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7/1: CBS Evening News Plus – CBS News Watch CBS News The biggest challenges facing Senate spending bill’s passage in House; Reporter’s Notebook: When politicians cry wolf on fiscal restraint Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

6/29: Face the Nation – CBS News Watch CBS News This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Democratic Sen. Mark Warner joins as President Trump turns his attention to his “one big, beautiful bill.” Plus, taking a look at what comes next for Iran with the head of the IAEA, the watchdog agency who monitors nuclear capabilities in Iran, Rafael Mariano Grossi, and Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Amir-Saeid Iravani. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

California Attorney General Rob Bonta at a news conference in San Francisco on Dec. 4, 2024. Bonta is leading 20 state attorneys general in a lawsuit seeking to block federal health officials from further sharing Medicaid data and DHS from using it for immigration enforcement. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP Twenty states, led by California, said Tuesday they are suing the Trump administration after federal health officials shared sensitive data about Medicaid recipients with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration enforcement. “The Trump Administration has upended longstanding privacy protections with its decision to illegally share…

Energy reality is at long last dawning in Sacramento as looming refinery closures threaten gasoline shortages and price spikes. Too bad Democrats care more about doing political damage control than improving the state’s business climate.Democratic state Senators have introduced legislation they are deceptively advertising as refinery permitting reform. Valero Energy and Phillips 66 plan to shut down two large refineries in the state owing to California’s hostile regulation. This will mean a 20% decline in the state’s refining capacity.Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Source link

The Senate bill containing President Trump’s domestic policy agenda at the last minute eliminated a new excise tax that would have hammered the renewable energy industry, a move that likely ensured Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska would back the measure. The excise tax would have been imposed on wind and solar energy projects constructed with a certain percentage of materials sourced from prohibited foreign countries, like China. Consumers would see their energy prices rise by around 8% to 10%, and the provision would have cost clean energy businesses an additional $4-$7 billion by 2036, according to an analysis by the…

The Republican senator dropped his reelection bid rather than lie about the devastating damage Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will do to Medicaid. Ad Policy Thom Tillis (R-NC) takes the elevator at the US Capitol on June 30, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Alex Wong / Getty Images) Thom Tillis, the former speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives who since 2015 has served as a modestly responsible Republican in the US Senate, faced a challenge. The Trump White House was ramping up pressure on Congress to enact the dangerous agenda contained in what the president has dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill.”…

Washington — The House is planning to vote on the Senate-passed version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” as soon as Wednesday morning, though a sizable contingent of Republican critics could still sink the legislation. The measure narrowly survived the Senate after a marathon session ended with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote Tuesday. The House Rules Committee was quick to take up the legislation Tuesday afternoon, hoping to tee it up for a vote on the House floor by the morning. But first GOP leaders will have to win over Republicans who are opposed to the changes the Senate made…

Bryan Kohberger has accepted a plea deal that will spare him the death penalty in the slayings of four University of Idaho students in November 2022, according to a letter sent to the victims’ families by prosecutors.Kohberger is charged with four counts of murder in the stabbings of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, who were killed at a home in Moscow, Idaho, during the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022.In the letter, portions of which were shown to CBS News by Mogen’s father, Ben Mogen, the Latah County Prosecutor’s Office says attorneys for Kohberger requested a plea…

The Senate side of the U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, D.C., early Monday, June 30, 2025, ahead of a final vote on President Trump’s signature domestic policy bill. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP Senate Republicans have passed President Trump’s signature domestic policy bill, setting the stage for a final vote in the House on legislation that would cut trillions of dollars in taxes while scaling back spending on Medicaid, food assistance and clean energy programs. The final vote was 51-50 with Vice President JD Vance breaking a tie. Three Republicans broke ranks and voted…

The Trump administration recently transferred immigration detainees from countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean to detention facilities at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, dramatically expanding the nationalities of those held there, internal U.S. government records obtained by CBS News show.As of earlier this week, Guantanamo Bay’s immigration detainees — who are detained separately from the terrorism suspects also held at the U.S. military base — included nationals of China, Jamaica, Liberia and the United Kingdom, according to the federal documents.Two U.S. officials said most of those detained at the base are considered to be “high-risk” detainees,…