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U.S. Marines’ Lockheed Martin F35-B jets arrive in formation to José Aponte de la Torre Airport in September 2025, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. President Trump sent ten F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico as part of his war on drug cartels. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images At a recent hearing on Capitol Hill, FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated the Trump administration’s labeling of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and told lawmakers the United States should go after narcotraffickers like it did al-Qaida in the wake of…

Federal immigration officials have revealed plans to reopen the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to new applicants to comply with a court order, though they cautioned the Trump administration retains the discretion to modify the Obama-era policy.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has made plans to accept and process new DACA applications from immigrants not enrolled in the initiative, which currently allows more than half a million so-called “Dreamers” to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation, the Justice Department said in a court filing Monday.Dreamers are immigrants who, as children, entered the U.S. illegally or overstayed…

Tracking Imelda as it strengthens into a hurricane in the Atlantic – CBS News Watch CBS News Imelda strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday morning. It is already blamed for at least two deaths in eastern Cuba after flooding and landslides hit Monday. CBS News meteorologist Rob Marciano is tracking the storm. Source link

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Top Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left yesterday’s meeting with President Trump without a plan to fund the government. Federal agencies run out of money at midnight tonight. The meeting, which also included Vice President JD Vance, was a last-minute attempt to resolve a weeks-long standoff between the parties over spending. Vance made it clear that the GOP wouldn’t agree to Democrats’ demands to attach health care…

  1m ago Hegseth says he is overhauling the Pentagon’s inspector general Hegseth said that he is issuing new policies to overhaul the Defense Department’s internal watchdog, its inspector general, as well as the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Military Equal Opportunity program.He said he calls it the “no more walking on eggshells” policy. “We are liberating commanders and NCOs,” Hegseth said. “We are liberating you.”Hegseth said senior military leaders need to end the “poisonous culture of risk aversion.””You must trust that the warrior alongside you in battle is capable, truly, physically capable of doing what is necessary under fire,”…

Politics / September 29, 2025 Foreign bots were spewing much of the racist rhetoric that followed Charlie Kirk’s killing. And yet it gained traction only because there is plenty of homegrown racism to exploit. Ad Policy Utah Governor Spencer Cox and FBI Director Kash Patel at a press conference following the shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.(Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images) The evening after Charlie Kirk’s murder, the public safety commissioner of Utah, where Kirk was fatally shot on a college campus, admitted that law enforcement still had “no idea” about the identity of the…

9/29: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News What to know about Trump’s peace proposal for Gaza; Dads form group to write letters to thousands of strangers Source link

In a call from the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday expressed his “deep regret” to Qatar over the Doha air strike on Hamas leadership earlier this month that set back Middle East peace negotiations. The apology occurred during a trilateral phone call between President Trump, Mr. Netanyahu and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al Thani during the Israeli leader’s visit to the White House. “Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep regret that Israel’s missile strike against Hamas targets in Qatar unintentionally killed a Qatari serviceman,” the White House said in a readout of…

A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, the government-funded broadcaster founded to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II.U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ruled that the U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot implement a reduction in force eliminating 532 jobs for full-time government employees on Tuesday. Those employees represent the vast majority of its remaining staff.Kari Lake, the agency’s acting CEO, announced in late August that the job cuts would take effect Tuesday. But the judge’s ruling preserves the status quo…

The federal government is close to a shutdown. President Trump met Monday with top Congressional leaders from both parties in the Oval Office, which ended with both sides dug in. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: The federal government is perilously close to a government shutdown. In a last-ditch effort to head that off, or at least to look like they’re trying, President Trump met today with the top congressional leaders from both parties in the Oval Office. But that meeting ended with both sides dug in. Here’s House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)HAKEEM JEFFRIES: It was a frank and direct…