Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a bill signing in the State Capitol on April 23, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Abbott asks Treasury Secy. Bessent to suspend tax-exempt status of CAIR and to launch probe into group

Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott has escalated his campaign against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), formally asking U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to suspend the Muslim civil-rights organization’s federal tax-exempt status and launch an immediate investigation into its activities.

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(Background) In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner attend a meeting with Russia's President at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 2, 2025. (Photo by Kristina Kormilitsyna / POOL / AFP via Getty Images) / (R) In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner (both not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 2, 2025. (Photo by Alexander KAZAKOV / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Envoy meets Putin in Moscow as U.S. continues push for end to Ukraine-Russia War

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials at the Kremlin on Tuesday, in the latest White House bid to persuade Moscow to end its ongoing invasion of Ukraine — just hours after Putin declared Russia would be “ready right away” to fight Europe if attacked.

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