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Mayor Adams’s Farewell To-Do List: Praise Himself, Undermine Mamdani

Before jetting off to Mexico, Mayor Eric Adams held an unusual news conference that included a time capsule, a new theme song and a defense of his one-term tenure.

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Biden: 'If we don't lead, who leads the world? Russia? China?'

Former President Biden, during a Monday meet-and-greet event for his presidential library, urged the United States to press ahead as a world leader. “If we don't lead, who leads the world? Russia? China?” Biden asked. “We have to. We owe it to our own families, we owe it to the world and we can get…

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Trump Partners With AI Firms to Build Tech Talent Pipeline

The Trump administration will recruit 1,000 artificial intelligence experts in the coming months through a new program aimed at modernizing the federal workforce. The effort, called US Tech Force, aims to hire early career technologists into roles across the government — one of the administration’s …

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Susie Wiles comes under the spotlight after Vanity Fair remarks

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is grappling with a controversy of her own making after she made a number of startling admissions in a series of interviews with Vanity Fair. In an article published Tuesday that drew on 11 interviews with Wiles over the past year, the chief of staff offered bl…

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GOP Rep. Mike Lawler calls Johnson decision to not hold ACA vote "idiotic"

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not hold a vote on a bill extending Obamacare subsidies this week. New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler joined CBS News with his reaction.

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Trump expands US travel ban to include Syria, Palestine

US adds five Arab and African countries to travel ban list as right-wing politicians intensify Islamophobic rhetoric.

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Remixing Trump’s Economy Speech, Vance Strikes a Different Tone

Vice President JD Vance pleaded with everybody to just hang in there a little longer, saying the economy would improve.

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Sen. Chris Murphy after boat strike briefing: There's 'no fentanyl' and 'no legal justification'

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said that Tuesday’s classified briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms that the Trump administration has no legal or national security justification for the strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific…

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Trump doubles number of countries facing travel bans or restrictions

President Trump on Tuesday more than doubled the list of countries subject to his travel ban or to heavy restrictions, bringing the total number of nations affected to 39.

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Once Again, Transparency Is Not the Enemy of Academic Freedom

The University of North Carolina system's proposal to require faculty to post syllabi publicly has triggered fierce opposition from some professors; faculty who now insist that transparency itself threatens academic freedom. They are wrong. And their reaction helps explain why public confidence cont…

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Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief

The White House has never had a more loathsome occupant.

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Potential NSA, Cyber Command leader nomination transmitted to Senate

The signals intelligence titan and combatant command have been without a permanent leader for months since far-right activist Laura Loomer pushed for the firing of Gen. Timothy Haugh in April.

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Trump to give primetime address Wednesday night; Wiles getting support after Vanity Fair story

President Trump announced Tuesday that he'll deliver a primetime address to the nation Wednesday night. The announcement comes after a bombshell Vanity Fair article about Mr. Trump's inner circle. CBS News' Ed O'Keefe reports.

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Live results: Democrats seek to defend Kentucky state Senate seat in special election

Democrats are looking to hold onto a state Senate seat in Kentucky that was vacated earlier this year when David Yates stepped down to serve as Jefferson County Clerk. The special election Tuesday night pits Democrat Gary Clemons, an Army veteran and union leader, against Republican Calvin Leach, an…

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Senate Republicans push for progress on next funding package this week

Senate Republicans are aiming to move forward on a new package of funding bills before leaving for the holidays, with just weeks to go before the next deadline to avoid another shutdown.

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Democratic senators investigate data centers’ effects on electricity prices

Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Van Hollen go after tech firms including Google and AmazonThree Democratic US senators announced Tuesday that they are investigating whether big tech companies are passing the soaring utility costs of “energy-guzzling” data centers on to ordinary Americ…

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Trump’s approval rating drops to 39% amid economic concerns: US poll

Reuters/Ipsos survey suggests Americans are increasingly unhappy with Trump's handling of the economy.

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Trump World defends Susie Wiles after Vanity Fair piece

President Trump and his Cabinet members on Tuesday defended White House chief of staff Susie Wiles after Vanity Fair published what she described as a “disingenuously framed hit piece.” Wiles sat for 11 interviews with the outlet to describe her role as the first female chief of staff and the intric…

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Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Vanity Fair Interviews Describing Trump World

During 11 interviews with Vanity Fair over President Trump’s first year back in office, Ms. Wiles, his chief of staff, opened up about the president, the people around him and their internal fights.

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Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

Senators demand Big Tech pay upfront for data center spikes in electricity bills.