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A currently vacant building under heavy renovation at an address associated with a contribution to President Donald Trump, is photographed May 2, 2025, in Washington.
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Trump wants an investigation of Democrats’ fundraising. His own campaign has issues

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and STEVE PEOPLES
Updated 10:08 AM CDT, May 27, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump directed his attorney general last month to investigate online fundraising, he cited concerns that foreigners and fraudsters were using elaborate “schemes“ and “dummy accounts” to funnel illegal contributions to politicians and causes.

Instead of calling for an expansive probe, however, the president identified just one potential target: ActBlue, the Democrats’ online fundraising juggernaut, which has acknowledged receiving over 200 potentially illicit contributions last year from foreign internet addresses.

Trump’s announcement contained a glaring omission — his political committees also received scores of potentially problematic contributions.

An Associated Press review of donations to Trump over the past five years found 1,600 contributions from donors who live abroad, have close ties to foreign interests or failed to disclose basic information, often making it difficult, if not impossible, to identify them and verify the legality of their donations Among those was $5,000 linked to a derelict building, and $5,000 from a Chinese businessman who listed a La Quinta Inn as his address. Another sizable donation — $1 million — was made by the wife of an African oil and mining magnate.

It’s against the law for U.S. candidates and political committees to accept contributions from foreign nationals. Laws also place strict limits on donation amounts and prohibit the laundering of contributions to get around legal caps. For the most part, such donations have been policed by campaigns and the Federal Election Commission, with only the most egregious examples being targeted by federal law enforcement. ...

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AI to be incorporated into Social Security's phone system, commissioner says

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Frank Bisignano, commissioner of the Social Security Administration, told CBS News that he believes technology, and specifically artificial intelligence, could be the key to improving his agency's customer service, despite recent changes that have prompted concern among some of the nearly 69 million Americans that receive Social Security each month.

"We're bringing a massive technology effort to transform the servicing agenda," Bisignano said. "We're gonna bring AI into the phone system...I intend it to be completed this year."

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Last living grandson of 10th U.S. President John Tyler dies at 96

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The last living grandson of the 10th U.S. President John Tyler has died at 96 years old — the end of a link to a bygone era of American history.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler died on Sunday evening, May 25, his family said in a statement to CBS News. His grandfather, who was born in 1790, left the Oval Office more than 179 years ago, after serving from 1841 to 1845, well before the Civil War. President Tyler's immediate descendants lived into the modern age because of two generations of late second marriages to much younger wives.

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Breaking down Trump's recent pardoning spree

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump's latest pardons include a former Republican congressman, reality TV stars and a former Virginia sheriff. Scott MacFarlane has details.
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Robinhood CEO says Trump administration allows crypto to "play some offense"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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In Las Vegas, tens of thousands of people are betting on Bitcoin, the increasingly popular -- and unregulated -- digital currency. While the Biden administration took an aggressive approach to regulating the industry, the Trump administration is pulling back. Jo Ling Kent has more.
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Social Security chief on wait times, technology upgrades and agency's future

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Some Social Security recipients are getting three checks deposited into their accounts this month. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor Maurice DuBois spoke to Frank Bisignano, the new commissioner of the agency, about the crucial lifeline that serves tens of millions of Americans.
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Trey Gowdy thinks Trump's lawyers "have done a disservice to him"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Rep. Trey Gowdy believes that President Trump's lawyers "have done a disservice to him" by allowing the special counsel's Russia investigation "to be framed as an investigation into collusion and collusion only," he told CBS News' chief White House correspondent Major Garrett on "The Takeout" podcast.
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Rep. Marcy Kaptur says NAFTA is linked to the opioid crisis

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, who is now the longest-serving woman in the U.S. House of Representatives, says that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is "absolutely related" to the United States' opioid epidemic during an interview with CBS News' Major Garrett on "The Takeout" podcast.
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Danny Glover: "Racism is the foundation of this country"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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In an interview with CBS News' Major Garrett, actor and activist Danny Glover talks about the role of racism and slavery in the foundation of the United States. On "The Takeout" podcast he said that "we can chart the growth of this country, the wealth of this country" around slavery and that many Americans "have not given up the psychology around that."
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Terry McAuliffe on Trump: "If I ran I'd beat him"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe said on "The Takeout" podcast that if he ran for president, he would beat President Trump. "I'd have to make a decision to run, but if I ran I'd beat him. You bet," he told CBS News' Major Garrett.
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Mark Penn on how the Internet era divides us

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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In his new book "Microtrends Squared," author Mark Penn examines how the Internet has shaped modern society. He told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett on "The Takeout" podcast that "in a world of choice people are making fewer choices."
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CEA Chairman Kevin Hassett on the economics of immigration

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett told Major Garrett on "The Takeout" podcast that while immigration is an "incredibly contentious" issue in the United States, immigrants make up a relatively small portion of the national labor force.
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Court strikes down Trump reciprocal tariffs

  • News source: Lora Kolodny, CNBC and Erin Doherty, CNBC
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A federal court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority with his reciprocal tariffs, dealing a blow to a major tenet of the president's economic agenda.

The judges wrote that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law that Trump invoked to justify the tariffs, does not actually give the president the power to implement the sweeping duties initiated last month.

"The Worldwide and Retaliatory Tariff Orders exceed any authority granted to the President by IEEPA to regulate importation by means of tariffs,"...
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Todd and Julie Chrisley's pardons came after intervention by their daughter

  • News source: Matt Lavietes, Allan Smith and Corky Siemaszko |
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Disgraced reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were preparing for their release from prison Wednesday, a day after President Donald Trump personally told two of their adult children he was planning to pardon them.

The "Trumps of the South," who were convicted in 2022 of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States, will be released after intervention by one of his daughters.

Alex Little, an attorney for the Chrisleys, said in an interview that he did not know why Trump chose to pardon his clients this week.

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Trump commutes sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover

  • News source: NBC Chicago Staff
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President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of former Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover.

Hoover was convicted of operating a criminal enterprise in the late 1990s while imprisoned on a murder conviction, and had been housed at a federal supermax facility in Colorado to serve out that sentence.

On Wednesday, Hoover’s federal sentence was commuted, though he will still be required to return to Illinois to resume serving his sentence for a murder he was convicted of in the 1970s.

“After nearly 30 years in federal solitary and over 50 years...
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HHS slams 'under-tested' mRNA technology as Trump cuts Moderna's vaccine funding

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is terminating awards totaling more than $750 million dollars that were provided to pharmaceutical manufacturer Moderna to help facilitate its production of mRNA-based bird flu vaccines.

During President Joe Biden's final week in office, his administration awarded $590 million to Moderna to help speed up its production of mRNA-based vaccines. The $590 million award followed a separate $176 million award Biden gave to Moderna earlier last year for mRNA vaccine technology...
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