Senate passes massive ICE funding bill, avoids ban on “anti-weaponization” fund – CBS News Watch CBS News The Senate’s 18-hour-long “vote-a-rama” reaped a big win for President Trump after Republicans passed a massive ICE funding bill and avoided codifying a ban against the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization” fund. CBS News’ Aaron Navarro reports.
A Democratic Senate candidate from Maine faces more allegations of misconduct just days before voters head to the polls. Plus, the latest on the stabbing death of actor James Handy. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener.
The Senate passed a $70 billion reconciliation package to fund ICE through the end of President Trump’s term. The legislation, which heads to the House, did not include a ban on the president’s “anti-weaponization” fund. Nancy Cordes reports.
The National Transportation Safety Board has released new details involving an incident between a United Airlines flight and a truck last month. The NTSB says the plane didn’t strike the truck on the New Jersey turnpike, but a light pole, which hit the truck. Tom Hanson has more.
President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan defended conditions inside Delaney Hall, a detention center in Newark, New Jersey. Delaney Hall has been the target of multiple protests since Memorial Day weekend and many held inside have called the conditions “brutal and inhumane.”
Employers added 172,000 jobs in May, topping analyst forecasts, as the labor market continued to show strength despite rising inflation and concerns about slowing economic growth. By the numbers Economists polled by FactSet predicted that the economy would gain 105,000 jobs in May. The latest employment data from the Labor Department follows two months of …
Trump border czar Tom Homan speaks with CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez about the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in New Jersey, ICE’s security obligations during the World Cup, potential enforcement operations in New York and more.
Actor James Handy has been identified as the 81-year-old man stabbed to death in a Tarzana neighborhood on Wednesday. The Los Angeles Police Department said the actor was killed by his girlfriend’s son. Michael Gledhill, 44, turned himself in and flagged down officers at the scene and told them that he was the one they …
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Sherpa guide who survived a week on the treacherous slopes of Mount Everest was recovering at a hospital in Nepal’s capital on Friday, while his family angered by a delay in rescue efforts sought legal action against those responsible. Dawa Sherpa was found Thursday crawling in the snowy slopes around …
ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 5 (Reuters) – Russian financial authorities have created “a trap” for the economy with their tight monetary policy, driving it into stagnation, several sanctioned billionaires topping Russia’s Forbes list said on Friday, in their highest-level public criticism since a 2024 interest rate hike. Economic growth is expected to slow to 0.4% …