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Israel warns Gaza City residents to evacuate as it prepares assault – CBS News Watch CBS News Israel has urged the residents of Gaza City to evacuate as it prepares for a full-scale military assault. Leaflets dropped from the sky telling residents of the famine-stricken area to leave. Haley Ott reports. Source link

Aryna Sabalenka has won her fourth Grand Slam title overall and second straight at the U.S. Open after defeating Amanda Anisimova in the women’s final on Saturday.The 27-year-old from Belarus is the first woman since Serena Williams in 2012-14 to win consecutive trophies at the U.S. Open. Aryna Sabalenka returns against Amanda Anisimova of the United States during their Women’s Singles Final match on Day Fourteen of the 2025 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sept. 6, 2025, in New York City. Elsa / Getty Images No. 1-seeded Sabalenka took the first set against Anisimova 6-3. She nearly repeated…

Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday.The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or taxes, after the U.S. eliminated the so-called “de minimis exemption” for lower-value parcels.Eighty-eight postal operators have told the UPU that they have suspended some or all postal services to the United States until a solution is implemented with regard to U.S.-bound parcels valued at $800 or less, which had…

South Sudan said Saturday it repatriated to Mexico a man deported from the United States in July.The man, a Mexican identified as Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, was among a group of eight who had been in government custody in the East African country since their deportation from the U.S.His repatriation to Mexico was carried out by South Sudan’s foreign ministry in concert with the Mexican Embassy in neighboring Ethiopia, the South Sudanese foreign ministry said in a statement. Jesus Munoz Gutierrez, a Mexican migrant deported months ago to South Sudan by the United States. Deng Machol / AP The repatriation was carried…

President Trump appeared to once again threaten sending troops to Chicago for a widespread immigration and crime crackdown similar to that seen in Los Angeles when the National Guard was recently deployed there.In a post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump shared a screenshot that reads “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning …’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” The AI-generated image appears to parody the movie “Apocalypse Now.” Mr. Trump has targeted Chicago and other Democrat-led cities for expanded federal intervention. His administration has said it will step up immigration enforcement in…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to reporters before touring “Camp 57,” a facility to house immigration detainees at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption toggle caption Gerald Herbert/AP SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco for the plaintiffs means 600,000 Venezuelans whose temporary protections expired in April…

Carey Gallagher began her senior year at Yonkers Middle High School in New York this week alongside 1,438 students, now all required to place their cellphones in a locked magnetic pouch.Yonkers School District purchased Yondr phone pouches for about 11,000 students to comply with the statewide mandate that bans phones in classrooms. The pouch, which students carry with them, is locked and unlocked using magnets affixed to the entrance of the school and outside the main office. Gallagher, 16, said she had already started to put limits on her phone use this summer when she found out the pouches would be…

Former President Joe Biden has decided to build his presidential library in Delaware, an aide confirmed to CBS News on Saturday. The 82-year-old former president has tapped a group of former aides, friends and political allies to begin the heavy lift of fundraising and finding a site for the museum and archive.The Joe and Jill Biden Foundation, this past week, approved a 13-person governance board that is charged with steering the project that includes former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, longtime adviser Steve Ricchetti, prolific Democratic fundraiser Rufus Gifford, a list provided to CBS News shows. Gifford will serve as the board’s chair.Biden’s library team…

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., presents Debra Willett, the granddaughter of Harlem Hellfighter Sgt. Leander Willett, with the Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of all of the “Harlem Hellfighters” of World War I during a ceremony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Harlem Hellfighters of the New York National Guard’s 369th Infantry Regiment were posthumously honored this week with a Congressional Gold Medal. They received the highest civilian honor given by Congress, decades after their service during World War I was largely ignored by top military brass…

Israel’s army called Saturday on Palestinians in Gaza City to move to a humanitarian area it designated in the south as it expanded its operations in preparation for seizing the famine-stricken city.Parts of the city, home to nearly 1 million people, are already considered “red zones,” where evacuation orders have been issued ahead of expected heavy fighting. Aid groups have repeatedly warned that a large-scale evacuation of Gaza City would exacerbate the dire humanitarian crisis. Palestinians have been uprooted and displaced multiple times during the nearly two-year-long war, with many being too weak to move and having nowhere to go.Israeli…