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The House Republican bill to enact President Trump’s domestic policy agenda contains a provision that has prompted opposition from the Mexican government — a tax on cash payments sent by non-U.S. citizens to family members in their home countries.The payments, known as remittances, would be subject to a 5% excise tax that would encompass more than 40 million people, including green card holders and nonimmigrant visa holders, such as people on H-1B, H-2A and H-2B visas. U.S. citizens would be exempt. In a May 13 letter to the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee, Esteban Moctezuma Barragán, Mexico’s ambassador…

Mass denaturalization could be used to move the country toward the MAGA movement’s larger goal of a white Christian nationalist United States. Ad Policy President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he boards Air Force One before departing Miami International Airport, in Miami, Florida, on April 3, 2025.(Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images) In 2017, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice filed denaturalization cases against five men who had been convicted of child sexual abuse. Some had committed their crimes prior to filing for naturalization but others had carried them out long after they’d become citizens. While the outcomes…

The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.  “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.)  Hosted by Jane PauleyINSIDE LOOK: “CBS Sunday Morning” invited Architectural Digest to come inside the making of By Design: A Weekend in New OrleansCITY OF NEW ORLEANS TOURISMABBLASEN: “CBS Sunday Morning” theme songWorld-famous French Quarter clarinetist, Doreen Ketchens, performs a unique New Orleans version of Abblasen, the “CBS Sunday Morning” theme song.COVER STORY: Welcome to New OrleansIn the 1930s, it’s said that playwright and longtime New Orleans resident…

President Trump ends Middle East trip with final push for U.S. investments – CBS News Watch CBS News In a speech to business leaders in Abu Dhabi, President Trump made a last sales pitch to encourage foreign investment in the U.S. His weeklong trip through the Middle East focused on deal-making and economic partnerships. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris (left) and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox (right) were fired by President Trump earlier this year. Mike Scarcella/Reuters; FM Archive/Alamy stock photo hide caption toggle caption Mike Scarcella/Reuters; FM Archive/Alamy stock photo Appellate judges in Washington, D.C., will consider a key question on Friday: Does the president have the constitutional authority to fire board members at agencies created by Congress to be independent of the White House? More specifically, did President Trump overstep when he removed National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris…

Video Game Hall of Fame nominees announced Reporter’s Notebook: World Video Game Hall of Fame nominees 01:58 Apple has blocked access to the online game Fortnite on iPhone devices in the United States and the European Union, according to the video game maker.”Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release to the U.S. App Store or to the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union,” the Fortnite X account said early Friday morning. Apple did not immediately reply to a request for comment.Fortnite, which is owned by Epic Games, said that the game will be offline worldwide on…

Cultural Contradictions / May 16, 2025 Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech. Ad Policy Bari Weiss speaks onstage during a book club event with Peggy Noonan on November 19, 2024. in New York City.(Noam Galai / The Free Press via Getty Images) This article appears in the June 2025 issue, with the headline “Who Crashed the Car?” It’s been five years since Harper’s published “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” a cri de coeur signed by 153 public intellectuals that…

Washington — House Republicans have yet to resolve several major disputes that threaten to derail President Trump’s domestic policy bill as more conservative members and blue-state Republicans dig in on their demands. House Speaker Mike Johnson remains committed to putting the legislation, which would extend tax cuts from Mr. Trump’s first term while temporarily enacting new ones, on the floor before Memorial Day. The tax measures, as well as increased spending on the military and border security, would be offset partly by cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and clean energy subsidies. But first, it will have to get through the House Budget…

San Francisco — San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, known to many as a tourist attraction, harbors a small fleet of fishing boats that might otherwise be catching crabs this time of year.However, migrating endangered humpback whales are now swimming in the same waters outside the Golden Gate strait where crabs are, and long lines of rope that fishermen traditionally use to pull up crab cages have entangled too many humpbacks. Since 2007, at least 922 humpback whales have been maimed or killed by these ropes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Fisherman Brand Little is able to keep bringing up his…

Emory University Hospital Midtown is seen on Thursday in Atlanta. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption toggle caption Brynn Anderson/AP ATLANTA — A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her family says a hospital told them was required under the state’s strict anti-abortion law. With her due date still more than three months away, it could be one of the longest such pregnancies. Her family is upset that Georgia’s law that restricts abortion once cardiac activity…