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Washington — Former President Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered his first public remarks since leaving office, focusing on preserving Social Security but he also urged that “we can’t go on like this as a divided nation.”   Biden assailed President Trump’s administration but did not name Mr. Trump directly. He also didn’t address his departure from…

President Trump issued a new threat to Harvard University on Tuesday after the federal government froze $2.2 billion in grant funding for the institution, suggesting that the Ivy League school “should lose its tax-exempt status and be taxed as a political entity.”  The president’s latest statement came after the Cambridge, Massachusetts institution announced Monday that…

The former top vaccines official at the Food and Drug Administration criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for downplaying the deaths of unvaccinated children from measles, amid this year’s record outbreak of the virus. “To dismiss children’s deaths due to infectious diseases that are preventable by vaccines as just expected or…

In private conversations weeks ago, senior advisers close to President Trump warned that some tariff proposals could have devastating effects on global financial markets and send the U.S. economy spiraling.  The White House has taken pains to say administration officials are unified on the tariff effort announced on April 2, which the White House dubbed…

On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan:  U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer Neel Kashkari, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Anthony Salvanto, CBS News director of elections and surveys  Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California Dr. Peter Marks, former head of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation…