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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…

July 11, 2025 Here we are, once again learning that the restraints Americans could rely upon in the past are fast disappearing. Ad Policy Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli American Council National Summit at the Washington Hilton on September 19, 2024, in Washington, DC.(Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. “I must say,” Donald Trump commented, “I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in…

From the archives: David Gergen on leadership – CBS News Watch CBS News David Gergen, who had long served as an advisor to presidents of both parties, died on Thursday, July 10, 2025 at the age of 83. In this “Sunday Morning” interview that originally aired May 8, 2022, Gergen told CBS News’ Robert Acosta he believed the older generation running Washington should step aside for younger leadership. He also discussed his book, “Hearts Touched With Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made,” and about the current state of American democracy. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking…

Protesters, federal agents clash after immigration raid on California cannabis farm – CBS News Watch CBS News As workers were being detained during an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Southern California on Thursday, federal agents fired tear gas and tossed smoke bombs to disperse a crowd of protesters who formed outside the farm. Carter Evans has the latest. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link