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July 2, 2025 With Trump’s antitrust appointees more concerned with scoring points in MAGA culture wars than restraining corporate abuses, officials in the states are keeping up the fight. Ad Policy Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks at a canvass launch on November 2, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Mario Tama / Getty Images) Since Donald Trump took office in January, state officials who enforce laws around corporate power have been looking for signs about what kind of partners they can expect at the federal anti-monopoly agencies. Federal enforcers during the Biden administration teamed up with their state counterparts on major…

Washington — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Trump’s plan to sharply restrict access to the nation’s asylum system, a blow to the president’s sweeping crackdown on immigration into the United States.U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled in favor of 13 individuals seeking asylum in the U.S. and three immigrants’ rights groups who argued that a proclamation signed by Mr. Trump on his first day back in office — which has been a pillar of his immigration agenda — is unlawful. In his decision, Moss ruled that neither the Immigration and Nationality Act nor the Constitution give the president and…

Washington — House Republican leaders are scrambling to shore up support for President Trump’s massive domestic policy bill amid pushback to the Senate’s changes as the GOP seeks to approve the final version of the legislation ahead of a July 4 deadline to get the bill to the president’s desk. As the House convened Wednesday to take up the bill, which squeaked through the Senate a day earlier, it remained unclear if House Republicans have enough support to get it over the finish line. House GOP leaders planned to forge ahead quickly on the signature legislation of Mr. Trump’s second-term agenda, which includes ramped-up spending…

President Trump attends a press conference in Hanoi on Nov. 12, 2017, during his first term in office. Luong Thai Linh/AFP Contributor/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Luong Thai Linh/AFP Contributor/AFP via Getty Images President Trump says the U.S. has made a trade deal with Vietnam as part of his push to renegotiate tariffs with dozens of different countries around the world. It comes as the president’s self-imposed deadline for those tariff negotiations is just a week away. In a social media post, Trump said tariffs will now be 20% on goods from Vietnam and 40% on goods…

Sean “Diddy” Combs was found guilty Wednesday of transportation to engage in prostitution in his federal trial in New York, but the music mogul was acquitted of the more severe charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.Combs was convicted of two counts of the prostitution-related charge. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Prosecutors said they’d be seeking a lengthy prison sentence for Combs on the two convictions. When the verdict was announced, Combs turned around, kneeled down on the ground, put his hands on his chair and prayed. He and his family erupted in loud…

Andrew Cuomo’s allies spent a fortune shouting that Zohran Mamdani is a socialist. Result? A Mamdani landslide in the Democratic primary. Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani attends the 2025 New York City Pride March on June 29, 2025.(Noam Galai / Getty Images) Fifty-six percent of New Yorkers supported a democratic socialist for the Democratic Party’s nomination to lead the nation’s largest city, according to New York City’s ranked choice voting tabulation. The results, which were released Tuesday, gave Zohran Mamdani a resounding 56-44 victory over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, confirming that Mamdani’s campaign had upended not only the calculus…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has selected a new headquarters building in Washington, D.C., after nearly two decades of failed attempts to find a permanent new space, the Bureau announced on Tuesday.The FBI has been headquartered in downtown D.C. at the J. Edgar Hoover building since 1975 but structural problems have plagued the building for the last 20 years, leading to redevelopment and relocation projects that until Thursday had not successfully been resolved.”This is a historic moment for the FBI,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement, adding he is “ushering FBI Headquarters into a new era and providing…

Small businesses facing higher import costs because of steeper U.S. tariffs are having to find different ways of handling the added expense.Facing hefty tariffs on parts shipped from China, one small business owner took the hit by redeeming over 1.8 million reward points on his American Express card. Robert Keeley, owner of Keeley Electronics, a roughly 33-person guitar pedal company in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, told CBS MoneyWatch he used the points, rather than cash, to cover the tariffs. That unusual approach, first reported by Bloomberg, highlights the challenges many smaller enterprises are facing in coping with higher import duties. Keeley’s operation makes…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., center, joined from left by, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks after Senate passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill.” Millions are estimated to lose health care if the bill becomes law. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, threatening the physical and financial health of tens of millions…

As billionaire Elon Musk feuds with President Trump over his signature tax and domestic policy legislation, Musk has reupped his calls to launch a new political party — a daunting task even for the wealthiest person on Earth.Musk first floated launching a third party, dubbed the “America Party,” earlier this month, part of a nasty back-and-forth between the president and the Tesla CEO that marked the likely end of their political alliance. Musk raised the idea again this week as lawmakers raced to send the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to Mr. Trump’s desk — and this time, Musk put…