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Washington — President Trump said Friday night he is "immediately revoking" former President Joe Biden's security clearance and will bar him from receiving intelligence briefings.

"There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information," Mr. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Mr. Trump said he was taking the action because Biden did the same to him in 2021, setting a precedent.

Biden told CBS News in February 2021 that Mr. Trump could not be trusted with having access to classified information because of...

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President Donald Trump on Friday announced he is revoking former President Joe Biden's security clearances and stopping his daily intelligence briefings.

"There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Friday night.

The privileges will be revoked immediately, according to the President.

He added the precedent was set by Biden himself.

"He set this precedent in 2021, when he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United...

San Francisco Mayor David Lurie launched the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) Hospitality Task Force and secured a key vote in support of the Fentanyl State of Emergency Ordinance this week as he works to clean up San Francisco's streets and restore common sense policies to the liberal city.

San Francisco has had one of the slowest economic recoveries from the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Images of San Francisco’s open-air drug markets, homeless encampments and empty office buildings have caught the nation’s attention since the pandemic...

Rep. Jim Jordan, GOP chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., sent employees from the Fulton County District Attorney's office requests Thursday to hand over documents and interviews related to the Jan. 6 Committee as they continue investigating District Attorney Fani Willis.

"The committee previously wrote to District Attorney Willis requesting documents relating to her coordination with the January 6 Select Committee. Because District Attorney Willis has declined to cooperate, the committee must pursue other...

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk’s efforts to clean up waste and fraud in the federal government will soon shift its focus to the Social Security Administration (SSA) in a move likely to create a firestorm with Democrats.

The SSA, created by the Social Security Act under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 and tasked with establishing a federal benefits system for older Americans, will soon become a focus of DOGE, according to a report from Semafor that was not denied by the White House when contacted by Fox News...

Only about 600 out of 10,000 employees would have kept working at the agency under the president's plan.

As millions of federal workers face a looming deadline to decide whether to accept the Trump administration's unprecedented buyout offer, questions remain over whether the plan is even valid without Congress’ approval, according to interviews with federal law and labor experts.

More than 60,000 employees have already agreed to resign as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to rapidly reduce the government workforce, with more being coaxed to take the deal ahead of a Monday deadline.

That same day, a federal judge in Boston is expected to hear...

The State Department has formally told Congress that it plans to sell more than $7 billion in weapons to Israel, including thousands of bombs and missiles, just two days after President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

The massive arms sale comes as a fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas holds, even as Trump continues to tout his widely criticized proposal to move all Palestinians from Gaza and redevelop it as an international travel destination.

The sale is another step in Trump’s...

President Donald Trump on Friday said he intended to fire some of the FBI personnel who worked on Capitol riot cases, asserting without providing evidence that some of them were “corrupt.”

"I will fire some of them," Trump said, in answer to a reporter’s question at a news conference in Washington with the Japanese prime minister. He added: "We had some corrupt agents, and those people are gone or they will be gone, and it will be done quickly and very surgically."

No evidence has surfaced publicly of any misconduct by FBI personnel who...

One day after a DOGE Treasury Department employee resigned over racist social media posts, the Trump administration has vowed to rehire him.

As Elon Musk helps the Trump administration eliminate DEI, his SpaceX currently has a NASA contract to help land the first woman and first person of color on the moon.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency group has made swift work of the billionaire's goal to curtail the government. Here are some of the direct actions.

The Trump administration, in a letter Thursday, directed states to stop spending money for EV charging infrastructure — funds that had been allocated under former President Joe Biden. President Trump has slammed federal funding for electric vehicle chargers as "an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars."

But the administration may need an act of Congress to freeze the states' spending, and it's not clear there will be one. Industry leaders say customer demand will continue to drive growth in the charging network, regardless of federal funding.

The...

Trump administration political appointees have taken steps in recent weeks to exert unprecedented influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flagship medical research publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News. The interference included dictating what to cover and withholding studies on the growing bird flu outbreak.

The Trump administration's moves to control the research published by the agency ends a decades-long streak of independence for the journal, known as the...

Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest man, whose companies have contracts with and interest in the federal government while Musk and his team overhaul the size and scope of government, won't be filing a publicly available financial disclosure report.

Instead, Musk's required financial disclosure as a designated special government employee will be confidential, a White House official said on the condition of anonymity. Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency task force have been making sweeping changes and forcing cuts at government...