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Washington — President Trump visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday morning for what the White House said was his “routine yearly checkup,” just six months after undergoing his annual physical examination at the same facility. According to a memo obtained by CBS News Friday evening, written by the president’s physician, Capt. Sean Barbabella, Mr. Trump “successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluation.” Barbabella stated that the president underwent “advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventive health assessments,” adding that “comprehensive laboratory studies performed in conjunction with the visit were exceptional, including stable metabolic, hematologic, and cardiac parameters.”The president also received his…

Virginia is just weeks away from electing a new governor, but the government shutdown and a recent text message scandal could reshape the race. LEILA FADEL, HOST: The Virginia governor’s race is in its final stretch. The contest in the purplish state is often seen as a gauge of national voter sentiment in between a presidential election and the midterms. This year, some late breaking events may be reshaping the race. Here’s Margaret Barthel of member station WAMU.MARGARET BARTHEL, BYLINE: First, there’s the government shutdown. Virginia is home to about 320,000 federal workers. Right now, many of them are furloughed.…

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October 10, 2025 Mamdani is right to hold FIFA accountable for fleecing its fans. But cheaper prices won’t matter if you end up in the back of an unmarked van. Ad Policy New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference announcing his “Game Over Greed” campaign urging FIFA to drop dynamic pricing on September 10, 2025, in the Bronx.(Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images) You can tell the world is going to hell when politicians seize the circus. That a mixed martial arts show will soon take place on the White House lawn to commemorate the Declaration…

Maria Corina Machado told CBS News Friday that being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize serves as a message to her fellow Venezuelans that “we are not alone.””They have been part of this huge movement,” Machado told CBS News by Zoom. “We are not alone. The world recognizes this huge, epic fight.” Machado is the leader of the pro-democracy movement in Venezuela, which is under a dictatorship so brutal she has been forced to live in hiding.”This is certainly the biggest recognition to our people,” Machado told CBS News, which was the only U.S. media outlet to speak to her following Friday’s announcement. Known as…

A powerful explosion ripped through a military explosives facility in Tennessee on Friday morning, leaving multiple people dead and 19 others missing, officials said. Video from the scene showed damaged vehicles and charred debris scattered around the area. The explosion took place at Accurate Energetic Systems, a military explosives plant, around 7:45 a.m. Central time on Friday morning, Humphrey County Sheriff Chris Davis said during an afternoon news conference. The blast occurred in one of the eight buildings on the campus. Davis said there were 19 people unaccounted for and that there were fatalities. He did not specify how many people had…

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), speaks with reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House in July 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The Trump administration says “substantial” layoffs of federal workers have begun, appearing to follow through on threats to slash the size of government during the shutdown. The announcement first came from Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought in a social media post on X that said, “The RIFs have begun.” An OMB spokesperson confirmed to NPR that the reduction-in-force, or “RIF” process…

Greenbelt, Maryland — A top immigration official from the Trump administration is facing questions in federal court Friday about plans to again deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported to a prison in his home country earlier this year before he was brought back to the U.S. to face criminal charges.On Monday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Justice Department to provide a witness for Friday’s hearing with first-hand knowledge of the Trump administration’s plans to remove Abrego Garcia to Eswatini, the small African nation formerly known as Swaziland, as it attempts to yet again…

Politics / October 10, 2025 The New York attorney general has led the legal fight against Trump, and now he has mobilized the Justice Department to go after her. Ad Policy New York Attorney General Letitia James.(Andy Katz / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images) All day Thursday, I was texting with a group of friends about whether and how blue states could band together if President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, as Santa Monica Goebbels (Stephen Miller) is clearly salivating to do. I was certain about only one thing: Democratic Attorneys General, led by New York Attorney General…

Two former secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice, are joining CBS News for a panel with CBS News senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell on Friday to discuss the Israel-Hamas peace plan brokered by President Trump as the first stage of the deal takes shape.The conversation is taking place two days after the signing of a landmark deal in which Hamas agreed to release all remaining hostages taken on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel pledged to withdraw its military from parts of the Gaza Strip. Mr. Trump has called the deal the “first phase” of a comprehensive 20-point plan to…