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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump had to walk up the escalator Tuesday as they arrived for the 80th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images President Trump is alleging “triple sabotage” of his speech at the U.N. General Assembly, demanding an investigation into back-to-back mishaps with an escalator, a teleprompter and a sound system — for which the U.N. is at least partially blaming the White House. “A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but…

Washington — A branch of the National Archives released a mostly unredacted version of Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s military records to Nicholas De Gregorio, an ally of Jack Ciattarelli, her GOP opponent in the New Jersey governor’s race. The disclosure potentially violates the Privacy Act of 1974 and exemptions established under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents, which were also obtained by CBS News, appear to show that the National Personnel Records Center, a wing of the National Archives and Records Administration charged with maintaining personnel records for service members and civil servants of the U.S. government, released Sherrill’s full…

Politics / September 25, 2025 The president’s dangerous misinformation about Tylenol is only the latest threat this government poses to infant and maternal mortality. Ad Policy Donald Trump Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Monday, September 22, 2025.(Francis Chung / Politico / Bloomberg via Getty Images) In August 2025, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) declared rising infant mortality in the state a public health emergency. According to the MSDH, “2024 data shows the overall infant mortality rate has increased to 9.7 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is the highest in…

Trump’s White House ballroom and Van Buren Reporter’s Notebook: Trump’s White House ballroom and Martin Van Buren 01:50 Washington — New architectural renderings obtained by CBS News reveal in more detail the White House ballroom that is currently under construction.The Trump administration announced in July that a 90,000-square-foot ballroom with a seated capacity for 650 people will be constructed in the White House’s East Wing. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the project would be paid for by private donors and the president himself, who has committed to disclosing donors’ names.The new ballroom will be significantly larger than the…

An Ohio police officer accused of shooting to death a pregnant Black mother two years ago was not trained or supervised properly, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday against the police chief and the township that employed him.The estate of Ta’Kiya Young sued Blendon Township and its police chief over her August 2023 fatal shooting in the parking lot of a grocery store in the Columbus suburbs. She had been suspected of shoplifting bottles of alcohol when Officer Connor M. Grubb and another officer approached her car. Young, 21, partially lowered her window and the other officer ordered her…

Jessie Beck was a fisheries biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She lost her job in the Trump administration’s mass purge of probationary employees early this year. Meron Menghistab for NPR hide caption toggle caption Meron Menghistab for NPR More than six months after being terminated from her job with the federal government, Jessie Beck got the news she’d been hoping for — sort of. On Sept. 12, U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued his final decision in a case challenging the Trump administration’s mass firings of probationary employees, mostly those in their first year or two on…

Washington — Federal prosecutors are nearing a decision about whether to seek an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, a longtime foe of President Trump’s, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News. It’s unclear what alleged crimes Comey could be charged with, but multiple media outlets have reported that prosecutors have looked into charging him with lying to Congress when he testified in 2020 about the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The five-year statute of limitations for that runs out on Tuesday.Prosecutors are considering presenting a case against Comey to a…

Politics / September 24, 2025 What would a Democratic presidency armed with Trump’s limitless power look like? Ad Policy President Donald Trump displays his executive order establishing the Trump Card for HB-1 visa applicants at the Oval Office on September 19.(Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) For the past eight months, the Trump administration has been turning the executive branch into an elaborate partisan earth-scorching apparatus, one that the president and his allies clearly believe has no meaningful legal or moral limits. In some ways, you can’t blame Trump and his lieutenants. The Supreme Court has made legitimizing this lawlessness as…

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The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sent a memo to federal agencies Wednesday night telling them to prepare layoff plans if there is a government shutdown, increasing the stakes ahead of Congress’ Tuesday deadline to pass a government funding bill. The news was first reported by Politico.The memo, obtained by CBS News, tells agencies to consider reduction-in-force notices — a federal term for layoffs — for employees in programs, projects or activities that have discretionary funding that stops on Oct. 1 or that don’t have any alternative sources of funding. It also goes further and says that employees…