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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as Education Secretary Linda McMahon listens during a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP WASHINGTON — The White House will fix errors in a much-anticipated federal government report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which decried America’s food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs. Kennedy’s wide-ranging “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by…

One or more unknown people accessed White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’ personal cellphone and used her contacts file to reach out to other top officials and impersonate her, sources told CBS News Thursday.Some of the recipients realized the messages were suspicious because the texts and calls came from an unknown number, sources said, and the impersonator or impersonators asked if the conversations could be continued in another platform, such as Telegram.The suspicious messages hit in-boxes over an unknown period of time, sources said.  Wiles explained to people that her phone had been hacked, sources told CBS News.  …

May 29, 2025 The Trump administration’s funding cuts and attacks on public education are just the beginning. Ad Policy Protesters stage a “study-in” in front of the Department of Education on March 21, 2025.(Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images) Burn it down. That’s what appears to be the guiding strategy of the Trump administration—particularly when it comes to education. Cancel the grants and contracts. Fire the employees. Shred the mission statement. Close the department. In the coming months and years, however, our understanding of the story is likely to change. When we look back at what happened after the administration cut…

The Trump administration is shaking up Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership amid continued frustrations within the White House about the level of immigration arrests and deportations conducted by the agency, officials announced Thursday.Kenneth Genalo will no longer lead Enforcement and Removal Operations, the ICE branch tasked with carrying out arrests and deportations. Genalo, a longtime ICE official, is retiring and plans to advise agency leaders as a special government employee, officials said.ERO has been spearheading the Trump administration’s aggressive and government-wide campaign to ramp up efforts to locate, arrest and deport unauthorized migrants across the country.Meanwhile, Robert Hammer, the head…

Washington — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday temporarily halted a federal trade court’s decision blocking most of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, for now reinstating the levies imposed by the president under an emergency powers law.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in a brief order that it would grant the Trump administration’s request for an immediate administrative stay “to the extent that the judgments and the permanent injunctions entered by the Court of International Trade in these cases are temporarily stayed” for now. A three-judge panel on the trade court unanimously ruled Wednesday that…

A new analysis of voting patterns in the last election suggests that the party is woefully unprepared for the path forward. Ad Policy A campaign sign for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz outside a polling location in 2024 in Arlington, Virginia.(Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) Any forward pivot in American politics usually involves a fretful look backward, and as the Trumpian GOP sizes up prospects for the 2026 midterms, a new breakdown of the failures of the Democratic Party over the 2024 election cycle has materialized. On Monday, the Democratic polling group Catalist released its in-depth analysis of the 2024…

The U.S. and Israel are waiting for Hamas to respond to a 60-day Gaza ceasefire proposal, the White House said Thursday.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Israel signed off on a proposal that special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump submitted, and it’s been sent to Hamas. An Israeli official and a U.S. source familiar confirmed the proposed deal includes not only the 60-day ceasefire but also plans to release 10 living hostages and the remains of 18 dead hostages. The U.S. source added that “aid will flow.” “I can confirm that special envoy Witkoff and the president submitted a ceasefire proposal…

Elon Musk announced Wednesday night that his time as a “special government employee” with the Trump administration is winding down. But that doesn’t mean he’s leaving President Trump’s circle. “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President [Trump] for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” Musk wrote on X. He added that his Department of Government Efficiency’s “mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”Musk, a billionaire entrepreneur, was set to begin his offboarding process with the White House on Wednesday night, according to…

President John Tyler, circa 1860-1865. His last surviving grandchild, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, died on Sunday. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hulton Archive/Getty Images The last living grandson of President John Tyler — who left the White House in 1845 — has died. Harrison Ruffin Tyler died Sunday at 96, according to Annique Dunning, executive director of Sherwood Forest, the Virginia property that members of the Tyler family have called home since the end of its patriarch’s presidency. Tyler had suffered strokes in recent years and died of natural causes, she said. Tyler led a successful career as a…

Latest on Harvard foreign student case Trump administration signals Harvard has more time to respond in international student case 03:29 A federal judge in Massachusetts said Thursday that she plans to grant a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from revoking Harvard University’s ability to have international students.U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said in a hearing Thursday that she plans to issue the preliminary injunction Harvard requested, and extended a temporary restraining order that prohibits the administration from following through on its threat. Harvard is trying to stop the Trump administration’s effort to restrict foreign students from enrolling and attending, at…