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Trump's tariff hike on steel causes fresh uncertainty
President Trump on Friday announced a doubling of tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum from 25% t…
President Trump on Friday announced a doubling of tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum from 25% t…
President Trump flexed the power of his office this week, issuing a blitz of pardons and commutations. The pr…
Jared Isaacman was a close associate of Elon Musk, whose SpaceX company has multiple contracts with NASA. f…
Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who has close ties to Elon Musk, was President Trump's pick to s…
A bipartisan duo met with the Ukrainian president and made the case for Congress to impose harsh economic pen…
Trump administration officials, MAGA influencers and far-right leaders gathered in Poland and Hungary this we…
Elon Musk told "CBS Sunday Morning" that he has some "differences of opinion" with the Tr…
The U.S. has sent an Israeli-backed cease-fire proposal that would allow the flow of aid into Gaza. Hamas app…
The U.S. Court of International Trade blocked Trump's 10% tariff assessed on nearly every U.S. trading pa…
President Trump has expressed optimism recently that there would be a deal for a new Israel-Hamas ceasefire i…
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted dozens of men’s sentences to life without parole, but the Trump admini…
The requirement — driven by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency — ended Wednesday, and civili…
The president tapped his former defense lawyer to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which…
Former Rep. Michael Grimm was convicted of tax fraud and related charges in November 2014.
The Trump administration is planning to expand social media screenings for international students applying fo…
A group of G.O.P. senators has grown more vocal about urging penalties on Russia for its aggression against U…
President Trump has always claimed he had a good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and argue…
Prime Minister Mark Carney invited King Charles III to visit Canada and give a speech from the throne after P…
In a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, President Trump highlighted the sacrifices of soldiers and their …
President Trump said he would give the European Union more time to negotiate a trade deal before a 50 percent…
President Trump is defending his executive order preventing Harvard from enrolling international students. Th…
House Speaker Mike Johnson shepherded through Congress President Trump's spending bill, which includes Me…
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan that he …
President Trump had promised to lift sanctions during his trip to the Middle East, where he met with Presiden…
The president said the graduating cadets would enter a service no longer subject to “absurd ideological exper…
The U.S. deported a Guatemalan man to Mexico while he was seeking asylum for fear of being harmed in those co…
Among a flurry of executive actions, Mr. Trump directed the nation’s nuclear safety regulator to speed up app…
A district court judge had ordered DOGE to turn over information to a government watchdog group about its ope…
By the end of the year, taxpayers may have paid around $12 million for Tom Homan's security.
In 50 years, California’s authority to set environmental rules that are tougher than national standards had n…
The budget bill passed by the House includes a provision to quadruple the state and local tax deduction, a bo…
He had announced late last year that he was being treated for cancer of the esophagus. He told his constituen…
ICE officials and a prison contractor refused to grant a contact visit between Mahmoud Khalil and his family…
President Trump wants a "Golden Dome" missile defense system like Israel's Iron Dome.
State Representative Laurel Libby, a Republican, had been banned from voting over comments opposing transgend…
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to lift protections for thousands of Venezuelans, leaving …
Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby was censured by colleagues for a social media post calling out a transgender at…
Republican tax bill could cost $3.8 trillion over 10 years as its tax cuts surpass spending reductions, accor…
The president recently attacked Walmart, saying it should “eat” the costs rather than pass them on to custome…
The law requires platforms to remove images and videos, including deepfakes generated by artificial intellige…
Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with cancer. Well wishes and prayers are pouring in.
The diagnosis came after doctors found a “small nodule” on Mr. Biden’s prostate that required “further evalua…
Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer that has…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said people should be "celebrating" the Trump administration grantin…
The Trump administration’s aggressive push to deport migrants has run up against resistance from the judiciar…
The following is the transcript of an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio that will air on "Fa…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan in an interview th…
The lawmakers introduced resolutions as anger erupted over a series of deals involving the president, busines…
The Government Accountability Office rejected the request, saying it reports to Congress and is exempt from o…
The Supreme Court on Friday said it will continue to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan…
The Trump administration is targeting the Ivy League university under a law typically used to go after govern…
President Trump's transportation secretary said Thursday the FAA's air traffic control system "t…
Besides El Salvador, where the United States have already sent detainees, Rwanda and Libya have records of mi…
The House is pushing forward on President Trump's "one, big beautiful bill," as the final commi…
An outspoken politician, he served four terms on the City Council and one in the California State Senate. And…
The wealthy and the powerful gathered in Saudi Arabia with the goal of becoming even more so. “They’re going …
CBS News gets a tour of a controversial ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, just days after the city's ma…
Attorney General Pam Bondi has adopted a conspicuously performative approach, willing to execute White House …
The Department of Homeland Security is focusing on a program that provides cash assistance to certain individ…
The letter comes as the commerce secretary plans to accompany President Trump to Saudi Arabia this week as pa…
Edan Alexander, a 20-year-old Israeli American who has been held hostage since October 2023, will be released…
President Trump had issued an executive order directing officials to use the U.S. refugee program to resettle…
Here's a look at the top stories making headlines on the "CBS Weekend News" with Jericka Duncan…
Trade discussions between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng ended after a d…
Tech giant Google began labeling the Gulf of Mexico with different names depending on a person's location…
David Steiner, who also served as president and chief executive officer of Waste Management Inc., is expected…
Senate Republicans had signaled that they would reject Mhim over concerns about his fitness to hold such an i…
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in March that she would be revoking the legal status of migrants…
The comments from Khawaja Muhammad Asif came after India said its forces had struck nine sites in Pakistan an…
The former Memphis officers were acquitted of all charges, including second-degree murder, in the beating dea…
A county judge, two City Council members and a former county election administrator are among Ken Paxton’s ta…
The termination of the federal grant program, called Ready To Learn, resulted in a loss of $23 million that w…
President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met in the Oval Office, where Carney told Mr. Trump t…
The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs we…
The popular two-term governor of Georgia had been seen as the strongest potential Republican challenger to Se…
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will not challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in one of next year's mos…
President Trump is insisting the economy is fine as new tariffs on imported auto parts took effect this weeke…
Enrique Tarrio said he told Mr. Trump that he had saved his life by including him in a blanket grant of cleme…
Mr. Trump has repeatedly vowed to secure U.S. control of Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdo…
PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Sunday that "we have never seen a circumstance like this" after President…
Here's a look at the top stories making headlines on the "CBS Weekend News" with Jericka Duncan…
A progressive member of Congress for two decades, he resigned as mayor after 18 women accused him of sexual h…
The lawsuit, which names the governor and mayor as defendants, is the latest move by the White House to try t…
In a social media post, President Trump said he wanted to celebrate victories in the World Wars. But most liv…
Senators expressed concern with a military budget they said was far too scant, and one objected to the plan’s…
President Trump's budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 would cut spending at the majority of departments …
Behind the scenes, a top department official pressed employees to gather a list of activists and investigate …
The move was a reversal of a Biden-era policy that banned federal investigators from going after reporters’ n…
Charts show how each Democratic and Republican senator voted on President Trump's Cabinet picks and selec…