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Washington — President Trump is set to sign a landmark bill to regulate cryptocurrency on Friday, one day after the bill passed the House despite some opposition from conservatives. The legislation, called the GENIUS Act, will be the first major law governing digital currency, establishing a regulatory framework for the $250 billion stablecoin market. Stablecoins are viewed as a relatively safe type of cryptocurrency, since their value is pegged to other assets, like the dollar. The bill passed the House on Thursday with the support of 206 Republicans and 102 Democrats. The fate of the GENIUS Act was in question earlier this…

July 18, 2025 Partisan politics is making a travesty of justice. Ad Policy Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who committed suicide in April, with a photo of herself as a teen, when she said she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Prince Andrew, among others. (Emily Michot / Miami Herald / Tribune News Service via Getty Images) The contours of the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal are defined by two suicides: one famous, and one relatively obscure—but the true moral heart of the controversy. Epstein’s apparent suicide in prison in 2019 is course a major reason his scandalous life continues to…

A 38-year-old father was arrested by immigration officials outside his child’s preschool in Oregon on Tuesday, officials said.Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, a citizen of Iran, was arrested for overstaying his visa, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson told CBS News on Friday.The spokesperson said ICE officials attempted to arrest Khanbabazadeh during a traffic stop when he requested permission to drop his child off at daycare. The agency allowed him to the school’s parking lot, where he “resisted arrest and refused to exit his vehicle.”ICE officials broke one of the windows of the vehicle to “complete the arrest,” the spokesperson said, adding…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was injured during one of Israel’s attacks on Iran last month, two U.S. intelligence sources have confirmed to CBS News. The sources told CBS News that reports in Iranian state-run media are accurate that Pezeshkian was attending a Supreme National Security Council meeting when the Israeli strike happened. The state media report said he sustained leg injuries while escaping through an emergency shaft. It remains unclear if he was intentionally targeted. During an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this month, Pezeshkian claimed Israel attempted to assassinate him by bombarding an area in which he was participating in a meeting.Asked…

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 The House approved a rescission plan last night to claw back $9 billion in previously allocated funds. This plan includes cutting federal support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which affects NPR, PBS and their member stations, as well as foreign aid. The vote was 216 to 213, with the support of all but two Republicans. The bill now heads to President Trump’s desk to be signed.…

Washington — The Texas Legislature is set to convene Monday for a special session where it will attempt to redraw the state’s congressional map to boost President Trump and his allies’ efforts to maintain the GOP’s grip on the U.S. House in next year’s midterm elections.The state’s decision to recraft the boundaries of House districts comes midway through the decade and several years after its GOP-controlled Legislature adopted a redistricting plan in the wake of the 2020 Census.Under that plan, Republicans hold 25 of the state’s 38 congressional seats, while Democrats control 12. (The death of Rep. Sylvester Turner, a…

Voters aren’t tuning out because they don’t care. They’re tuning out because they’ve been exhausted by fake choices, sold out by both parties, and tired of inauthenticity. Ad Policy As the income gap between rich and poor continues to grow, dollar and 99 -cent stores have become increasingly popular in both urban and rural America.(Spencer Platt / Getty Images) Last week, a short video of one of my speeches rapidly spread online. It’s now passed 8 million views and 707k likes across TikTok and Instagram. I was shocked, because it was rather simple testimony from “the People’s Hearing” in North…

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the U.S. Department of Justice is targeting him after the federal government requested a list of incarcerated undocumented immigrants. During a news conference on Thursday, Luna said the federal government has threatened to charge him if his agency does not cooperate. “I’ve personally received, I’m going to call it, threatening letters from the federal government to make sure that we are cooperating with them, doing civil immigration enforcement,” Luna said. “A lot of them say, if you don’t, there’s going to be consequences up to the point of you being charged federally.”The Justice Department said…

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People participate in a rally to call on Congress to protect funding for US public broadcasters, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), outside the NPR headquarters in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The House has approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) — a move that cuts all federal support for NPR, PBS and their member stations — and about $7 billion in foreign aid. The…