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On the night of the 2024 presidential election, Ken James, a retired engineer from Calgary, Alberta, was at his second home in Palm Springs, Calif., watching with dismay as the results rolled in.Mr. James, 68, called his wife back in Calgary. “If he gets back in, I’m selling,” he recalled her saying of Donald Trump.Mr. James is among hundreds of thousands of Canadians, many of them snowbirds, who each year flock to Palm Springs, a sunbaked resort city about 110 miles east of Los Angeles that is known for its midcentury architecture, otherworldly desert and art scene. For nearly five…

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to federal murder and stalking charges at his arraignment Friday in Manhattan federal court. He is accused in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. The murder charge is eligible for the death penalty, which Attorney General Pam Bondi said prosecutors will seek in Mangione’s federal trial, which is likely to start in 2026. Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty in NYC federal murder caseMangione’s court appearance drew a crowd of onlookers to the courthouse in Lower Manhattan.     Federal prosecutors indicted him last week on two counts of stalking, a firearm offense and murder through the…

Politics / April 25, 2025 In his first three months in office, Trump’s ire has been particularly ferocious on two policy areas: immigration and higher education. Ad Policy Protesters hold signs as they march toward the White House during a “Hands Off!” protest of President Donald Trump’s policies and executive actions in Washington, DC, on April 19, 2025.(Richard Pierrin / AFP via Getty Images) Over the last three months, the Trump administration has taken a blowtorch to constitutional limits in two policy areas in particular—that of immigration and that of the federal government’s relationship with institutions of higher education. On…

Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” as a teenager to rich and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Britain, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41.Ms. Giuffre (pronounced JIFF-ree) died by suicide, according to a statement by the family. She wrote in an Instagram post in March that she was days away from dying of renal failure after being injured in an automobile crash with a school bus that she said was traveling at nearly 70 miles per hour.In the…

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The Trump administration moved on Friday to weaken federal prohibitions on government employees showing support for President Trump while at work, embracing the notion that they should be allowed to wear campaign paraphernalia and removing an independent review board’s role in policing violations.The Office of Special Counsel, an agency involved in enforcing the restrictions, announced the changes to the interpretation of the Hatch Act, a Depression-era law devised to ensure that the federal work force operates free of political influence or coercion. The revisions, a resurrection of rules that Mr. Trump rolled out at the end of his first term…

The federal government has investigated prominent universities, paused grant funding and revoked student visas. And still, it is graduation season on American campuses, where thousands of young adults will soon don four-sided caps and celebrate years of hard work while “Pomp and Circumstance” plays on repeat.Like always, college administrators have selected a range of keynote speakers to impart wisdom (and, they hope, avoid controversy) at commencement ceremonies.A year after pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated at many graduations, and amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on higher education, colleges are walking a tightrope in picking speakers. Administrators want to find someone who is interesting…

Virginia Giuffre, one of the most outspoken accusers of Jeffrey Epstein, died by suicide on Friday, Giuffre’s family confirmed in a statement provided to CBS News. Giuffre died at her farm in Western Australia, her family said. She was 41.”She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” her family’s statement read. “Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure.”Last…

President Trump and his education secretary, Linda McMahon, have said repeatedly that they want to send education “back to the states.” But in recent lawsuits, the administration is accused of doing the opposite: wielding the power of the federal government to tell schools what they can and cannot teach. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Three federal judges, in Maryland, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C., ruled Thursday that the Trump administration had overstepped when it ordered the nation’s schools to stop all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs as well as classroom teaching the administration might consider discriminatory.…

If President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia drafted a shopping list of what he wanted from Washington, it would be hard to beat what he was offered in the first 100 days of President Trump’s new term.Pressure on Ukraine to surrender territory to Russia? Check.The promise of sanctions relief? Check.Absolution from invading Ukraine? Check.Indeed, as Mr. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff visited Moscow on Friday for more negotiations, the president’s vision for peace appeared notably one-sided, letting Russia keep the regions it had taken by force in violation of international law while forbidding Ukraine from ever joining NATO.But that is not…