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Trump considering major changes at FEMA, removes Fauci's federal security detail

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump said Friday he was planning to sign an executive order that could lead to an overhaul, or elimination, of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan examines what this could mean. She also discusses why Mr. Trump removed the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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Trump bans funding for groups that aid abortion overseas

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump signed an order Friday reinstating a policy that requires foreign nongovernmental agencies to certify that they don't provide or promote abortion if they receive U.S. federal funds for family planning assistance.

The position, sometimes called the Mexico City Policy and referred to by opponents as the "global gag rule," was first introduced more than 40 years ago. Every Republican president has put it in effect, and every Democrat has rescinded it.

Eight years ago, the first Trump administration not only brought back the prohibition...
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Interior Department says Gulf of Mexico officially renamed Gulf of America

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed to the Gulf of America, the Interior Department announced Friday, while the name of North America's highest peak, Alaska's Denali, has been changed back to Mount McKinley, both moves are in response to a controversial executive order signed by President Trump after he took office.

The Interior Department said in a news release that the name changes "reaffirm the Nation's commitment to preserving the extraordinary heritage of the United States and ensuring that future generations of Americans celebrate the legacy...
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Marco Rubio to Chinese foreign minister: Trump will put 'American people first' in US-China relations

  • News source: FOX News
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Chinese Foreign Minister and Director of the CCP Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi that the Trump administration will put the "American people first" and advance U.S. interests in its relationship with China, according to a readout of the call from spokesperson Tammy Bruce.

The meeting was the first between Rubio and Wang since the former Florida senator was unanimously approved by the Senate this week to become President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet official following Monday's inauguration.

"The...
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Trump Department of Education dismisses 'meritless' book ban complaints

  • News source: FOX News
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The Department of Education has dismissed 11 complaints related to "book bans" and eliminated a Biden-era position tasked with investigating school districts and parents, the agency announced Friday.

The department said it was ending Biden's "Book Ban Hoax" regarding complaints that alleged that the removal of age-inappropriate, sexually explicit or obscene materials from school libraries created a hostile environment for students.

It also eliminated the "book ban coordinator," which investigated school districts and parents "working to protect...
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Musk, MrBeast, Larry Ellison - Who might buy TikTok?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Several potential US buyers have expressed interest in purchasing the social media platform.
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Her grandfather drove trains to Auschwitz. My great-grandmother died there

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Amie, a descendant of a Holocaust survivor, meets Cornelia, who is untangling her family's Nazi past.
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Rig disaster families welcome critical study

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The families of those killed are reacting to a new report which found they were failed.
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Rubio orders freeze of new funding for nearly all U.S. foreign aid programs

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sent an order to all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts instructing a pause on "all new obligations of funding, pending a review, for foreign assistance programs funded by or through the Department and USAID." The message was in line with the executive order President Trump signed on Monday to reevaluate U.S. foreign aid.

The order, which was obtained by CBS News, said that across the U.S. government, "it is currently impossible to access sufficient information in one place to determine whether the foreign...
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March for Life attendees react to JD Vance speech: ‘It was amazing’

  • News source: FOX News
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Vice President JD Vance received a massive welcome from pro-lifer activists at the March for Life this Friday in his first public address since the inauguration.

Vance touted President Donald Trump’s recent pardons of several pro-life activists prosecuted by the Biden Department of Justice. He also spoke strongly about the need for pro-family governmental policies, saying, "I want to see more babies in the United States of America."

Trump also delivered remarks to the March for Life crowd via a video message.

Marchers told Fox News Digital that...
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President Trump names Australian professional basketball team owner as New Zealand, Samoa ambassador

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Australian basketball Illawarra Hawks majority owner Jared Novelly will serve as the next U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and the Independent State of Samoa.

Trump described Novelly as a "highly respected philanthropist" in an announcement on Truth Social.

TRUMP NOMINATES PENNY SCHWINN FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY OF US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Novelly serves as chairman of Crest Sports and Entertainment and Crest Management.

WHO IS SEAN CURRAN? HEAD OF TRUMP'S PERSONAL DETAIL TO BE NOMINATED FOR SECRET...
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Newsom thanks Trump for coming to California to tour fire damage in tarmac face-off

  • News source: FOX News
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Gov. Gavin Newsom thanked President Donald Trump Friday for visiting Southern California to tour the devastation left by the fires this month, marking their first face-off since starting an ongoing online feud over the wildfire damage.

Trump traveled to Southern California Friday to see damage from the recent wildfires that destroyed thousands of acres and more than 10,000 buildings in the Los Angeles area and claimed the lives of nearly 30 people.

Newsom was waiting on the tarmac for Trump before the president exited Air Force One. The two shook...
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US issues pause on foreign aid, leaked memo says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The State Department notice appears to affect everything from development assistance to military aid.
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Trump tours LA fire destruction as new fires erupt

  • News source: BBC News - World
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After visiting hurricane-hit North Carolina, Trump travelled to California where he met the state's governor.
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Just days into the new Trump administration, worries spike amid a show of force on immigration

  • News source: Mike Catalini and Rebecca Santana | The
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Less than a week into his presidency, the Trump administration Friday touted deportation efforts and published new rules making it easier to remove people — part of a flurry of actions to make good on campaign promises to crack down on illegal immigration. Amid officials’ latest show of force, waves of worry reverberated in parts of the country, with officials in Newark, New Jersey, lashing out over what they called illegal arrests by immigration agents.

President Donald Trump's administration portrayed U.S. military planes carrying migrants that...
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