for military combat roles. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the changes to its physical fitness requirements in an effort to “fix” the standards that he said were “lowered”
Washington — President Trump suggested in an interview this week this week that he’s looking at ways to run again for president, though the Constitution limits any person to being elected to the office twice. The president told NBC News in an interview Sunday that he’s “not joking” about seeking another term in office, after