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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 Senate approved legislation early this morning to rescind $9 billion in federal funding for NPR, PBS, their member stations and foreign aid programs. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., noted that it has been over 30 years since a rescission package was passed. The House is expected to vote on the rescission package later today. If it passes, it will be a win for President Trump…

Some Power Stick deodorants manufactured by A.P. Deauville are under recall for manufacturing defects, according to the Food and Drug Administration.The recall impacts more than 67,000 cases of roll-on deodorants that were sold nationally, a notice posted by the agency shows. The issue is related to deviations with “current good manufacturing practices,” a set of guidelines for for pharmaceutical manufacturing, although the recall notice didn’t specify the issues with the deodorants. Easton, Pennsylvania-based A.P. Deauville didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The recalled deodorants are:Power Stick for her roll-on Antiperspirant Deodorant Powder Fresh, 1.8 oz/53 mL, UPC Code 815195019313 NDC# 42913-038-00,…

With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold. Ad Policy Community and immigrant rights organizations rally in Oakland’s Latino Fruitvale district protesting immigration raids. One sign says “For my father, who was deported. Watch me from Heaven, Papa. This is our war!”(David Bacon) Jaime Alanis Garcia died of a broken neck in the Ventura County Medical Center on Saturday. He fell 30 feet from the roof of a Glass House Farms greenhouse, where he’d climbed in a…

London — Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 by the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic participation, the government announced Thursday. The center-left Labour Party pledged before it was elected in July 2024 to lower the voting age for elections to Britain’s Parliament. Scotland and Wales already let 16- and 17-year-olds vote in local and regional elections. Britain will join a short list of countries where the voting age is 16, including Austria, Brazil and Ecuador. A handful of European Union countries, including Belgium, Germany and Malta, allow 16-year-olds to vote in elections…

Washington — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday will consider the nomination of Emil Bove, President Trump’s former defense lawyer and a top Justice Department official, to serve a lifetime appointment as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.If Bove clears the GOP-led panel, he will surmount a key hurdle amid staunch opposition from a host of former federal prosecutors and judges, as well as allegations of unethical conduct by a Justice Department whistleblower.Bove’s path to winning approval from the Judiciary Committee became easier earlier this week, when Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to speak with reporters about Senate Republicans’ efforts to claw back $1.1 billion of funding authority from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and about $8.3 billion from foreign aid programs targeted by DOGE, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Senate has approved the Trump administration’s $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television — a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public…

Washington — The Senate passed President Trump’s request to rescind $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funding early Thursday, culminating an hours-long “vote-a-rama” and sending it back to the House ahead of a Friday deadline.In a 51-48 vote, Republicans Susan Collins, of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, joined Democrats in opposing the package.Vice President JD Vance, who cast two tie-breaking votes Tuesday for the measure to clear procedural hurdles, was not needed for final passage. Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota was hospitalized and missed the vote.Both chambers need to approve the request before it expires at the…

Since 1979, the US has been in perpetual economic, military, and political combat with the Iranian state. The only difference now is that bombs are falling. Ad Policy US President Donald Trump announces “hard-hitting sanctions” on Iran’s supreme leader on June 24, 2019.(Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images) The US strikes on Iran—and the retaliatory Iranian strikes on US military bases in Qatar—have both ended. The symbolic and highly choreographed exchange of fire between the two countries is over, at least for the moment. What now exists could not be called war, but it certainly couldn’t be called peace…

Federal prosecutor Maurene Comey fired, sources tell CBS News Federal prosecutor Maurene Comey fired, sources tell CBS News 00:29 The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and the daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, according to three sources, including one former Justice Department prosecutor.She was given a memo informing her of the firing, two sources said. According to one source, the memo stated in part that she was being dismissed pursuant to Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which is the portion of the Constitution that lays out the president’s powers.Maurene Comey served as a federal prosecutor…

The sweeping layoffs that hit the State Department last week have triggered confusion and disruption at the agency, gutting some offices unexpectedly and forcing staff to scramble, multiple sources told CBS News. The significant reductions and wholesale elimination of several key offices have heightened meaningful risks to U.S. national security, current and former officials said. “It is frustrating that someone who does not know the worth of what they’re breaking, breaks it,” a U.S. official who was laid off Friday told CBS News.The Trump administration cut 1,353 domestic State Department staffers on Friday, part of a long-planned effort to reorganize the agency…