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Politics / September 30, 2025 The former hard-charging deputy attorney general succumbed to political hubris as FBI director, and discredited the federal justice system in the process. Ad Policy Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in via videoconference to testify before a 2020 Senate Judiciary hearing on federal investigations of the 2016 election. (Ken Cedeno / UPI / Bloomberg via Getty Images) It was August of 2005, and Jim Comey was delivering a memorable and heartfelt speech in the Department of Justice’s historic Great Hall as he stepped down from his position as deputy attorney general (DAG). Comey compared…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer debate government funding on Senate floor on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. Senate TV Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer got into a rare direct back-and-forth on the Senate floor ahead of the shutdown deadline.”Democrats have a choice to make. They can shut down the government and subject the American people to all the problems that come with a shutdown, many of which, as I’ve said, they’ve enumerated in the countless quotes they’ve made in the past,” Thune said. “Or they can join Republicans to pass a clean,…

Washington — A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Tuesday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio violated the First Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation in order to strike fear into international students and curb lawful speech.In a 161-page decision, U.S. District Judge William Young delivered a blistering assessment of the Trump administration’s efforts to pursue international students who expressed pro-Palestinian views on college campuses, which he said was constitutionally protected speech. The judge, appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, was unsparing not only in his views of Noem and Rubio’s actions, but also of…

U.S. Marines’ Lockheed Martin F35-B jets arrive in formation to José Aponte de la Torre Airport in September 2025, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. President Trump sent ten F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico as part of his war on drug cartels. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images At a recent hearing on Capitol Hill, FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated the Trump administration’s labeling of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and told lawmakers the United States should go after narcotraffickers like it did al-Qaida in the wake of…

Federal immigration officials have revealed plans to reopen the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to new applicants to comply with a court order, though they cautioned the Trump administration retains the discretion to modify the Obama-era policy.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has made plans to accept and process new DACA applications from immigrants not enrolled in the initiative, which currently allows more than half a million so-called “Dreamers” to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation, the Justice Department said in a court filing Monday.Dreamers are immigrants who, as children, entered the U.S. illegally or overstayed…

Tracking Imelda as it strengthens into a hurricane in the Atlantic – CBS News Watch CBS News Imelda strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday morning. It is already blamed for at least two deaths in eastern Cuba after flooding and landslides hit Monday. CBS News meteorologist Rob Marciano is tracking the storm. Source link

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Top Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left yesterday’s meeting with President Trump without a plan to fund the government. Federal agencies run out of money at midnight tonight. The meeting, which also included Vice President JD Vance, was a last-minute attempt to resolve a weeks-long standoff between the parties over spending. Vance made it clear that the GOP wouldn’t agree to Democrats’ demands to attach health care…

  1m ago Hegseth says he is overhauling the Pentagon’s inspector general Hegseth said that he is issuing new policies to overhaul the Defense Department’s internal watchdog, its inspector general, as well as the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Military Equal Opportunity program.He said he calls it the “no more walking on eggshells” policy. “We are liberating commanders and NCOs,” Hegseth said. “We are liberating you.”Hegseth said senior military leaders need to end the “poisonous culture of risk aversion.””You must trust that the warrior alongside you in battle is capable, truly, physically capable of doing what is necessary under fire,”…

Politics / September 29, 2025 Foreign bots were spewing much of the racist rhetoric that followed Charlie Kirk’s killing. And yet it gained traction only because there is plenty of homegrown racism to exploit. Ad Policy Utah Governor Spencer Cox and FBI Director Kash Patel at a press conference following the shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.(Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images) The evening after Charlie Kirk’s murder, the public safety commissioner of Utah, where Kirk was fatally shot on a college campus, admitted that law enforcement still had “no idea” about the identity of the…

9/29: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News What to know about Trump’s peace proposal for Gaza; Dads form group to write letters to thousands of strangers Source link