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Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a civilian plane Sunday after it entered restricted airspace over President Trump’s property in Bedminster, New Jersey, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said, one of seven aircraft to violate the airspace over the weekend.Three civilian planes flew in the restricted airspace Saturday, and there were four more violations on Sunday, including one that was intercepted by fighter aircraft, NORAD said in a statement.Flares were deployed to get the pilot’s attention, NORAD said on social media, and the plane was safely escorted out of the area by NORAD aircraft.”The flares – which may have…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says “Alligator Alcatraz” will serve as a model for state-run migrant detention centers, and she told CBS News in an interview that she hopes to launch a handful of similar detention centers in multiple airports and jails across the country, in the coming months. Potential sites are already under consideration in Arizona, Nebraska and Louisiana. “The locations we’re looking at are right by airport runways that will help give us an efficiency that we’ve never had before,” Noem said, adding that she’s appealed directly to governors and state leaders nationwide to gauge their interest in contributing…

Boeing workers who build fighter jets are on strike, their union says.The walkout began at midnight Central Daylight Time.About 3,200 workers at Boeing facilities in St. Louis; St. Charles, Missouri; and Mascoutah, Illinois, voted to reject a modified four-year labor agreement with Boeing, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said Sunday. In a post on X, the union said, “3,200 highly-skilled IAM Union members at Boeing went on strike at midnight because enough is enough. This is about respect and dignity, not empty promises.”IAM District 837 members “deserve a contract that reflects their skill, dedication, and the critical…

When President Trump signed a law adding work requirements for some Medicaid recipients, he may have undercut lawmakers in at least 14 states who were designing their own plans, according to health industry observers.Georgia is the only state with a work requirement in place for Medicaid, but several states have been pursuing such a policy for years, only to be blocked by courts or, most recently, the Biden administration. Some seek state-specific touches to the new rules. Others aim to implement work requirements before the federal law takes effect at the end of 2026. These states’ moves and Mr. Trump’s massive…

The manhunt for a military veteran suspected of fatally shooting four people at a bar in Montana stretched into a fourth day Monday.Police are looking for Michael Paul Brown, 45, who is wanted for allegedly shooting the four inside The Owl Bar in the small town of Anaconda before fleeing in a white pickup, which he ditched at some point. But law enforcement now believes Brown ditched that vehicle and stole a different one that had camping gear, shoes and clothes in it.Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told reporters on Sunday that Brown was believed to still be armed and…

In a whirlwind of negotiations over three days, Democrats asked for multiple billions in government funds to be released in exchange for a vote on a batch of nominees President Trump wanted confirmed before lawmakers left for their August break, sources told CBS News.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was negotiating with GOP leadership for $5 billion for the National Institutes of Health, $1 billion for the Global Fund, $300 million for the World Food Program, $50 million to fight HIV in developing countries, about $140 million for the United Nations Children’s Fund, and other money funding that had been previously…

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Longtime Trump insider May Davis Mailman has departed the White House, sources told CBS News, making her the highest-ranking official to leave so far during the second term without being pushed out.Mailman’s last day as deputy assistant to the president and senior policy strategist was Friday, one of the sources said. But Mailman will become a special government employee to tie up loose ends on some of the policy work she’s been involved with, two of the sources said.She has told colleagues she is starting a government affairs firm, but has said she won’t take on clients related to a limited…

Democratic state legislators fled Texas on Sunday in an attempt to deny a quorum to Republicans hoping to vote on a new congressional map that heavily favors the GOP even more than current districts. “For two weeks, while families in the Hill Country mourned the loss of over 130 Texans in catastrophic floods, Democrats fought to make their relief the legislature’s top priority. Instead, Governor Abbott and Republican leadership used the tragedy as political cover,” Texas House Democrats said in a statement Sunday. “… Governor Abbott has turned the victims of a tragedy into political hostages in his submission to Donald Trump.…

Washington — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said Sunday that applications for a fund for rural hospitals will go out in “early September” in the wake of Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s signature piece of legislation passed by Congress last month.”We’re putting $50 billion. The president wants this, the Congress wants this,” Oz said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”Mr. Trump signed the so-called “big, beautiful bill” into law last month, which included a number of his second-term priorities from tax cuts to increased spending on border security, defense and energy production. The legislation…