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The White House is asking Congress to take back nearly $5 billion in appropriated foreign aid funds. The timing of the request makes it hard for Congress to weigh in before the end of the fiscal year. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Last night, the White House informed Congress that it plans to cut almost $5 billion that lawmakers had already approved for foreign aid. The White House used a rare maneuver called a pocket rescission. That’s when the government’s request comes so late that Congress doesn’t have enough time to vote on it before the end of the fiscal year. NPR’s…

More than 500 jobs at the Voice of America and other government-funded international broadcasters will be cut, a Trump administration official said. The move could ratchet up a monthslong legal challenge over the news outlets’ fate.Kari Lake, acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announced the latest round of job cuts in a social media post late Friday.”We are conducting this (reduction in force) at the President’s direction to help reduce the federal bureaucracy, improve agency service and save the American people more of their hard-earned money,” Lake said in a statement. “USAGM will continue to fulfill its…

Campaigning for president, Donald Trump assured workers that he would fight for them. “You’re going to have the American Dream back,” he said at his campaign rallies. “We’re going to be in the golden age.” His spokesperson now boasts that under Trump, workers already enjoy “increased job opportunities, better wages, and more bargaining power.” Trump promises his tariffs will produce a renaissance of American manufacturing. Hs unpopular Republican budget bill—which slashes Medicaid and health care to fund tax breaks for the rich—is peddled as providing “working family tax cuts.”Buried beneath the daily barrage of bluster is a systematic, multifront war…

The office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the U.S. government on Saturday to reverse its decision to revoke his visa, weeks before he is meant to appear at the United Nations’ annual meeting and an international conference about creating a Palestinian state.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio rescinded the visas of Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, the State Department disclosed on Friday. Palestinian representatives assigned to the U.N. mission were granted exceptions.The move is the latest in a series of steps the Trump administration has taken to target…

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told CBS News the Trump administration has not communicated with his state on a reported plan to send military forces to Chicago, calling the idea an “invasion” and arguing President Trump has “other aims” aside from cracking down on crime.Asked about a possible military deployment to America’s third-largest city, which was recently reported by The Washington Post, Pritzker told CBS News: “It’s clear that, in secret, they’re planning this — well, it’s an invasion with U.S. troops, if they, in fact, do that.”Mr. Trump has deployed National Guard forces and federal agents to the streets of…

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe, at the Missouri State Fair this month, has called lawmakers to a special session to draw new voting lines sought by President Trump. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Riedel/AP Following President Trump’s request, Missouri Republicans are poised to redraw their state’s congressional lines to help maintain the GOP majority in the U.S. House. Gov. Mike Kehoe announced a special legislative session to draw a new voting map would start next Wednesday. The state is currently represented in Congress by six Republicans and two Democrats. New maps could redistrict voters in the Kansas City area…

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, survivors can still describe in detail what they faced in the days after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast.In New Orleans, many initially thought they had escaped the worst, that is, until the storm surge overwhelmed the levees, breaking the city’s floodwalls. As the days went on, the situation became worse and worse.Hurricane Katrina led to nearly 1,400 deaths, displaced more than a million people and left hundreds of billions of dollars in damage across the Gulf Coast. While the recovery has varied, some people who made it back to New Orleans have found hope in…

Politics / August 29, 2025 New York State is a case study in Democrats’ failure to understand the evolving political landscape. Ad Policy People gather outside the Supreme Court as it hears arguments for the landmark gerrymandering case Rucho v. Common Cause.(Aurora Samperio / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Texas Republicans forced through a partisan redistricting map last weekend that should allow the GOP to gain an additional five seats in the House of Representatives during next year’s midterm election. The map gives the state’s white voters, who make up only 40 percent of Texas’s population, control of 73 percent of…

new video loaded: A Father Took His Daughters to School. Then Came the Gunshots.transcriptBacktranscriptA Father Took His Daughters to School. Then Came the Gunshots.Anders Holine was among the first parents to arrive at the scene of a mass shooting at a Minneapolis church on Wednesday. He spoke to The New York Times about what he witnessed as he went searching for his two daughters.My heart just, like, dropped, and I felt sick. I entered right after the police did. I think it was very chaotic. “Looks like you guys are on a team.” “Cool.” The doors opened, and kids started…

A federal appeals court said Friday that many of the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Trump on dozens of countries earlier this year are not legally permissible.The ruling will not immediately block the tariffs, but it marks a significant blow to Mr. Trump’s signature trade strategy.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court decision that found many of Mr. Trump’s tariffs on foreign goods exceeded his power under federal economic emergency laws. However, the appellate judges vacated the lower court’s injunction blocking the tariffs altogether, directing the court to reevaluate whether universal relief is appropriate.The…