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Balmedie, Scotland — President Trump is due to arrive in Scotland Friday for a four-day private trip — his first to the U.K since he was re-elected. The White House says he’ll meet during his visit with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss trade, but he’ll also be opening a brand-new course at the Trump International Golf Links. Set on Scotland’s rugged northeast coast, it’s a stunningly beautiful location, and it’s easy to see why Mr. Trump was keen to purchase the site more than a decade ago and develop it into a world-class golf club.But as CBS News learned from…

The extreme heat that has baked much of the central United States this week is shifting east ahead of the weekend, forecasters said. More than 100 million Americans are under heat alerts that will remain in effect through Tuesday night.The extreme heat arrives along the East Coast Friday and will stick around through the weekend and the first half of next week. Parts of the Midwest, including the Corn Belt, have felt the high temperatures for multiple days.  Map shows areas under heat alerts on Friday, July 25, 2025. CBS News Temperatures on Friday are forecast to be 10 to…

A new provision in President Trump’s signature domestic policy legislation is causing uproar among professional poker players, who will face higher tax payments when they lose. Getty Images/Photo illustration by Emily Bogle/NPR hide caption toggle caption Getty Images/Photo illustration by Emily Bogle/NPR President Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill into law in early July, in the middle of the biggest poker tournament in the world. Card players there said they want to royally flush one of its tax provisions down the drain. “As I walk around the poker tables, I definitely hear it from the players – they’re concerned,”…

San Diego — The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps and a new timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches, officials from both countries announced Thursday.Billions of gallons of sewage and toxic chemicals from Tijuana have polluted the Pacific Ocean off neighboring Southern California, closing beaches and sickening Navy SEALs who train in the water. That’s despite multiple efforts and millions of dollars that have been poured into addressing the problem over decades, including under the first Trump administration. “There is a…

7/24: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News Trump and Powell clash during tour of Federal Reserve renovations; What happens when the USPS can’t decipher an address? Source link

President Trump took time to tour the headquarters of the Federal Reserve on Thursday — part of a pressure campaign on its chair Jerome Powell. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump just got an unusual tour. He donned a hard hat and walked through the headquarters of the Federal Reserve here in Washington. His tour guide – none other than Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, who Trump has been raging against for weeks.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And he’s got it wrong. That’s why I call him too late – T O O, too late.KELLY: Trump has also taken issue…

Washington — President Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had a disagreement almost immediately as the two men set foot in the Fed’s headquarters in Washington on Thursday to survey an extensive renovation project on two of the reserve’s buildings. Last week, Mr. Trump indicated that Powell’s handling of the massive project and its cost overruns could be grounds for firing. But on Thursday, Mr. Trump said he doesn’t think firing Powell is necessary.  President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell tour the Federal Reserve’s $2.5 billion headquarters renovation project on July 24, 2025 in Washington, DC.  Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images…

The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against New York City, challenging its sanctuary city laws.It comes less than a week after an off-duty Customs and Border Patrol officer was shot in Manhattan by an undocumented immigrant. On Thursday, the DOJ charged two suspects, alleging they are Dominican Republic nationals in the U.S. illegally. Police sources told CBS News New York the NYPD believes the suspects to be associates of the Trinitarios gang.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan were furious after the shooting, with Homan promising to “flood the zone” with immigration agents to go after undocumented…

How a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health. Ad Policy Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a roundtable discussion on soil health in the Mike Mansfield Room at the US Capitol on July 15, 2025(Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images) Stick with me. How does a 40-plus-year crusade by a virulently anti-gay, racist physician in Texas—one who hawks quack cures and was charged in 2022 with aggravated robbery and organized criminal activity in a bizarre and fake election dispute—end up endangering access to mammograms,…

Three fired Justice Department officials filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday, after they were part of a wave of terminations from the agency earlier this summer.The plaintiffs in Thursday’s suit include Michael Gordon, a longtime federal prosecutor who also handled January 6 cases. He was fired last month while handling a high-level fraud case against a Florida man accused of fleecing children with special needs out of millions of dollars. The lawsuit says the firing “came as a particular shock” to Gordon because he was picked to help lead that case, and he was “personally congratulated”…