Author: Alex Smith

Washington—U.S. Agency for International Development employees have been directed to clear out classified safes and personnel documents from the Ronald Reagan Building, where the agency is housed, and shred or burn the records, according to two sources’ screenshots of an email sent to USAID staff and obtained by CBS News.USAID staffers received an email from USAID acting executive secretary Erica Carr directing them to clear out classified safes and personnel documents, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. The shredding instruction regarding sensitive documents was first reported by ProPublica. “Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder…

What to know after Monday’s market downturn What to know after Monday’s market downturn 06:57 U.S. stocks caved again on Tuesday as President Trump escalated his trade war with Canada, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 600 points and the S&P 500 approached correction territory.”The market has been down for three weeks in a row, largely driven by uncertainty about where trade policy lands, full stop. We’ve been inundated with tariff announcements that, unlike the 2018 playbook, are actually being applied universally versus the surgical approach we saw with term 1.0,” Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley…

The Russian military said Tuesday air defenses shot down 337 Ukrainian drones overnight across 10 Russian regions in what appears to be the biggest Ukrainian drone attack on Russia in three years. The attack came as a Ukrainian delegation was set to meet in Saudi Arabia with America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, about ending the three-year war with Russia. Ukraine said later Tuesday that the talks had started, Agence France-Presse reported.The talks reflect a new diplomatic push after an unprecedented argument erupted during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Feb. 28 visit to the White House, and a cutoff of…

For James Edwards, a 57-year-old patient with congestive heart failure, recovering at home from shortness of breath rather than in a hospital setting was a welcome option. Nurses come to check on him twice a day and monitoring equipment would notify the hospital about any change in vitals. The house calls are part of a mobile medical program that’s growing nationally, with Medicare, Medicaid and some private insurance carriers offering coverage for the service. There are more than 380 approved hospital-at-home programs in 39 states, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In overcrowded hospitals, the programs can…

Washington — President Trump warned Monday that this weekend’s arrest of prominent Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil by federal immigration authorities is the first “of many to come” amid his administration’s crackdown on students and alleged “agitators” protesting Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.The president wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social that his administration “will not tolerate” what he said is “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American” activity on college campuses across the country, and claimed the protests are being waged by “paid agitators,” rather than students. As a student at Columbia University last spring, Khalil helped lead demonstrations…

A U.S.-flagged oil tanker and a cargo ship were in a collision off the coast of eastern England in the North Sea on Monday, setting both vessels on fire and triggering a major rescue operation, officials said. An English port boss said at least 32 people have been brought ashore, but some of their conditions were unclear.Martyn Boyers, chief executive of the Port of Grimsby East, said 13 casualties were brought in on a Windcat 33 vessel, followed by another 19 on a harbor pilot boat. Boyers said he had been told there was “a massive fireball.””It’s too far out…

Seoul, South Korea — North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday, South Korea’s military said, hours after South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their large annual combined drills, which the North views as an invasion rehearsal.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile firings, North Korea’s fifth missile launch event this year, were detected as coming from the North’s Hwanghae province but gave no further details such as how far they flew. It said South Korea bolstered its surveillance posture and is closely coordinating with the United States. People watch a television screen showing…

President Trump may want more than the long-anticipated minerals and economic partnership deal to end the pause he has put on U.S. military and intelligence support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, but his specific terms for restarting aid remain murky.”The president of the United States did not say it has ended. He said it is paused. That is transitional,” U.S. envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg told Margaret Brennan in conversation at Council on Foreign Relations on Thursday. The envoy indicated he personally was unaware of what would determine that decision.”That’s his call. And I would leave it up…

The following is the transcript of an interview with Fiona Hill, former White House Russia expert, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on March 9, 2025.MARGARET BRENNAN: Russia stepped up its aerial attacks on Ukraine following the Trump administration’s suspension of intelligence sharing and military equipment. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow has carried out hundreds of attacks using ballistic missiles and drones. For more now we’re joined by Fiona Hill. She is a senior fellow at Brookings, and during the first Trump administration, she was the senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National…

John Mulaney is a comedy superstar finding the funny in the familiar.  At 42, he already has five highly-rated specials to his name … three primetime Emmys … and a reputation as one of the best stand-up guys in the game.”Now, I don’t know if you’ve been following the news but I’ve been keeping my ears open, and it seems like everyone everywhere is super-mad about everything all the time.”But for his new job, the stand-up is sitting down. Mulaney is hosting a talk show on Netflix, complete with a couch and celebrity guests. And the whole thing is live,…