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An aerial view of shipping containers at the Port of Baltimore on Thursday. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has long sold his tariff plan as a new source of cash for the government. And with his recent moves, tariffs are adding tens of billions of new dollars to federal revenue. Last month, the Department of the Treasury brought in more than $29 billion in “customs and excise taxes” — a category that is overwhelmingly tariff revenue. This pace means that in just a few months, the government will be…

8/11: CBS Evening News Plus – CBS News Watch CBS News Trump says Russia and Ukraine will need to swap territory, Europe believes that would reward Putin; Reporter’s Notebook: Who actually pays tariffs? Source link

The Indian prime minister discovers that the world’s biggest bully sees fawning as weakness. Ad Policy President Donald Trump shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a joint press conference in New Delhi on February 25, 2020.(Prakash Singh / AFP via Getty Images) Donald Trump has created a new golden age of sycophancy. The White House now resembles Versailles under the absolutist monarchs or Beijing’s Forbidden City under the emperors. CEOs and foreign leaders are lining up to butter up the US president. On Thursday, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, presented Trump with exactly the sort of…

Three officials involved in President Trump’s controversial deployment of National Guard troops to respond to protests in Los Angeles testified in court on Monday, as the trial in California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit against the Trump administration begins.The question at issue is whether the military forces sent in by Mr. Trump — including members of the Marine Corps and National Guard — violated the 19th century Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the military from enforcing domestic laws.Newsom called the deployment of around 4,000 California National Guard troops, who normally are under the governor’s command, an illegal “power grab.” But Mr.…

8/11: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News Violent crime down 26% in D.C., but Trump says otherwise as he takes control of city’s police; Nonprofit working to train people for available manufacturing jobs Source link

President Trump plans to name conservative economist E.J. Antoni to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Trump fired the bureau’s previous leader after a disappointing jobs report. Jim Watson/AFP hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP President Trump plans to nominate conservative economist E.J. Antoni to lead one of the government’s top statistical agencies, 10 days after firing the previous chief over a disappointing jobs report. Antoni is an economist at the right-leaning Heritage Foundation. He previously worked for the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation. “Our Economy is booming, and E.J. will ensure that the Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE,”…

Huntington Park, California, a working-class community of more than 50,000 people, has recently felt like it has a bullseye on its back because of ramped-up raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The town is 95.6% Latino, and as many as 45% of the residents are undocumented, according to the city.City Council member Jonathan Sanabria, who grew up in Huntington Park, says the local community is scared. “We are a target for them because we know that they are stereotyping and they’re racially profiling us. And they’re targeting folks that look like me,” he said.Sanabria took a CBS News crew to Pacific Boulevard,…

Politics / August 11, 2025 Trump has put the nation’s capital under federal occupation. Ad Policy People participate in a rally against the Trump administration’s federal takeover of the District of Columbia on August 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) Washington, DC, already lacks representation in Congress, has no control over its own budget, and cannot pass laws free from congressional interference. Now, under the Trump administration, the city is moving toward bantustan status. By invoking bogus emergency powers under the DC Home Rule Act, President Donald Trump has effectively federalized law enforcement within the district, delegating…

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, killing a police officer. The 30-year-old suspect, identified as Patrick Joseph White, fired at least 180 shots, two people with direct knowledge of the investigative findings from the ongoing probe of the shooting told CBS News on Monday.White, who died during the incident, had also tried to get inside the CDC’s headquarters but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across…

Washington — President Trump said Monday that he expected to determine mere moments into his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week whether it would be possible to work out a deal to halt the war in Ukraine. “At the end of that meeting, probably the first two minutes, I’ll know exactly whether or not a deal can be made,” Mr. Trump said at a White House press conference where he announced plans for a federal takeover of Washington’s police force to help combat crime. He said he thought Friday’s sitdown with Putin in Alaska would be “really a…