The Trump administration has proposed cutting a $56 million grant that teaches first responders how to use the lifesaving overdose reversal drug naloxone, which experts say could reverse progress the United States has made in lowering opioid overdose deaths. A recent dip in overdose deaths has been credited in part to wider naloxone access. The medication […]
Trump administration fast-tracks oil and mining projects, angering environmentalists
The Trump administration said it will accelerate permit approvals for mining, drilling and fossil fuel production and transportation on public land, fast-tracking a review process that would normally take years. In announcing the emergency procedures Wednesday, the Department of the Interior, which oversees the management of federal lands and natural resources, said the permitting process […]
Many companies plan to pass tariff costs on to consumers, economic data shows
President Trump claims that other countries and exporters to the U.S. will largely pick up the cost of tariffs. Yet recent data shows that companies are moving to pass along those added expenses to American consumers, threatening to push up prices. According to recent survey data from Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Sløk and the Federal […]
Trump says trade deals could come this week. Here’s what to know as negotiations continue.
President Trump says the U.S. may be close to announcing new tariff agreements as his administration faces pressure to strike deals with major trade partners before a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs ends on July 9. Since announcing a bevy of tariffs from the Rose Garden in early April, President Trump and his team have been in […]
At Social Security, these are the days of the living dead
Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people. They’re not really dead, of course. In four instances over the past few weeks, he told KFF Health News, his Schenectady, New York, office has seen people come in for whom “there is no […]
Student loan borrowers struggle to pay, get answers as debt collections begin: “We’re kind of drowning”
The Department of Education says federal student loan borrowers who do not pay on time could damage their credit scores and even have their wages garnished beginning today, May 5 — causing challenges for some of the more than 5 million borrowers who are in default and struggling to get answers about their loans. “I don’t […]
Dr. Casey Means, Trump’s new surgeon general nominee, is RFK Jr. ally and MAHA advocate
President Trump will nominate Dr. Casey Means, an ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and prominent advocate for his agenda, to serve as the U.S. surgeon general, the president announced Wednesday. Means replaces Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, whose nomination was withdrawn by the White House a day before she was scheduled to […]
Canada’s Prime Minister Carney says country is “not for sale” in Oval Office meeting with Trump
Canada’s Prime Minister Carney says country is “not for sale” in Oval Office meeting with Trump – CBS News Watch CBS News Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told President Trump in an Oval Office meeting that his country “is not for sale.” It follows Mr. Trump’s comments about making Canada the 51st state of the […]
Trump withdraws Dr. Janette Nesheiwat’s surgeon general nomination, picks Dr. Casey Means instead
The White House has withdrawn President Trump’s nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for U.S. surgeon general, and Mr. Trump announced a new pick on social media Wednesday. Nesheiwat’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee had been scheduled for Thursday. The office of Sen. Bernie Sanders, the ranking Democrat on the […]
Trump administration invokes state-secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case
Washington — The Trump administration appears to have invoked the state-secrets privilege to withhold information in the case involving the mistaken removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador and any efforts by the Trump administration to return him to the United States. The administration’s assertion of the privilege was revealed in an order from […]