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8/4: CBS Evening News Plus – CBS News Watch CBS News Inside the Trump administration’s push for more ICE centers like “Alligator Alcatraz”; Political analyst on Texas’ redistricting fight Source link

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives a media briefing during the ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting at the in Kuala Lumpur Friday, Malaysia, on July 11, 2025. Mandel Ngan/Pool AFP/AP hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/Pool AFP/AP The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many. In a notice to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, the department said it would start a 12-month pilot program under which people from countries deemed…

U.S. border agents have been directed to stop deporting migrants under President Trump’s ban on asylum claims, following a federal court order that said the measure could not be used to completely suspend humanitarian protections for asylum-seekers, two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News.The move effectively lifts a sweeping policy that had closed the American asylum system to those entering the U.S. illegally or without proper documents. It’s a measure the second Trump administration has credited for a steep drop in illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, where officials last month reported the lowest monthly level of migrant…

Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, attends an endorsement event from the union DC 37 on July 15, 2025. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images) Writing in The New Republic, Greg Sargent called attention to Zohran Mamdani’s highly effective media strategy, which has allowed him to reach many voters that have been drifting away from the Democratic Party, especially young people and immigrants. In punchy, short videos, Mamdani has offered an optimistic message that celebrates big city life and diversity while showing how government policies can help make life better. I talked to Greg…

8/4: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News Democratic lawmakers who fled Texas speak out after being threatened with arrest; Number of butterflies decreasing across U.S. Source link

President Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday creating a task force to oversee the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the White House confirmed Monday. Reuters news service first reported the task force, which it said would work on security, transportation and visa processing. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass — both of whom have a contentious relationship with the president — have not yet responded to news of the task force.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Mr. Trump had been “instrumental in securing America’s bid to host the 2028 Summer Olympics in…

Texas state Rep. Jolanda “Jo” Jones, a Democrat, flips through maps during a public hearing on congressional redistricting in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 1. After the bill passed the committee, state Democrats fled to Illinois and New York to break the quorum and stall a vote on the new maps, which heavily favor Republicans. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP The Texas House of Representatives is at a standstill after Democrats fled the state over the weekend to prevent a vote on a bill to redraw Texas’ congressional maps. The bill heavily favors Republicans, with five new GOP-leaning…

Breaking down Gabbard’s Russia claims Assessing Tulsi Gabbard’s claims on Obama administration’s Russia intel report 05:10 Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury investigation into the intelligence regarding President Trump and Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election.She has directed Justice Department staff to begin legal proceedings and ordered a federal prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury about the matter to secure a potential indictment, according to a source familiar with Bondi’s efforts. It is unclear what the charges would be and who would be charged.The directive follows a criminal referral from Director of National…

Politics / August 4, 2025 The public overwhelmingly opposes the genocide, but the political elites help keep it going. Something has to give. Ad Policy Members of Jewish Voice for Peace are led away after being arrested for occupying the New York offices of Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand on August 1, 2025.(Michael Nigro / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images) Israel’s slaughter and engineered famine in Gaza is producing wrenching images of starving children so horrifying that even members of the American political elite, traditionally a group with a high tolerance for the mass murder of ordinary…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the civil arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block a vote on a Republican-backed congressional redistricting plan, escalating a standoff that has stalled the legislative session.The absence of the Democratic lawmakers broke quorum, which meant the House did not have enough members present to hold a debate on a bill to redraw the state’s congressional districts to add five seats favoring Republicans. That prompted a Republican-backed motion for their civil arrests.”In response to this dereliction of duty,” House Speaker Dustin Burrows said Monday, “in pursuant to the rules of the…