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Shira Perlmutter, register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, was appointed to the position by the Librarian of Congress in 2020. Mariam Zuhaib/AP hide caption toggle caption Mariam Zuhaib/AP Shira Perlmutter, the fired head of the U.S. Copyright Office, has sued the Trump administration, claiming that her removal was “unlawful and ineffective.” The U.S Copyright Office registers copyright claims and helps inform Congress about copyright policies. In 2020, Carla Hayden, then Librarian of Congress, appointed Perlmutter to head the office. Earlier this month, President Trump fired Hayden, whose 10-year term was about to expire next year, via…

Harvard University is challenging the Trump administration’s decision to bar the Ivy League school from enrolling foreign students, calling it unconstitutional retaliation for defying the White House’s political demands. It is the school’s second suit against the Trump administration. In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Boston, Harvard said the government’s action violates the First Amendment and will have an “immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders.” “With the stroke of a pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard’s student body, international students who contribute significantly to the University…

In a move that will have major impact in New York, California, and Texas, the two agencies recently agreed to work together in ways that threaten thousands of Americans. Ad Policy A low-income housing project sits behind roadwork being done on I-287 in the Bronx in 2022. (Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images) On Tuesday, (May 20) housing justice groups including People’s Action, VOCAL-NY, Texas Organizing Project, Arkansas Community Organization and others rallied in DC—and in more than a dozen communities from Duluth to Akron to Tucson—in defense of federal housing assistance. At a time when close to 800,000 Americans are…

The Trump administration has launched an operation to terminate the immigration court cases of certain migrants, in order to arrest them and place them in a fast-tracked deportation process instead, government officials and attorneys told CBS News.Lawyers and advocates this week reported arrests of migrants outside of immigration courthouses across the U.S., saying teams of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had detained individuals whose cases in front of immigration judges had just been terminated at the request of the government. Two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News that ICE is conducting an operation to expedite the deportation of migrants…

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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