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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to reporters before touring “Camp 57,” a facility to house immigration detainees at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption toggle caption Gerald Herbert/AP SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco for the plaintiffs means 600,000 Venezuelans whose temporary protections expired in April…

Carey Gallagher began her senior year at Yonkers Middle High School in New York this week alongside 1,438 students, now all required to place their cellphones in a locked magnetic pouch.Yonkers School District purchased Yondr phone pouches for about 11,000 students to comply with the statewide mandate that bans phones in classrooms. The pouch, which students carry with them, is locked and unlocked using magnets affixed to the entrance of the school and outside the main office. Gallagher, 16, said she had already started to put limits on her phone use this summer when she found out the pouches would be…

Former President Joe Biden has decided to build his presidential library in Delaware, an aide confirmed to CBS News on Saturday. The 82-year-old former president has tapped a group of former aides, friends and political allies to begin the heavy lift of fundraising and finding a site for the museum and archive.The Joe and Jill Biden Foundation, this past week, approved a 13-person governance board that is charged with steering the project that includes former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, longtime adviser Steve Ricchetti, prolific Democratic fundraiser Rufus Gifford, a list provided to CBS News shows. Gifford will serve as the board’s chair.Biden’s library team…

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., presents Debra Willett, the granddaughter of Harlem Hellfighter Sgt. Leander Willett, with the Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of all of the “Harlem Hellfighters” of World War I during a ceremony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Harlem Hellfighters of the New York National Guard’s 369th Infantry Regiment were posthumously honored this week with a Congressional Gold Medal. They received the highest civilian honor given by Congress, decades after their service during World War I was largely ignored by top military brass…

Israel’s army called Saturday on Palestinians in Gaza City to move to a humanitarian area it designated in the south as it expanded its operations in preparation for seizing the famine-stricken city.Parts of the city, home to nearly 1 million people, are already considered “red zones,” where evacuation orders have been issued ahead of expected heavy fighting. Aid groups have repeatedly warned that a large-scale evacuation of Gaza City would exacerbate the dire humanitarian crisis. Palestinians have been uprooted and displaced multiple times during the nearly two-year-long war, with many being too weak to move and having nowhere to go.Israeli…

Behind Trump’s order for Department of War name change – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump signed his 200th executive order, seeking to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War. The move restores the name the agency last held in the 1940s. Charlie D’Agata has more. Source link

National Guard Military Police watch as trains arrive and depart during rush hour at L’Enfant Plaza station on Sept. 4 in Washington, D.C. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kent Nishimura/Getty Images North America Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans are preparing for the potential arrival of National Guard troops — in what may be the latest set of cities targeted under President Trump. Trump mentioned all three cities this week as possible places for troop deployment in order to curb crime – though data shows that crime has gone down in those cities. It comes after the…

9/5: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News Breaking down the August jobs report that has economists talking; Man achieves dream of making the LSU marching band at 66 years old Source link

Politics / September 5, 2025 Two bills making their way through the California legislature seek to end masking of federal agents and other tactics that are terrorizing communities. Ad Policy Protest signs on the ground outside of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco in July that read, “Protect Our Neighbors / Protegiendo Nuestros Vecinos” and “Keep Families Together / Manteniendo Familias Unidas.” (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images) California state Senator Scott Wiener (D-11th District) is on a mission to rein in America’s new secret police. His bill, the No Secret Police Act (SB 627), would make…

For the second time in two days, Venezuela has flown military aircraft in the vicinity of the USS Jason Dunham in international waters near South America, multiple Defense Department officials confirmed to CBS News Friday, describing the action as turning into a “game of chicken.” The aircraft, which one Defense Department official said were F-16 fighter jets, flew over the Dunham sometime overnight Thursday. It was unknown if the aircraft was armed. The Dunham, an Aegis guided-missile destroyer, did not engage, the officials said. The aircraft was within weapons-range for both the aircraft and the ship, the officials added. This…