A man with the same name and party affiliation as Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is eligible to challenge the senator in the August primary, a judge ruled Friday. Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews’ ruling overturns a June 15 decision by Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher to disqualify the challenger and keep him off the…
U.S. strikes Iran after Strait of Hormuz attack – CBS News Watch CBS News The U.S. launched retaliatory strikes on Iran after Iranian forces hit a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. President Trump called the attack a “foolish violation” of the ceasefire between nations. Source link
Washington — Louisianans are voting Saturday in the state’s Republican Senate runoff, as two candidates vie to replace Sen. Bill Cassidy, who did not receive enough votes in the primary to advance. Rep. Julia Letlow and Louisiana state Treasurer John Fleming are facing off in the runoff, after no candidate secured 50% of the…
Former presidential candidate and Biden-era Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday his family was targeted by a false report to Child Protective Services that led to 24 hours of confusion and separation from his four-year-old twins overnight. Michigan State Police said in a statement that the police and Child Protective Services “determined the report was…
Washington — The U.S. military says it hit Iranian targets on Friday over Iran’s drone attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first American strikes on Iran since the two countries agreed to extend an already-rickety ceasefire last week. The strikes targeted Iranian missile and drone storage facilities and radar…
President Trump is threatening to impose a 100% tariff on countries that levy a tax on U.S. companies offering digital services. In a social media post on Friday, Mr. Trump pointed to European countries considering implementing a so-called “digital services tax,” which are aimed at companies that do business in a country but lack a…
President Trump has “a fundamentally different conception of the U.S. presidency” than his predecessors, New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan explain in their new book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.” Haberman and Swan sat down with “CBS Mornings” Friday to talk about their book, which dives into the…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for a national minimum tax on billionaires and a federal fund that would give every American a stake in the wealth created by artificial intelligence, laying out a populist economic agenda in an essay published Friday on Substack. At the same time, Newsom, who is mulling a 2028 White…
An investor who employed and was close to Jeffrey Epstein is scheduled to appear before members of Congress investigating the deceased sexual abuser. Billionaire Leon Black paid Epstein extraordinary sums that his spokespeople have said was for tax advice and estate planning. Earlier this month, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote to the House…
A trove of newly released internal emails offers a new look at how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention navigated some of the most controversial public health decisions of President Trump’s second term — and, at times, chafed at pressure from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team. The…
