Tracking Trends, Breaking News
US Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe speaks during a press conference in Washington, DC, on September 20, 2024. BEN CURTIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images U.S. Secret Service Deputy Director Ronald Rowe, who formerly served as acting director of the agency, announced Tuesday he’s retiring. Rowe was named to the top position in an acting capacity
Read More
Washington — The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation for director of national intelligence, after her nomination survived a crucial committee vote last week and cleared a key procedural hurdle Monday. Gabbard, 43, is a former Democratic congresswoman who represented Hawaii in the House from 2013 to 2021, and sought the party’s
Read More
Washington — Standing beside President Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Elon Musk defended the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to drastically cut spending and dismiss workers across the federal government, insisting that Americans voted for major change and the Trump administration is delivering. Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, took questions for the first
Read More
Washington — The White House announced Tuesday that it has negotiated the release of Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher who had been held in Russia since 2021. White House national security adviser Michael Waltz said that Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, was leaving Russian airspace with Fogel, who was serving
Read More
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee accused Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, of lying under oath at his confirmation hearing last month. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said he has “highly credible information” that Patel is behind the firings at the bureau, though he is not yet the FBI director.
Read More
Washington — A federal judge in Rhode Island said Monday that the Trump administration has not complied with an earlier order that blocked its freeze on federal assistance and ordered agencies to immediately restore any paused or withheld dollars during continuing legal proceedings. The move from U.S. District Judge John McConnell comes in a case
Read More
CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live CHICAGO (CBS) — President Trump will issue a pardon to former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Monday, a White House official confirmed to CBS News. The development was first reported by Axios. Blagojevich, who was originally sentenced to 14 years in prison on corruption charges for attempting to sell Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate
Read More
A coalition of attorneys general from 22 states announced Monday they are suing the Trump administration to stop steep cuts to how medical research grants are funded by the National Institutes of Health. “We will not allow the Trump Administration to unlawfully undermine our economy, hamstring our competitiveness, or play politics with our public health,”
Read More
President Trump said Sunday that he will announce 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States on Monday. Mr. Trump, speaking on Air Force One on the way to New Orleans to attend the 2025 Super Bowl, said he would also announce “reciprocal tariffs” on Tuesday or Wednesday, which he said
Read More
President Trump said Saturday that Palestinians won’t have the right to return to Gaza, and “I would own this,” expanding on his statements last week that the U.S. would “take over” and “own” the Gaza Strip, and that Palestinians should not return. The president made the comment during an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier
Read More