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Huntington Park, California, a working-class community of more than 50,000 people, has recently felt like it has a bullseye on its back because of ramped-up raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The town is 95.6% Latino, and as many as 45% of the residents are undocumented, according to the city.City Council member Jonathan Sanabria, who grew up in Huntington Park, says the local community is scared. “We are a target for them because we know that they are stereotyping and they’re racially profiling us. And they’re targeting folks that look like me,” he said.Sanabria took a CBS News crew to Pacific Boulevard,…

Politics / August 11, 2025 Trump has put the nation’s capital under federal occupation. Ad Policy People participate in a rally against the Trump administration’s federal takeover of the District of Columbia on August 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) Washington, DC, already lacks representation in Congress, has no control over its own budget, and cannot pass laws free from congressional interference. Now, under the Trump administration, the city is moving toward bantustan status. By invoking bogus emergency powers under the DC Home Rule Act, President Donald Trump has effectively federalized law enforcement within the district, delegating…

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, killing a police officer. The 30-year-old suspect, identified as Patrick Joseph White, fired at least 180 shots, two people with direct knowledge of the investigative findings from the ongoing probe of the shooting told CBS News on Monday.White, who died during the incident, had also tried to get inside the CDC’s headquarters but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across…

Washington — President Trump said Monday that he expected to determine mere moments into his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week whether it would be possible to work out a deal to halt the war in Ukraine. “At the end of that meeting, probably the first two minutes, I’ll know exactly whether or not a deal can be made,” Mr. Trump said at a White House press conference where he announced plans for a federal takeover of Washington’s police force to help combat crime. He said he thought Friday’s sitdown with Putin in Alaska would be “really a…

President Trump takes questions from reporters at the White House on August 8, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America President Trump said on Monday that he plans to use a Friday summit in Alaska to gauge whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to end his war on Ukraine — and said he’d been disappointed in the past in Putin’s actions. “This is really a feel-out meeting, a little bit,” Trump told reporters, predicting he would know “probably in the first two minutes” whether a deal would be possible. “I may…

Tropical Storm Erin formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on Monday, forecasters said. The storm could strengthen to become the Atlantic’s first hurricane of the season.The storm formed just west of the Cabo Verde islands off the western coast of Africa, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Erin was expected to move west. Early models showed that the storm was expected to strengthen into a major hurricane by the time it nears the Caribbean islands toward the end of the week. It doesn’t pose an immediate threat to the U.S.Maps show Tropical Storm Erin’s projected path A map…

Activism / August 11, 2025 Ending his extortion racket will demand not only courageous institutions—it will take the political opposition of us all. Ad Policy A woman speaks in a mega-phone while demonstrators holding a Trump balloon march front the Los Angeles City Hall to the Edward R. Roybal Federal and Detention Center building on August 2, 2025.(Apu Gomes / Getty Images) “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” So says Vito Corleone, played by Marlon Brando, in The Godfather. But it might also serve as the motto for Donald Trump’s approach to American civil society. The self-proclaimed…

U.S. chipmakers Nvidia and AMD will pay the U.S. government 15% of revenue generated by sales of their AI chips in China, a White House official confirmed to CBS News. The Financial Times on Sunday reported that the agreement between the tech giants and the U.S. government was reached as a condition for granting export licenses for China, which were provided last week. A U.S. official confirmed the “broad strokes” of the report to CBS.The arrangement, with companies providing a stream of revenue in exchange for export licenses, is highly unusual as corporations typically do not pay the federal government a share…

Washington — President Trump on Monday announced he has taken control of local law enforcement in Washington, D.C., and will deploy members of the National Guard to the city as part of a push to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital.”I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference at the White House. “This is liberation day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back.”Flanked by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,…

This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. New York State Sex Offender Registry/AP hide caption toggle caption New York State Sex Offender Registry/AP A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request to release grand jury transcripts from Justice Department investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell. The department asked the court last month to unseal the grand jury transcripts, which are generally secret, saying there was “abundant public interest” in the case. The unusual request was part of the administration’s effort…