Elon Musk and DOGE sent an email to federal employees demanding they list five things they worked on in the past week, saying failure to respond would be taken as resignation. But multiple agency heads are telling their staffers not to respond to the email. Willie James Inman reports.
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Exit polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading, with the AfD party heading towards the strongest showing of the far-right since World War II.
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Exit polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading, with the AfD party heading towards the strongest showing of the far-right since World War II.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would give up the presidency in exchange for peace and his country’s acceptance into NATO, although it was not clear if he was actually considering stepping down. As the war is about to enter its third year, Russia unleashed a massive drone attack overnight. Imtiaz Tyab has the latest.
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All USAID direct hires deemed non-essential will be placed on administrative leave at 11:59 p.m. ET Sunday.
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Arline Geronimus’ research shows how societal pressures like institutional racism, classism, financial stressors or the environmental can impact not just the length of life, but also the quality of life for marginalized communities suffering chronic diseases.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Democratic governors won’t “sit idly by” as President Trump threatens retaliation if the leaders do not comply with his agenda.
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This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” the president’s mission to shrink the federal workforce intensifies, and his foreign policy dealmaking reaches a critical juncture. We’ll speak with President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York and more.
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Missed the second half of the show? The latest on…Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah says Elon Musk needs to bring a “dose of compassion” to his treatment of federal workers who are being fired across the government, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland faulted President Trump for undermining Ukraine in any eventual peace talks with Russia, saying that taking several Ukrainian demands off the table is “terrible negotiating”, and “I think that this is going to get into the hundreds of cases and could take many months to fully snuff out,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the FDA, said about the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico.
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President Trump announced on Friday that he will replace Gen. Charles Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Other senior Defense Department officials were also ousted. CBS News senior national security correspondent Charlie D’Agata examines the impact of the firings.
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