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4/21: CBS Evening News Plus – CBS News Watch CBS News How the world is mourning Pope Francis; Reporter’s Notebook: Pope Francis’ parable on accepting others Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

The Trump administration moved on Friday to weaken federal prohibitions on government employees showing support for President Trump while at work, embracing the notion that they should be allowed to wear campaign paraphernalia and removing an independent review board’s role in policing violations.The Office of Special Counsel, an agency involved in enforcing the restrictions, announced the changes to the interpretation of the Hatch Act, a Depression-era law devised to ensure that the federal work force operates free of political influence or coercion. The revisions, a resurrection of rules that Mr. Trump rolled out at the end of his first term…

The federal government has investigated prominent universities, paused grant funding and revoked student visas. And still, it is graduation season on American campuses, where thousands of young adults will soon don four-sided caps and celebrate years of hard work while “Pomp and Circumstance” plays on repeat.Like always, college administrators have selected a range of keynote speakers to impart wisdom (and, they hope, avoid controversy) at commencement ceremonies.A year after pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated at many graduations, and amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on higher education, colleges are walking a tightrope in picking speakers. Administrators want to find someone who is interesting…

Virginia Giuffre, one of the most outspoken accusers of Jeffrey Epstein, died by suicide on Friday, Giuffre’s family confirmed in a statement provided to CBS News. Giuffre died at her farm in Western Australia, her family said. She was 41.”She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” her family’s statement read. “Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure.”Last…

President Trump and his education secretary, Linda McMahon, have said repeatedly that they want to send education “back to the states.” But in recent lawsuits, the administration is accused of doing the opposite: wielding the power of the federal government to tell schools what they can and cannot teach. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Three federal judges, in Maryland, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C., ruled Thursday that the Trump administration had overstepped when it ordered the nation’s schools to stop all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs as well as classroom teaching the administration might consider discriminatory.…

If President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia drafted a shopping list of what he wanted from Washington, it would be hard to beat what he was offered in the first 100 days of President Trump’s new term.Pressure on Ukraine to surrender territory to Russia? Check.The promise of sanctions relief? Check.Absolution from invading Ukraine? Check.Indeed, as Mr. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff visited Moscow on Friday for more negotiations, the president’s vision for peace appeared notably one-sided, letting Russia keep the regions it had taken by force in violation of international law while forbidding Ukraine from ever joining NATO.But that is not…

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Politics / April 25, 2025 Trump’s escalation in the struggle between the courts and his administration sent shock waves through Milwaukee and beyond. Ad Policy Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 6, 2025.(Mandel Ngan / Getty) Milwaukee—The shocking decision by Trump administration authorities to order the arrest of a veteran Wisconsin jurist on Friday morning at the Milwaukee County Courthouse—based on claims that she might have briefly helped an immigrant avoid arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents—is being denounced by legal scholars and elected officials in Wisconsin and nationally.…

A coalition of 19 states sued the Trump administration on Friday over its threat to withhold federal funding from states and districts with certain diversity programs in their public schools.The lawsuit was filed in federal court by the attorneys general in California, New York, Illinois, Minnesota and other Democratic-leaning states, who argue that the Trump administration’s demand is illegal.The lawsuit centers on an April 3 memo the Trump administration sent to states, requiring them to certify that they do not use certain diversity, equity and inclusion programs that the administration has said are illegal.States that did not certify risked losing…

A 19-year-old U.S. citizen arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents earlier this month in Arizona and briefly prosecuted for illegal entry into the U.S. has intellectual disabilities, his family told CBS News.Jose Hermosillo was arrested on April 8 by CBP in Tucson and detained for 10 days. His family provided documentation proving his American citizenship, days after being taken into custody, according to court records and Department of Homeland Security assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security argued his arrest, which has attracted national attention, was a “direct result of his own actions and statements.” A…