Former FBI Director James Comey said he would not be surprised if the Department of Justice brought a third indictment against him as he continues to face legal and political pressure from the Trump administration. Comey is currently awaiting a July trial over a social media post prosecutors allege was intended to threaten the life […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged a reconsideration of Pakistan‘s role in U.S.-Iran negotiations following reports that Pakistan was allowing Iranian military aircraft to park on its airfields. Pakistan allowed multiple Iranian military aircraft, including a reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering plane, to park at a Pakistani air force base, a senior U.S. official told CBS News. The […]
Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump‘s pick to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, is one step closer to confirmation. The Senate voted 49-44 Monday to move toward a final vote on Warsh’s nomination to serve on the Fed board, with Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Chris Coons (D-DE) joining Republicans. […]
Years-old text messages allegedly from Hunter Biden appear to show discussions about paying women for sex, arranging their interstate travel, and wiring them money in exchanges released on Monday that Republican lawmakers say the Biden Justice Department quietly sat on for years without pursuing potential Mann Act or prostitution-related charges. The tranche of 150 pages […]
The mayor of Arcadia, California, was charged with acting as an illegal agent for China after allegedly helping promote Beijing-backed propaganda in the United States. Eileen Wang, 58, elected to the Arcadia City Council in November 2022, was charged with one count of acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government, […]
The Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama officials to redraw their congressional map on Monday, weeks after striking down Louisiana’s second black-majority congressional district. Alabama officials filed petitions to the Supreme Court last month urging the justices to quickly toss out a ruling that required the state to use a congressional map with two […]
President Donald Trump is doling out a plum ambassador post to Kari Lake, tapping her to represent the United States in Jamaica after her rocky tenure leading the Voice of America. The White House announced Lake’s nomination on Monday, two months after a federal judge overturned her efforts to largely shutter the federal news service […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Democrats need to pursue judicial reform after the Supreme Court handed Republicans a victory by repealing a section of the Voting Rights Act permitting redistricting by race. Jeffries criticized the decision, saying on MS Now Saturday, it threw the “American South back into the Jim Crow era” and […]
Sen. John Cornyn’s repost of a tweet from the ‘Republicans against Trump’ account sparked backlash from the MAGA, with some labeling him a “fake Republican.” CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Margaret Brennan made an X post on the Pentagon’s classified briefing on the impact of the Iran conflict on U.S. weapons systems, prompting a response […]
The Department of Justice on Monday announced criminal charges against more than 25 people in a nationwide crackdown targeting Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, saying the operation resulted in the seizure of more than 80 firearms and 40 pounds of narcotics across multiple states. Federal prosecutors said the defendants, many of whom they said are […]
