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Ahead of Memorial Day, President Trump has repeatedly taken credit for an upswing in military recruitment, claiming almost no one wanted to join the military before news of his reelection.”After years of military recruiting shortfalls, enlistments in the U.S. armed forces are now the highest in 30 years because there is such an incredible spirit in the United States of America,” the president said last week in Riyadh.In reality, military records show enlistments began rebounding from a pandemic slump long before Election Day. While numbers have continued to rise under Mr. Trump, experts say the so-called “Trump Bump”—a term used…

Demonstrators raise signs during a rally outside the National Institutes of Health on May 10, 2025 in Bethesda, Maryland. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images North America A federal judge in San Francisco has indefinitely paused President Trump’s sweeping overhaul of the federal government. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston issued the preliminary injunction late Thursday, nearly two weeks after temporarily halting Trump’s Feb. 11 executive order directing agencies to shut down offices and lay off thousands of people. A coalition of labor unions, nonprofits and local governments had sued to block that executive order…

Camden, Del. — Thousands of chicks found abandoned inside a postal service truck for three days have gone to new homes, according to the Delaware shelter that had cared for them, with the last batch picked up on Thursday morning.All the surviving chickens – estimated as more than 5,000 – it was too hard to get a specific count – and some others like turkeys and quails were adopted mainly by local families, rescues and farms, according to First State Animal Center and SPCA. The chicks were part of a 12,000-bird shipment left unattended in a truck at a Delaware…

The charges against McIver are a form of political intimidation directed with particular force against Black politicians—but it will work only if the people don’t have her back. Ad Policy Representative LaMonica McIver demands the release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest while protesting outside an ICE detention prison, Friday, May 9, 2025. She was herself later charged by the Trump Department of Justice.(Angelina Katsanis / AP Photo) It’s become clear that the most dangerous thing for a public official to do during the Trump administration—other than fly out of Newark—is to try to get ICE to follow…

Arlington, Virginia — Soldiers of the U.S. Army’s Old Guard are taking on intensive drills as they prepare to resume next month their sacred and solemn duty of using horse-drawn caissons, or carriages, for servicemembers being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. These horse-drawn funerals were suspended by the Army in May 2023 following the deaths of two of the horses within a 96-hour period back in February 2022, prompting an Army investigation. As CBS News previously reported, other horses pulling the caissons were also suffering painful muscle and tendon injuries. At the time, the Army said that 27 Arlington horses…

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The federal government wants states to turn over data about tens of millions of people who received food assistance benefits since 2020. A new lawsuit challenges that data request. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images A new lawsuit filed Thursday says the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s demand for sensitive data about millions of food assistance recipients violates federal privacy laws. Meanwhile some states are preparing to comply with the unprecedented request which could be used to achieve Trump administration priorities, such as immigration enforcement. In new guidance issued earlier this month, the USDA told states they…

A Georgia teenager who was detained by federal deportation officers following local traffic charges that have since been dismissed was released from immigration custody late Thursday, her attorney and mother confirmed to CBS News.Ximena Arias Cristobal, 19, was released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement one day after an immigration judge granted her bond. She was picked up by family friends at an ICE detention facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, and will return to Dalton, Georgia — where she lives with her family — in the overnight hours, Arias Cristobal’s mother said. Her mother said she was able to see Arias Cristobal…

The Nebraska city swung by 43 points to elect John Ewing Jr. Democrats should study the model he embraced. Ad Policy Jane Kleeb, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, speaks at the “Win With Workers” Rally and Press Conference at the DNC Midwestern Candidate Forum on January 16, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan.(Aaron J. Thornton / One Fair Wage via Getty Images) This article was originally published at The Guardian and is republished here with permission. For the last several months, the Trump administration’s reckless use of executive power, trade policy, gutting federal agencies and defying court orders has gone largely…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s airport screening program has detected multiple cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, which has been linked to a large surge of the virus in China. Cases linked to the NB.1.8.1 variant have been reported in arriving international travelers at airports in California, Washington state, Virginia and the New York City area, according to records uploaded by the CDC’s airport testing partner Ginkgo Bioworks.Details about the sequencing results, which were published in recent weeks on the GISAID, or Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data, virus database, show the cases stem from travelers from…