Nearly 4,000 employees, or more than 20% of NASA’s workforce, have applied to leave the agency, NASA confirmed to CBS News Friday. About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, NASA disclosed. The deadline for applications to the program is midnight Friday. With those deferred…
The new normal for U.S. tariffs on foreign goods starts at 15%. Even as President Trump seeks to forge new terms of trade with Japan, the European Union and other global economic partners, he is raising the floor for tariffs to their highest level in decades. Speaking at an AI summit on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said “we’ll…
A federal appeals court said Wednesday that President Trump’s executive order curtailing birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. The policy, which has been the subject of a complicated monthslong legal back-and-forth, is currently on hold. But Wednesday’s decision appears to mark the first time that an appellate court has weighed in on the merits of Mr. Trump’s…
House Republicans on Tuesday advanced a measure that would rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ opera house after first lady Melania Trump — as President Trump and his allies boost their influence over the D.C. cultural institution. The proposed renaming was folded into an amendment to a bill that would set fiscal year 2026…
Video shows conditions inside New York City immigrant detention facility – CBS News Watch CBS News An immigrant advocacy group has released new video of a federal detention facility in New York City, where detainees allegedly only receive one meal a day and have to deal with overcrowding. Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more. Be the first…
President Donald Trump reacted on Tuesday to new reporting from CNN featuring newly-surfaced photos of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein attending Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. Asked to respond to the report, Trump told CNN in a phone call: “You’ve got to be kidding me.” The president also repeatedly called the outlet “fake…
Economist discusses latest trade deals – CBS News Watch CBS News Kyle Handley, an economist and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, joins CBS News to discuss the latest on tariffs and trade deals. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source…
President Trump on Tuesday floated the possibility of eliminating the federal capital gains tax on home sales, in a move that would change the way real estate profits are taxed for the first time in 30 years. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Mr. Trump suggested he is weighing supporting legislation introduced by Rep….
By Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor, Gabe led award-winning coverage of Charleston church shooter Dylan Roof’s capture in 2015, along with coverage of the Alex Murdaugh double murder…
Last week, U.S. chip designer Nvidia announced that it would resume sales of one of its best-selling artificial intelligence chips to China after obtaining the go-ahead from the U.S. government. In April, the Trump administration had blocked exports of the chip, known as the H20, but after months of lobbying from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang,…