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Washington — Video footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol shows a man who now works as an adviser at the Justice Department shouting at rioters to “kill” law enforcement officers responding to the attack and calling them “the Gestapo.”The footage, from a body camera worn by a Metropolitan Police Department officer, was first published Thursday by NPR. The network joined CBS News and other news organizations in suing to obtain thousands of hours of surveillance footage and court exhibits from the more than 1,000 criminal cases brought by the Justice Department against people who allegedly…

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Politics / August 8, 2025 There’s no way for Republicans to tamp down the Epstein-Maxwell scandal if the president keeps telling on himself. Ad Policy (Adam Gray / Getty Images) Vice President JD Vance was expected to hold a lovely summer dinner Wednesday night at his Naval Observatory residence with colleagues like White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Multiple media outlets reported that the group was planning to discuss the Trump administration’s failing strategy to get the Jeffrey Epstein–Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking scandal, and Trump’s long…

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A bull moose whose lingering presence around an Adirondack mountain hiking trail this summer forced its closure was euthanized after showing signs of severely deteriorating health, New York environmental officials said Thursday.The Goodman Mountain trail in the Horseshoe Lake Wild Forest had been temporarily closed since June 6 after the moose began exhibiting “unusual behaviors” and staying on or around the trail near the summit. The moose, about 6 feet tall at the shoulder, was first spotted by the trail in May and efforts coax it away were unsuccessful.Wildlife biologists and a state veterinarian who visited the trail near Tupper…

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The Trump administration plans to increase federal law enforcement in Washington, D.C., as early as Friday morning following the alleged assault of former Department of Government Efficiency staffer Edward Coristine over the weekend; the incident prompted outrage from the president himself.After the alleged attack on the ex-DOGE staffer, President Trump on Wednesday said in a Truth Social post that he might put the District of Columbia under federal control if the city doesn’t “get its act together, and quickly.””If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City,” he wrote.Three sources briefed on the D.C. deployment…

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A Kashmiri man walks past a shop displaying stone jewellery and Kashmiri handicrafts in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Dar Yasin/AP hide caption toggle caption Dar Yasin/AP MUMBAI, India — India’s prime minister responded with defiance after President Trump threatened to double tariffs on his country to 50%, because it purchases Russian oil. Trump accuses India of undermining American efforts to counter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “India is not only buying massive amounts of Russian Oil, they are then, for much of the Oil purchased, selling it on the Open Market for big profits,” he posted on Truth Social earlier this…

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New Orleans — The sheriff who oversees a New Orleans jail that was the site of a brash escape of 10 inmates earlier this year told CBS News in an exclusive interview Thursday that prison staffing and design flaws played a major role in the breakout.   Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson said the Orleans Parish Justice Center jail, built 10 years ago, was poorly constructed from the start.  “There are major design flaws in it that make it unsafe for those who are housed here and make it unsafe for those who work here,” Hutson told CBS News. “And I…

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A federal judge in Maryland ruled late Thursday that President Trump’s administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily, issuing the fourth court decision blocking the president’s birthright citizenship order nationwide since a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June.  U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman’s preliminary injunction was expected after the judge said last month she would issue such an order if the case were returned to her by an appeals court. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to her later in July.The policy, which has been the…

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Karen Wagner speaks with Rep. Mike Flood before a town hall at Kimball Recital Hall on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lincoln, Neb., on Aug. 4. Rebecca S. Gratz for The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rebecca S. Gratz for The Washington Post/Getty Images Representative Mike Flood felt the full fury of his constituents over his support of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” at a town hall meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska this week. Flood — a second-term Republican — hosted the public gathering Monday night where attendees loudly berated him about concerns that social…

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President Trump on Thursday said he had instructed the Department of Commerce to “immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate” census that would exclude undocumented immigrants. But the census is a massive undertaking and has huge repercussions nationally, including on congressional seat alignment — so it’s not something that can be changed quickly. In fact, the Census Bureau said it began planning the 2030 census in 2019. Asked for comment on Mr. Trump’s post, a Commerce Department spokesperson told CBS News in a statement: “The Census Bureau will immediately adopt modern technology tools for use in the Census to better understand our…

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