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Washington — A former top National Institutes of Health leader who says she was removed from her position after a dispute with Trump administration officials detailed the internal clashes at the elite medical research agency Monday, and warned of an agenda that poses “a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety.” Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo described in an exclusive interview with CBS News being silenced when she and her colleagues tried to oppose efforts pushed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to cancel vaccine research and clinical trials.”Ultimately, we were disregarded,” said Marrazzo, who previously led the NIH’s National…

After President Trump sparked congressional redistricting fights in Texas, California and Missouri, some advocacy groups are pivoting their strategies against partisan gerrymandering. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump has sparked redistricting fights in Texas, California and other states which could reshape the congressional election map. That has lead to some longtime opponents of gerrymandering reconsidering their strategies against the redrawing of voting districts to help a particular political party win. NPR’s Hansi Lo Wang reports.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER #1: Ready for some more chants?UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER #2: Yeah.UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER #1: Here we go.HANSI LO WANG, BYLINE: In 2019, Common Cause…

A deadly stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina last month has sparked outrage among elected officials, including President Trump, after local authorities released video of the attack on the Charlotte Area Transit System. Police say 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, who fled the war in Ukraine only to be killed in an apparently random attack on Aug. 22, was allegedly stabbed by a man with a long record of criminal charges and psychiatric crises. The suspect, 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., had served time in prison, been briefly committed for schizophrenia and was arrested earlier this year after repeatedly calling 911 from…

World / September 8, 2025 The attack on a ship off the Venezuelan coast is the first time the US has carried out a deadly military operation on its own in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama. Ad Policy A still from the footage of the Trump administration striking an alleged boat carrying drugs in the Caribbean.(The White House) On September 2, President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office that the US Navy had carried out an air strike on a boat in international waters allegedly carrying drugs off the coast of Venezuela. “Over the last few…

Washington — The House Oversight Committee released more records from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s estate late Monday, including hundreds of pages from a book compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell for his 50th birthday in 2003.Hours earlier, Democrats on the panel had released a letter in the book allegedly signed by Mr. Trump. The president has denied penning the message, which is typed within what appears to be the outline of a woman’s body.GOP Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer of Kentucky accused Democrats of “cherry-picking documents and politicizing information.”The committee subpoenaed Epstein’s estate in August, seeking documents and other materials as part of its…

Job seekers’ confidence in finding new employment has fallen, a new survey reveals.According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Consumer Expectations, the average “perceived probability” of finding a new job after losing one fell 5.8% points to 44.9% among heads of households surveyed in August, the lowest measure on record since 2013 when the New York Fed began collecting data.At the same time, Americans are increasingly worried about losing their current job. Expectations that the U.S. unemployment rate will be higher a year from now crept up 1.7 percentage points to 39.1%. The data comes as Americans adopt…

President Donald Trump speaking to reporters after stepping off Air Force One on September 7, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America The estate of Jeffrey Epstein has provided the House Oversight Committee with a copy of the birthday book prepared as a gift for the disgraced financier on his 50th birthday — an album that includes a tawdry image that appears to have been signed by President Trump, even though Trump had previously dismissed it as “fake.” Members of the oversight panel confirmed Monday that they had received the 2003 birthday…

The Department of Homeland Security said it was moving forward with ramped-up immigration enforcement in Chicago this week in an effort dubbed Operation Midway Blitz.”This ICE operation will target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American Streets,” the department said in a statement Monday. The department said the mission would be carried out “in honor of Katie Abraham,” who was killed in a drunk driving hit-and-run crash that happened in Urbana, about 130 miles south of Chicago,…

World / September 8, 2025 The ruler of a dying empire inflicts mindless militarism on Venezuela and Chicago. Ad Policy President Donald Trump signs an executive order renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (C) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine shake hands, in the Oval Office of the White House on September 5, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) Donald Trump’s jokes are never just jokes. However crude and nasty his attempts at humor might be, they offer a more accurate picture…

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Trump’s administration to resume sweeping immigration enforcement stops in the Los Angeles area as part of the president’s campaign to carry out mass deportations of people in the U.S. unlawfully.The high court agreed to freeze a district court’s temporary restraining order that prevented federal immigration authorities from stopping people in Southern California without reasonable suspicion that they are in the U.S. unlawfully. That order barred officials from relying solely on certain factors like a person’s race or occupation as the basis for a detentive stop. The U.S. Court of…