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A federal judge in Louisiana expressed concern on Friday that the Trump administration had deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process” and against the wishes of her father.In a brief order issued from Federal District Court in the Western District of Louisiana, Judge Terry A. Doughty questioned why the administration had sent the child — known in court papers only as V.M.L. — to Honduras with her mother even though her father had sought in an emergency petition on Thursday to stop the girl from being sent abroad.“The government contends that this is all OK because…

President Trump has pardoned a Florida health care executive whose mother played a role in trying to expose the contents of Ashley Biden’s diary.The pardon of the executive, Paul Walczak, was signed privately on Wednesday and posted on the Justice Department’s website on Friday. It came less than two weeks after he was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution, for tax crimes that prosecutors said were used to finance a lavish lifestyle, including the purchase of a yacht.Mr. Walczak’s mother, Elizabeth Fago, who was also involved in the health care industry…

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty Friday to federal murder and stalking charges as a mix of supporters, onlookers and others gathered at the federal courthouse in New York City. A line — which began forming around 5 p.m. the previous evening — stretched in front of the entrance, with people eager to see the 26-year-old charged with ambushing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a husband and father of two, outside a midtown hotel on Dec. 4, 2024. Investigators said Thompson was on his way to an investors’ conference when he was shot in the back on the sidewalk. Mangione’s subsequent high-profile capture at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the subsequent court…

Attorney General Pam Bondi looks on as President Trump delivers remarks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on March 24. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images The Justice Department on Friday rescinded a Biden-era policy that provided protections to journalists in leak investigations, paving the way for authorities to once again use subpoenas and compel testimony from reporters in probes targeting leakers. “Federal government employees intentionally leaking sensitive information to the media undermines the ability of the Department of Justice to uphold the rule of law, protect civil rights, and keep America safe. This…

Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” as a teenager to rich and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Britain, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41.Ms. Giuffre died by suicide, according to a statement from the family. Ms. Giuffre (pronounced JIFF-ree) wrote in an Instagram post March that she was days away from dying of renal failure after being injured in a crash with a school bus that she said was traveling at nearly 70 m.p.h.In 2019, Mr. Epstein was…

A Department of Health and Human Services official said Friday that the health department is not creating an autism registry, contradicting an announcement made days ago by the director of the National Institutes of Health describing his plans to study causes of autism. “We are not creating an autism registry. The real-world data platform will link existing datasets to support research into causes of autism and insights into improved treatment strategies,” an official for the department told CBS News in an emailed statement.The plans outlined by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to amass a broad swath of confidential health data, as…

Politics / April 25, 2025 The latest press scandal shows how plutocracy props up authoritarianism. The latest press scandal shows how plutocracy props up authoritarianism. Ad Policy Still frame from Donald Trump’s interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl on October, 25, 2020.(CBS via Getty Images) Since 2016, Bill Owens has led 60 Minutes—he was only the third executive producer in the CBS News show’s history. When he addressed his staff on Tuesday in a memo announcing his resignation, he began, “The fact is that Sixty Minutes has been my life.” This is not an exaggeration. Owens has been at…

On a busy stretch of Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, three orange-and-white traffic cones sit atop the dirt in grates on the sidewalk where three trees once stood.It’s not a construction site. It’s a kind of crime scene.The three trees were some of the victims of one man’s bizarre eight-day tree-killing spree that destroyed more than a dozen mature trees in and around downtown Los Angeles, blocks from City Hall and Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall.The man, the authorities said, roamed the streets in the middle of the night and used a chain saw to cut elm, ficus…

The Pentagon set up a system in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office that enabled him to check messages on the encrypted messaging app Signal while at the office, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Two of the sources said the system bypasses standard Defense Department security protocols. A computer monitor in Hegseth’s office was installed to give him remote access to the Signal app and text messages from his personal cellphone, the sources said. Hegseth has used the system to check and respond to those messages at his desk, multiple sources said. The Associated Press earlier reported that Hegseth has…

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday said that federal authorities may once again seek reporters’ phone records and compel their testimony in leak investigations, reversing a Biden administration policy meant to protect journalism from intrusive efforts to identify and prosecute leakers.An internal Justice Department memo from Ms. Bondi said that the change was necessary to safeguard “classified, privileged and other sensitive information” — a far broader set of government secrets than is protected by the criminal code, which focuses primarily on making it illegal to share classified information.From his first days in the White House in 2017, President Trump has…