From WaPo: Polls show Americans believe foreign aid is about 25 percent of the federal budget--and a majority think it should be more like 10 percent. In reality, foreign aid is less than 1 percent of the budget. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

National Park ranger fired from "dream job" on Valentine's Day pens emotional viral letter: "Things are not ok" - CBS News cbsnews.com/news/national-…

Yesterday, Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. 🧵

Stocks fell sharply on Monday after President Trump announced that 25% tariffs will go into effect overnight on nearly all goods imported from Mexico and Canada. Experts warn that tariffs will likely raise auto prices and cost U.S. families more. CBS News’ Weijia Jiang has the latest

President Trump has cited a number of reasons for imposing tariffs on Canada. We found many of his claims are misleading. cbsnews.com/news/trump-tar…

President Trump has imposed steep tariffs on Canadian goods, citing trade imbalances and drug trafficking. But many of his claims exaggerate or misrepresent the facts. cbsn.ws/3FEfXt6

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Do you like charts? Or history? Both are in this story breaking down Trump's EO usage cbsnews.com/news/trump-iss…

Trump's order to the Justice Department to investigate Chris Krebs identifies as one of his supposed offenses that he "falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen."

We're told the U.S. FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-…

Even as tariff-related surcharges are kicking in, Trump has made a number of inaccurate claims that prices for everyday goods are falling. Some fact checks: cbsnews.com/news/trump-gro…

We got data from 76 colleges that considered race in admissions before the Supreme Court affirmative action ruling, and found the share of underrepresented minority students decreased by about 2 percentage points from fall 2023 to fall 2024. cbsnews.com/news/colleges-…

The White House and GOP leaders say President Trump's budget bill cuts the deficit and spares Medicaid. Analysts say it does neither. cbsn.ws/43YPBvH

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Here is what happened on each day the protests against immigration detention operations in the Los Angeles area. cbsn.ws/3HzCTuF

New newsletter: The death of partying in the USA The latest American Time Use Survey came out last month. I wanted to follow up on Ellen Cushing's declaration that Americans need to party more. The new data confirms: America's social crisis is dire. - Between 2003 and 2024, the

Some posts online have falsely linked cloud seeding to the deadly Texas floods. Alex Clark and I broke down why these claims went viral: cbsnews.com/news/texas-flo…

President Trump claims the European Union doesn't buy American cars or food. Here are the facts. cbsn.ws/40o7fH4