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Trump amends CBS '60 Minutes' lawsuit and demands $20 billion
President Donald Trump has amended his lawsuit against CBS, demanding $20 billion and again claiming the network deceptively edited a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in an effort to prop up her election chances.
In the new court filing late Friday, Trump demanded twice the amount in damages than he originally ...Read more

Trump's approval ratings: What the latest polls show
BALTIMORE — Nearly three weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump appears to be retaining the support that led to his return to power.
FiveThirtyEight polling averages show Trump, who never earned positive marks during his first term or subsequent presidential campaigns, has considerably narrowed the gap in his favorability rating ...Read more

'It's a circus': Trump unleashes chaos at key US science agency
WASHINGTON — The email arrived in U.S. government workers’ inboxes just after 1 a.m. East Coast time on Friday, with the subject line “IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION - URGENT ACTION.”
The message went to some staff members at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, the scientific agency best known for providing daily ...Read more

Migrants welcomed under Biden fearful as Trump targets legal immigration programs
WASHINGTON — Maria Eugenia Torres Ramirez never sought to reside in the United States illegally. A political activist from Venezuela who fiercely opposes President Nicolas Maduro, she approached border agents in Del Rio, Texas, in 2021 and asked for asylum, saying she feared for her life.
Torres Ramirez, 37, fled Venezuela with her two young...Read more

Can Trump persuade North Korea to return to the negotiating table?
During a recent interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, President Donald Trump stated that he would reach out to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again in his second term to mitigate security threats.
This was not the first time Trump expressed his intention to reopen diplomacy with North Korea since taking office. On his first day in office,...Read more

Trump's Gaza plan echoes decades-old Israeli calls to expel Palestianians
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza, was received warmly by President Donald Trump at the White House.
Netanyahu, a longtime backer of Trump, beamed with satisfaction as the two men met with reporters and ...Read more

Trump sued by Democrat states over Musk access to Treasury data
NEW YORK — A group of 19 mostly Democrat-led states sued President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for granting Elon Musk unprecedented access to personal data on millions of Americans.
Trump and Bessent violated federal law by allowing Musk’s newly established efficiency team access to Treasury Department information, ...Read more

Trump revokes Biden's access to intelligence reports, saying the same was done to him 4 years ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is revoking former President Joe Biden’s access to intelligence briefings.
Trump announced the move Friday shortly after arriving at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, from the White House. He said he was “immediately revoking” Biden’s security clearances and halt the reports known as the ...Read more

Rubio makes nice on first trip abroad but keeps an eye on Trump
WASHINGTON — In his first overseas stop as the top U.S. diplomat, Marco Rubio went to Panama and secured an agreement for the U.S. Navy to travel freely through the Panama Canal. It was a win sure to please President Donald Trump, whose threats to take back the waterway had dominated the first weeks of his second term.
Then came a State ...Read more

California governor signs 2 'Trump-proofing' bills a day after returning from DC trip
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to try to have it both ways.
On Friday, a day removed from his trip to Washington where he made a show of deference to President Donald Trump, Newsom signed into law two bills meant to curtail the Trump administration’s agenda from taking hold in California.
Newsom traveled to the...Read more

California AG Rob Bonta says Trump is 'spitting in the face of our democracy' as federal funds remain frozen
California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined a coalition of more than 20 states Friday in asking a federal court to once again intercede and force the Trump administration to unfreeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds appropriated by Congress to the states.
In two separate legal motions, Bonta and 22 other state attorneys general...Read more

President Trump says he will remove chairman of Kennedy Center and give himself the role
BALTIMORE — President Donald Trump on Friday announced his plans to remove several board members of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, including Baltimore Orioles owner David Rubenstein as chairman.
In his post on Truth Social, Trump announced that he would install himself as Rubenstein’s successor.
“At my ...Read more

Jessica Alba and Cash Warren file for divorce after 17 years, no prenup
Jessica Alba filed for divorce from Cash Warren on Friday, nearly a month to the day since news of their split first broke.
The Honest Company co-founder, 43, and 46-year-old producer, who have been married for nearly 17 years, did not have a prenup, insiders told TMZ.
The outlet reports that Alba filed just before Warren on Friday, but their ...Read more

Federal judge blocks Minnesota law to limit donations from foreign corporations
A federal judge has permanently blocked the implementation of a Minnesota campaign finance law that aimed to dramatically limit political contributions from corporations with foreign ownership.
U.S. District Court Judge Eric Tostrud issued the order Friday afternoon after granting a preliminary injunction late last year before the law’s Jan. ...Read more

The reality of Black men’s love lives and marriages is very different than what’s usually shown on TV – I spent years actually talking to them
Finding and keeping a good Black man in a relationship has become a cottage industry. From celebrities and reality TV stars to social media influencers, for better or worse, there is no shortage of relationship advice to people seeking to figure out Black men.
And while much of this content is understood to be for entertainment ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman, who has supported some Trump nominees, says he's a 'no' vote on RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, who has faced protests outside his offices this week, says he won’t vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead Health and Human Services and the country’s national intelligence agencies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard.
“I have met with most of the Cabinet nominees and have...Read more

Trump vows to bring back plastic straws
President Donald Trump has reached his final — paper — straw.
In a social media post shared on his platform, Truth Social, Trump on Friday declared his intentions to rollback former President Joe Biden’s efforts to phase out plastic straw use across the federal government.
“I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ...Read more

Trump says he will announce reciprocal tariffs next week
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he plans to unveil reciprocal tariffs next week in a major escalation of his trade war with U.S. economic partners.
Trump made the announcement during a meeting with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday and said the action would affect “everyone,” without specifying exactly ...Read more

Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it
Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the rhetoric of cost-cutting and regulatory streamlining lies a troubling scenario.
Musk has been appointed what is called a “special ...Read more

Trump says he will announce reciprocal tariffs next week
President Donald Trump said he plans to unveil reciprocal tariffs next week in a major escalation of his trade war with U.S. economic partners.
Trump made the announcement during a meeting with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday and said the action would affect “everyone,” without specifying exactly what measures he ...Read more
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