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On some days, he left little trace of his activity, choosing instead to first turn on Mullvad. Virtual private networks, known as VPNs, route a user’s web traffic through encrypted tunnels, hiding their activity from prying eyes, such as a college’s web tracking security software. While Crooks was using Mullvad, his browsing history was effectively sealed off.Mullvad CEO Jan Jonsson told CBS News that the VPN service used by Crooks was designed to “provide anonymity, censorship circumvention and surveillance protection.””This sadly also means that if somebody abuses the service for nefarious purposes, we cannot block that individual user and unfortunately…

President Trump bangs a gavel after signing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the White House on July 4. Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images President Trump muscled a 900-page package through a closely divided Congress — and that might have been the easy part. The tax and policy bill, which Trump dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” encompasses much of his second-term agenda. Trump managed to sign it by his own deadline of the Fourth of July. “We had so much in there that no matter who you are, there…

A member of the Columbia University Board of Trustees is calling on the school to comply with the Trump administration’s demands regarding alleged antisemitism on campus and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. In a letter delivered Monday and obtained by CBS News, Dr. Shoshana Shendelman also demanded a formal apology from acting school President Claire Shipman and board co-chairs David Greenwald and Jeh Johnson.”The conduct which has been exhibited by Columbia leadership in recent months — particularly the failure to decisively address antisemitism on campus — demonstrates a disturbing lack of moral clarity and poses a significant threat to…

The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader Ad Policy Justin Sun, head of the Tron crypto exchange (L) talks with World Liberty Financial cofounder Zach Witkoff (C) and Eric Trump of the Trump Organization at a May crypto conference in Dubai(Giuseppe Cacace / AFP via Getty Images) On June 26, a Dubai-based company called Aqua 1 Foundation announced a $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the crypto company closely affiliated with the families of President Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration’s Middle East diplomatic envoy.…

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The State Department will begin layoffs as early as Friday as it seeks to cut the size of its U.S. workforce by about 15%, CBS News has learned — part of the Trump administration’s sweeping plan to reorganize the department.The cuts will include layoffs, or reductions-in-force (RIF), as well as voluntary departures by State Department staffers who took part in the Trump administration’s buyout programs, two senior State Department officials said Thursday. The department is also closing or merging scores of U.S.-based offices and rearranging its organizational chart shortly after.The total number of layoffs expected in the coming days will…

The Supreme Court Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday left in place a lower court decision that blocked part of a Florida law making it a crime for undocumented immigrants to cross into the state. The statute imposed various mandatory prison terms for violating the law. The high court’s action came in a one sentence order, without any elaboration and without any noted dissents. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state legislation into law in February, and just two months later the law made national headlines when Florida’s highway patrol…

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President Trump on Thursday threatened to impose 35% tariffs on goods from Canada starting next month, hiking import duties on one of the U.S.’s largest trading partners.The president announced the 35% tax in a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney posted to Truth Social, citing Canada’s alleged “failure to stop the drugs from pouring into our country,” as well as retaliatory tariffs Canada has imposed on U.S. goods. The new tariffs are set to take effect Aug. 1, the president said.The move is an escalation from the 25% tariffs on Canadian — and Mexican — imports announced by Mr.…

July 10, 2025 The Constitution, properly interpreted, protects workers. But the Trump administration isn’t going to enforce those protections unless labor fights for them. Ad Policy Members of the International Association of Machinists walking the picket line on Friday, May 23, 2025. In Thornhill v. Alabama, the Court held that picketing is an “indispensable” right.(Jim Michaud / Connecticut Post via Getty Images) Over the past half century, the Supreme Court has continually twisted the Constitution into a document that is implacably hostile to workers. In 2020, a conservative majority on the court used the Fifth Amendment to strike down a…