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A look at Elon Musk and DOGE’s first 100 days A look at Elon Musk and DOGE’s first 100 days 08:19 Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been publishing every contract, grant and lease it claims to have canceled on its website for months.But DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” can’t be searched, and its data can’t be downloaded easily by those without programming knowledge. CBS News is publishing all the data available on DOGE’s website in a searchable and savable format below. This page will refresh every morning at approximately 7 a.m. EST, but DOGE does not update its data…

As the world waits to to see if he shows up in Turkey for cease-fire negotiations this week, President Vladimir V. Putin has been sending a clear message, reinforced by his officials. Russia is winning on the battlefield, so it should get what it wants.Mr. Putin said in late March that Russian forces had the advantage on the entire front and suggested Moscow was close to vanquishing the Ukrainians — an argument the Kremlin has used to underpin hardball demands. “We have reason to believe that we are set to finish them off,” Mr. Putin said, adding: “People in Ukraine…

The White House announced on Tuesday that President Trump had secured $600 billion in business deals with the Saudi government and companies during the first stage of his Middle East tour, though a list of the agreements the administration released totaled less than half that amount and several were already in the works before the president took office.The list of some of the agreements published by the White House left many details vague. The value of the agreements appeared to total about $283 billion. It was unclear whether the sums had already been committed or whether the funding was new.…

The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common ones.The Biden administration set the first federal drinking water limits for PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, finding they increased the risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and babies being born with low birth weight. Those limits were expected to reduce PFAS levels in drinking water for millions of people.Commonly called “forever chemicals,” PFAS are found nearly everywhere — in air, water, and soil — and can take thousands of years to break…

President Trump meets with Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on March 14, 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Royal Palace/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption Saudi Royal Palace/AP/AP RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Trump met Wednesday with Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa after announcing he would lift U.S. sanctions against Syria, a move celebrated in a country trying to rebuild after more than a decade of civil war and international isolation. Trump told reporters that Sharaa was a “young, attractive guy — tough guy” with a “strong past” but said he thought the former rebel fighter had an opportunity to stabilize…

Gov. Gavin Newsom will call Wednesday for California to scale back health care for undocumented immigrants to help balance the state budget, retrenching on his desire to deliver “universal health care for all.”The move comes days after the Trump administration targeted a different state-funded program for immigrants in California and signaled that it would continue to scrutinize benefits for undocumented individuals.In a budget presentation on Wednesday, Mr. Newsom will propose freezing enrollment of undocumented adults in the state’s version of Medicaid, known as Medi-Cal, as soon as January. He also will seek to charge those who remain in the program…

President Trump met Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, highlighting the stunning reversal in fortunes for a former Islamist militant with ties to al Qaeda who spent years with a U.S. government bounty on his head. Al-Sharaa’s rebel forces led the charge on Damascus last year that toppled the decades-long, iron-fisted rule of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and he has since installed himself as the head of a government presenting itself to the world as inclusive and democratic.Mr. Trump’s decision to meet with al-Sharaa, after some European leaders have done the same, could be a huge…

French politics are rarely predictable—and today is no exception. Ahead of the next presidential election, not only is incumbent Emmanuel Macron barred from running, but longtime poll leader Marine Le Pen has also been ruled ineligible after an embezzlement conviction this past March 31.For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the head of the left-wing France Insoumise, the hope is that this turmoil can change France’s political direction and the country will break out of a binary contest between the neoliberal center and a rising far right. The scale of protests against Macron’s recent pension reforms and then the New Popular Front’s breakthrough in…

As he called to order a marathon committee session to consider Medicaid cuts and other critical pieces of Republicans’ sweeping domestic policy bill, Representative Brett Guthrie of Kentucky surveyed a packed hearing room on Tuesday afternoon and asked for a respectful debate.“I know we have deep feelings on these issues, and we may not all agree on everything,” said Mr. Guthrie, a Republican who is in his first term as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.It was not to be.Minutes later, a group of protesters in the back of the Capitol Hill hearing room began shouting at lawmakers…

Flash floods sparked by heavy rain hit parts of Virginia, western Maryland and Pennsylvania on Tuesday, leaving a 12-year-old boy missing in Virginia and forcing elementary schools in rural Maryland to evacuate, authorities said. Severe flooding has left parts of Meyersdale Borough in Somerset County underwater after heavy rains pounded the area on Tuesday.In a message posted Tuesday night on social media, the Albemarle County Fire Rescue service in Virginia said county police had received a call late in the afternoon about a boy being swept away by a flood-swollen creek. The fire department said search efforts had to be…