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Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., walks to the Senate chambers on Tuesday to deliver his first remarks on the Senate floor since he was forcefully removed from a DHS press conference last week. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to emotionally describe the moments that led to him being forcefully removed from a news conference last week focused on the Trump administration’s response to the immigration protests in Los Angeles. Padilla was in the same Los Angeles federal building last Thursday where Department of Homeland Security…

The Justice Department lost 4,000 employees in the Trump administration’s controversial government downsizing initiative, and critics worry those cuts will impact safety in U.S. communities. The so-called “fork in the road” deferred resignation program, which incentivized some employees to leave federal government service, reduced the manpower in the agency for an estimated savings of $470 million, according to a department budget summary reviewed by CBS News. Further reductions are planned, according to the summary, including 1,500 positions to be eliminated in the FBI. More than 700 vacant FBI agent positions are to be part of those cuts.The reductions have been championed by…

Our government spent almost a decade chasing a professor they thought was a spy. The case raises questions about our ability to pursue real perpetrators of China’s crimes. Ad Policy Shujun Wang on 60 Minutes.(YouTube) On May 18, viewers of 60 Minutes were promised a show that would reveal the depths of Chinese surveillance in the United States. One lengthy segment dedicated its time to the case of Wang Shujun: an elderly historian who was convicted last year in the US of secretly passing information to the Chinese security state. Anchor Norah O’Donnell used Wang, who is an American citizen,…

New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested Tuesday at immigration court in Manhattan. Lander’s office said he was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while observing court, where he asked for a judicial warrant in a particular case.”While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing and we are monitoring the situation closely,” Lander’s campaign spokesperson, Dora Pekec, said in a statement.A U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Lander was arrested for assaulting law…

Fifty-five attorneys general around the country have now signed on to a $7.4 billion settlement with drugmaker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, over the opioid crisis, officials said.Fifteen states initially agreed to the settlement in January. Since then, an additional 34 states, five territories and Washington, D.C., joined the settlement, according to details released Monday by attorneys general involved in the case. Oklahoma reached a separate $270 million settlement in 2019.If the settlement is approved in court, it would end the Sacklers’ control of Purdue, maker of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, and block the family from selling…

Apple Store in Shanghai, China. Paul Souders/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paul Souders/Getty Images This is Part 4 in our Planet Money newsletter series on manufacturing and America. Part 1 asked why Americans aren’t filling the manufacturing jobs that are already here. Part 2 dived deep into economic research that finds that manufacturing jobs pay a higher premium than many other industries. Part 3 asked whether manufacturing-based economic development could help America’s heartland catch up with its major cities. Subscribe here for the next installment. As always, our podcast is here. Planeloads of some of America’s best engineers flying…

Washington — The Senate is moving toward final passage on a landmark piece of legislation to regulate crypto after a bumpy path through the upper chamber. The bill, known as the GENIUS Act, would establish a regulatory framework for the $250 billion market for stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency tied to the value of an asset like the U.S. dollar.  It advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee in March with bipartisan backing, but bled Democratic support weeks later when it was revealed that an Abu Dhabi-backed firm would use $2 billion in stablecoin purchased from Trump family-linked crypto firm, World…

Andrei Grachev, an early booster of a Trump crypto offering, has cycled through several alleged investment scams and was convicted on fraud charges in Russia. Ad Policy World Liberty Financial’s website touts WLF1, its Trump-sanctioned “governance token.”(Gabby Jones / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Last year, President Donald Trump and his sons teamed with the crypto investment firm World Liberty Financial (WLF) to promote a Trump-approved token. The sale started with a trickle, but after prominent crypto figures like Tron founder Justin Sun poured in $75 million, a stampede ensued among crypto backers keen to exploit even a passing connection to…

There’s a whole list of factors that go into keeping a city running smoothly, not least of which is local leadership. In times of turmoil — whether it’s a natural disaster, economic crisis or public health issue — Americans turn to their community leaders for answers. But what exactly sets certain places apart?A new study from financial site WalletHub seeks to answer that question by analyzing data for 148 of the nation’s largest cities.To determine its rankings, WalletHub looked at dozens of metrics that represent a city’s “quality of services” across public finances, education, health, safety, infrastructure and more. After…

President Trump says he wants “a real end” to Iran’s nuclear problem, with Tehran abandoning it “entirely,” and not just a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.Speaking on Air Force One after cutting short his time at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies, Mr. Trump told reporters, including CBS News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs that, “I didn’t say I was looking for a ceasefire.”Earlier, the president said on his Truth Social platform that, “Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on…