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Noem hospitalized after allergic reaction Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hospitalized after allergic reaction 00:24 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported to a hospital on Tuesday due to an allergic reaction, the Department of Homeland Security said.Noem is “alert and recovering,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News. She was brought to a hospital “out of an abundance of caution.”The secretary was transported to George Washington University Hospital, sources told CBS News. She is accompanied by her security detail.A former South Dakota governor and U.S. representative, Noem, 53, leads an agency with over 260,000…

Another 2,000 California National Guard troops are being deployed to the Los Angeles area, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. It comes amid the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown in the region, which has sparked a series of at times contentious protests in downtown L.A. over the past few weeks.  U.S. Northern Command said in a statement that the troops were being activated under the Title 10 law, which President Trump previously invoked when he first announced on June 7 that he was deploying National Guard troops to L.A. in response to the demonstrations. The soldiers will “support the protection of…

The NAACP logo is shown during an event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 2015. The civil rights group has announced it won’t invite President Trump to address its convention, breaking a 116-year tradition of inviting sitting presidents. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images The NAACP logo is shown during an event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 2015. The civil rights group has announced it won’t invite President Trump to address its convention, breaking a 116-year tradition of inviting sitting presidents. Win McNamee/Getty Images The NAACP announced it will not invite…

Virginia Democrats on Tuesday picked former state lawmaker Chris Jones as the party’s attorney general nominee, as the party aims to retake control of state government in a nationally watched bellwether election later this year.Jones — who represented Norfolk in the House of Delegates — will defeat Shannon Taylor in the Democratic attorney general primary, The Associated Press projected. Jones will face off against Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares in November.The Democratic primary for lieutenant governor remains too early to call.The candidates for governor had been selected before Tuesday. Democrat Abigail Spanberger, whose candidacy thwarted prospective primary challengers, will go…

Bernie Sanders has sponsored an anti-war resolution in the Senate, while conservative Thomas Massie is doing the same in the House. Ad Policy Representatives Thomas Massie and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, two cosponsors of the House resolution against war with Iran.(Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images; Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) The members of Congress who put adherence to the United States Constitution ahead of presidential demands or elite partisan loyalties are uniting in an uncommon coalition to oppose deeper US involvement in the burgeoning conflict between Israel and Iran. How uncommon? On Monday, as President Trump was sending…

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Washington — President Trump has once again delayed the enforcement of a bipartisan law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. The law, designed as an effort to separate TikTok from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, has remained elusive. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday the president would sign the latest executive order this week delaying enforcement of the law for 90 days, marking the third delay in the law’s implementation since his inauguration in January. “As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. This extension will last 90 days, which the…

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,…