The University of Pennsylvania must comply with a subpoena from the Trump administration seeking information related to Jewish employees, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The subpoena comes as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, investigates a “pattern or … Read more
The Trump administration on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said environmentalists’ lawsuits threatened to hobble domestic energy supplies as the U.S. wages war against Iran. Critics said the move by the government’s Endangered Species Committee could doom a rare … Read more
Vermont’s effort to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage caused by climate change was tested Monday in a federal courtroom, where the state argued that two lawsuits challenging its groundbreaking 2024 law should be thrown out. Vermont became the first state to enact a climate superfund law, modeled on the federal superfund law that … Read more
Former Mossad official says Iran was underestimated by Trump administration – CBS News Watch CBS News As the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen join the conflict with Israel, a former Mossad official tells Holly Williams that the Iranians were underestimated. Source link
The Trump administration is scaling back its crackdown on asylum cases in the U.S. after halting operations last November, sources say. CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more. Source link
Millions of people protested at “No Kings” rallies across the U.S. and Europe over the weekend against the Trump administration’s policies and the war in Iran. Organizers estimate at least 8 million participated in more than 3,300 protests worldwide. Source link
Over 40 Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate signed a letter to top administration regulators and ethics officials on Monday asking for governmentwide training on insider trading in prediction markets. The letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Office of Government Ethics comes after weeks of increasing scrutiny regarding potential insider trading … Read more
The Trump administration is scaling back a crackdown on asylum that brought hundreds of thousands of immigration applications to a halt, two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News. In late November, after the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., allegedly at the hands of an Afghan man who had been … Read more
President Trump signed an executive action on Friday that promises to pay TSA workers immediately as Congress remains at odds over Department of Homeland Security funds and the partial shutdown drags on. New DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said TSA officers can expect paychecks as early as Monday. Source link
More than a week after a federal judge blocked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s overhaul of both the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule and a key vaccine advisory committee, the Justice Department has yet to appeal the decision — and ultimately may not. The Justice Department has 60 days to appeal the … Read more