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Trump’s White House ballroom and Van Buren Reporter’s Notebook: Trump’s White House ballroom and Martin Van Buren 01:50 Washington — New architectural renderings obtained by CBS News reveal in more detail the White House ballroom that is currently under construction.The Trump administration announced in July that a 90,000-square-foot ballroom with a seated capacity for 650 people will be constructed in the White House’s East Wing. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the project would be paid for by private donors and the president himself, who has committed to disclosing donors’ names.The new ballroom will be significantly larger than the…

An Ohio police officer accused of shooting to death a pregnant Black mother two years ago was not trained or supervised properly, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday against the police chief and the township that employed him.The estate of Ta’Kiya Young sued Blendon Township and its police chief over her August 2023 fatal shooting in the parking lot of a grocery store in the Columbus suburbs. She had been suspected of shoplifting bottles of alcohol when Officer Connor M. Grubb and another officer approached her car. Young, 21, partially lowered her window and the other officer ordered her…

Jessie Beck was a fisheries biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She lost her job in the Trump administration’s mass purge of probationary employees early this year. Meron Menghistab for NPR hide caption toggle caption Meron Menghistab for NPR More than six months after being terminated from her job with the federal government, Jessie Beck got the news she’d been hoping for — sort of. On Sept. 12, U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued his final decision in a case challenging the Trump administration’s mass firings of probationary employees, mostly those in their first year or two on…

Washington — Federal prosecutors are nearing a decision about whether to seek an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, a longtime foe of President Trump’s, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News. It’s unclear what alleged crimes Comey could be charged with, but multiple media outlets have reported that prosecutors have looked into charging him with lying to Congress when he testified in 2020 about the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The five-year statute of limitations for that runs out on Tuesday.Prosecutors are considering presenting a case against Comey to a…

Politics / September 24, 2025 What would a Democratic presidency armed with Trump’s limitless power look like? Ad Policy President Donald Trump displays his executive order establishing the Trump Card for HB-1 visa applicants at the Oval Office on September 19.(Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) For the past eight months, the Trump administration has been turning the executive branch into an elaborate partisan earth-scorching apparatus, one that the president and his allies clearly believe has no meaningful legal or moral limits. In some ways, you can’t blame Trump and his lieutenants. The Supreme Court has made legitimizing this lawlessness as…

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The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sent a memo to federal agencies Wednesday night telling them to prepare layoff plans if there is a government shutdown, increasing the stakes ahead of Congress’ Tuesday deadline to pass a government funding bill. The news was first reported by Politico.The memo, obtained by CBS News, tells agencies to consider reduction-in-force notices — a federal term for layoffs — for employees in programs, projects or activities that have discretionary funding that stops on Oct. 1 or that don’t have any alternative sources of funding. It also goes further and says that employees…

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought attends a cabinet meeting with President Trump at the White House on July 8, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America If the government shuts down on Oct. 1, the White House said it will look for ways to use the funding dispute to permanently eliminate some federal workers, rather than just temporarily send them home on unpaid leave. This proposed “reduction in force” — outlined in a memo obtained by NPR on Wednesday — would be a significant shift from past government shutdowns,…

Tropical Storm Humberto forms in the Atlantic Tropical Storm Humberto forms in the Atlantic 02:11 Tropical Storm Humberto formed Wednesday in the central tropical Atlantic, and it is anticipated to move northwestward through the next several days, according to the National Hurricane Center.The storm is one of two systems swirling over the western Atlantic that could potentially bring some downstream impacts to parts of the Southeast U.S. coast from Florida up to North Carolina, director of the Miami-based hurricane center, Dr. Michael Brennan, said.Currently, there are no coastal watches or warnings in effect. Tropical Storm Humberto forecast and pathAs of the…

Politics / September 24, 2025 There can’t be true desegregation without ending discrimination in housing—which is precisely why the administration is rolling back enforcement of the FHA. Ad Policy Donald Trump and his father, real estate developer Fred Trump.(Dennis Caruso / NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) In 1973, Donald Trump and his slumlord father were sued by the Department of Justice for racial discrimination, in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The suit was based on evidence from civil rights testers working for the New York City Human Rights Division. Essentially, Black people were told that there were…