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Mamdani won a record-setting primary victory, and unions, grassroots Democratic groups, and savvy elected officials are rushing to back him. Now it’s the establishment’s turn. Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, participates in an endorsement event with Representative Adriano Espaillat at the United Palace Theater in Manhattan on July 10, 2025.(Kyle Mazza / Anadolu via Getty Images) Zohran Mamdani did not just win the New York City Democratic mayoral primary convincingly enough that his chief rival, former governor Andrew Cuomo, conceded immediately on the night of the June 24 election. Now, two weeks later,…

President Trump on Saturday announced he is levying 30% tariffs against Mexico and the European Union. They are set to begin on August 1.He announced the tariffs on two of the United States’ biggest trade partners in letters posted on this Truth Social account.In his letter to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the country has helped stem the flow of undocumented migrants and fentanyl into the U.S. But he said the country has not done enough to stop North America from turning into a “Narco-Trafficking Playground.””Mexico has been helping me secure the border, BUT, what Mexico has…

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that he would impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States if President Donald Trump follows through on a pledge to boost import taxes by 50% over the South American country’s criminal trial against his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.Lula said he would trigger Brazil’s reciprocity law approved by Congress earlier this year if negotiations with the U.S. fail.”If there’s no negotiation, the reciprocity law will be put to work. If he charges 50 (% tariffs) from us, we will charge 50 from them,” Lula told TV Record in excerpts of an interview that…

President Trump’s trade policy has been unpredictable, and that continues with letters he’s been writing to foreign leaders informing them of the tariff rates he intends to impose on their countries’ goods on Aug. 1. The letters represent a radical approach to trade policy, with the president setting sizable tariff rates on a growing list of countries. They also do not create policy certainty; Trump himself at one point said that Aug. 1 is “not 100% firm,” only to backtrack a day later. The letters also leave room for negotiation, telling countries that the new rates could be lowered if…

Global backlash grows to Trump’s tariff threats – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump on Thursday threatened to impose a 35% tariff on Canadian goods beginning Aug. 1. Mr. Trump’s latest salvo came after he also threatened tariffs on a number of other countries earlier in the week, including Japan and South Korea. Kelly O’Grady looks at how other nations are reacting. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

The Epstein scandal deserves a real investigation, not Trump’s hand-waving cover up. Ad Policy A group of young protesters holds pictures of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump outside the Federal Court in downtown Manhattan on July 8, 2019.(Luiz C. Ribeiro / New York Daily News / Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Donald Trump is alarmingly disengaged from reality—and never more so than when he is asked about his close friend the late Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019 while in jail awaiting trial for trafficking children for sex. Trump was asked about Epstein this Tuesday, during a televised cabinet…

7/11: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News Trump surveys deadly storm damage in Texas; Reflecting on the selfless heroism shown during the Texas floods Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

Laurel, Maryland — It was almost one year ago that 20-year-old Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate President Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, an incident which prompted several investigations into the U.S. Secret Service’s actions and procedures on that day. Prior to the shooting on July 13, 2024, Crooks flew his own commercial drone for 11 minutes above the Butler campaign rally site, but the Secret Service missed it. This week, CBS News was taken inside the Secret Service’s James J. Rowley Training Center in Laurel, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., to see the agency’s newest eyes in…

David Gergen answers a reporter’s question in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on June 7, 1993. Doug Mills/AP hide caption toggle caption Doug Mills/AP David Gergen, a veteran of Washington politics and an adviser to four presidents in a career spanning decades in government, academia and media, has died. He was 83. Gergen worked in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Over the years, he served as a speechwriter, communications director and counselor to the president, among other roles. Dean Jeremy Weinstein of the Harvard Kennedy School, with which…

Federal immigration authorities said Friday they arrested about 200 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally in raids a day earlier on two California cannabis farm sites. Protesters engaged in a tense standoff with authorities during an operation at one of the farms. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that authorities executed criminal search warrants in Carpinteria and Camarillo, California, on Thursday. They arrested immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally, and there were also at least 10 immigrant children on site, the statement said.Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection were both part…