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Washington — A federal judge in California ruled Friday that the Trump administration’s attempt to end the Temporary Protected Status program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan and Haitian migrants was unlawful.The move by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen effectively sets aside the administration’s attempt to end temporary legal protections and work permits for certain people from Venezuela and Haiti — unless his ruling is overturned on appeal. Chen ruled in favor of the National TPS Alliance, an organization that represents TPS holders across the country, and a group of Venezuelan migrants who received protections under the program.”This case arose…

Supporters of Bureau of Labor Statistics employees join a rally outside the Labor Department on Friday, September 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Andrea Hsu/NPR hide caption toggle caption Andrea Hsu/NPR With a new, sobering jobs report out Friday, some current employees at the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are seeking to reassure the American public that the government’s economic data is reliable and worthy of their trust. “Our job is to deliver economic data guided by law and statistical practice —not partisan whim,” they wrote in a statement read aloud at a rally outside the Labor Department’s Washington,…

Giorgio Armani leaves a legacy not only as a seminal figure in the history of fashion, but also as a visionary business leader who built a globally recognized brand and multibillion-dollar business empire, industry experts said after his death Thursday at age 91.”Armani made certain that his vision was consistent and that it was always classy, even down to presentation in the Armani Exchange stores,” Shawn Grain Carter, an associate professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, told CBS MoneyWatch.Re Giorgio, or “King George,” as the Italians call him, Armani famously created luxury looks for Hollywood starlets on the red…

Politics / September 5, 2025 The problem of gerontocracy includes the donor class. Ad Policy Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) poses with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House on January 5, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Kent Nishimura / Getty Images) Republican Senator Susan Collins is facing a tough reelection bid in Maine next year, but she has an ace up her sleeve: Hollywood Democrats who love her and are ready to fill up her election coffers. On August 19, The New York Times reported that Collins will be attending a fundraiser on her behalf on September 26…

The Trump administration is expected to issue an executive order as early as Friday establishing a designation for state sponsors of wrongful detention, CBS News has learned, in a move that would allow the U.S. to punish countries that illegally detain U.S. nationals or take them hostage. The effort is aimed at curbing the number of Americans who elect to travel to such countries, and encouraging the leaders of those countries to immediately free Americans currently held there.Modeled after the designation of state sponsors of terrorism, the measure would provide tools for the State Department to penalize nations that use detained…

A lightsaber Darth Vader used in the Star Wars films “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi” sold at auction Thursday for more than $3.6 million.The iconic prop had been estimated to sell for between $1 and $3 million, according to the auction site Propstore, which hosted the bidding. There were 31 bids, with the winning one at $3,654,000.”Wielded by both David Prowse” — the Darth Vader actor — “and stunt performer Bob Anderson, this is the primary dueling prop created for Vader’s character in both Empire and Jedi,” the site says. “It saw extensive use during the…

Members of the U.S. Park Police guard an entrance to the 9th Street tunnel in front of the Smithsonian Castle on Aug. 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C., after the Trump administration initiated a federal takeover of D.C. police and deployed the National Guard in the city. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images In a letter sent Friday to the Smithsonian Institution’s secretary, Lonnie G. Bunch, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and three other Democratic senators urged Bunch to resist any attempts by the White House to “bully the institution to go against its mission and values.” The…

The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to accommodate roughly 250 federal agents and 140 vehicles at a military base in Illinois ahead of an expected increase in immigration roundups in the Chicago area, according to an internal government memo obtained by CBS News. In a request for assistance to the Department of Defense, a top Homeland Security official indicated the Naval Station Great Lakes — the largest military base in Illinois and the Navy’s largest training station — would be used as a staging area to oversee “removal operations” in the metropolitan Chicago area targeting immigrants suspected of…

September 5, 2025 It’s still unclear—and that’s the problem. Ad Policy DC Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks the US District Courthouse in Washington, DC, on August 15, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images) Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser has undergone a rapid transformation over the past three weeks. What began as capitulation to Trump’s ongoing military occupation of the city has now become a pivot to something confused, unclear, and perhaps even ominous. The regime’s criminalization of DC’s residents is no longer—as her defenders claim—something being imposed on Bowser by racist, sexist Donald Trump. This now appears to be…

Savannah, Ga. — U.S. immigration authorities on Thursday raided the sprawling site where Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles in southeast Georgia, conducting a search that shut down construction on an adjacent factory being built to produce EV batteries.In a post on X, the Atlanta office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it “joined HSI, FBI, DEA, ICE, GSP and other agencies in a major immigration enforcement operation at the Hyundai mega site battery plant in Bryan County, GA, leading to the apprehension of 450 unlawful aliens, emphasizing our commitment to community safety.”The operation targeted one of Georgia’s…