
Ellee Watson
Reporter and Producer at CBS News
Covering the Pentagon for @CBSNews. [email protected] @elleewatson.bsky.social
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1 day ago |
cbsnews.com | Camilo Montoya-Galvez |Ellee Watson |Jacob Rosen |Jake Rosen
A top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official on Thursday detailed what she said were deplorable and unsafe conditions faced by ICE staff and a group of migrants with criminal records who were transferred to a U.S. military base in the African country of Djibouti after a federal judge blocked officials from deporting them to South Sudan.
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3 days ago |
cbsnews.com | Ellee Watson |Jim LaPorta |Nikole Killion
Washington — The U.S. Navy is considering renaming multiple naval ships named after civil rights leaders and prominent American voices, CBS News has learned. Among them is the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler named after the slain gay rights leader and Navy veteran. U.S. Navy documents obtained by CBS News and used to brief the secretary of the Navy and his chief of staff show proposed timelines for rolling out the name change of the USNS Harvey Milk to the public.
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3 days ago |
cbsnews.com | Ellee Watson |Jennifer Jacobs |Kathryn Watson
The Trump administration is planning to move Greenland from the purview of U.S. European Command to U.S. Northern Command, several U.S. officials told CBS News. Moving Greenland to Northern Command, which is in charge of defending the homeland, is a symbolic statement suggesting a view of Greenland as more a part of the defense of the U.S. than of Europe. In the eyes of the U.S., the move treats Greenland more like Canada and less like a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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3 days ago |
flipboard.com | Ellee Watson |Jennifer Jacobs |Kathryn Watson
6 hours ago 'Musk's failure is glaring, and it's a pity' The head of Tesla and SpaceX, who recently left the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), failed to stem the rise in the federal budget … 6 hours ago Ex-Homeland Security official Taylor fights back against Trump's 'unprecedented' investigation order WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Homeland Security official during President Donald Trump’s first administration who authored an anonymous op-ed sharply critical of the president is calling...
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1 week ago |
cbsnews.com | Jim LaPorta |Ellee Watson
Washington — Transgender military service members must come forward and voluntarily leave active-duty service next week, by June 6, according to Defense Department issued by Secretary Pete Hegseth. After that, the military is expected to begin involuntary separations for active-duty trans service members who remain.
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