Washington — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will appear Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing to take over the role on a permanent basis, where he is set to face tough questions about hot-button issues he has been involved in during his time at the Justice Department. Democrats are expected to…
China and the United States agreed to establish a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications following a three-day summit between President Xi Jinping and President Trump in Washington, the two governments said Saturday. They also agreed to continue cooperating through a Board of Trade focused on selected bilateral issues….
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and several of his co-defendants, after politically appointed leaders in the Justice Department decided to kill the case in May. But in an unusual twist, U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis for the Eastern District of New York refused to…
Two drones were spotted flying over a German military base earlier this week, just two days after a drone carrying explosives was found at a cargo airport, the German Armed Forces said on Saturday. Security surveillance at the Bundeswehr base in Mechernich reported seeing two drones around 10 p.m. on Thursday, according to a statement…
London — The U.K. government announced Tuesday that it was joining 11 other nations with plans to sanction trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The move quickly drew a warning of repercussions from the U.S. ambassador in Israel, and Israel’s own president called it “gross interference.” In a joint statement, the U.K.,…
Voters in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday advanced state Sen. Aisha Wahab and Melissa Hernandez in the special primary election that will decide who will fill the remainder of former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s congressional seat. The highest-profile contenders in the special primary for California’s 14th Congressional District were Wahab and another Democrat, Bay…
Turning a basketball arena into a wedding venue fit for a superstar might sound intimidating. But for celebrity event planners and designers, it’s just another day. Rumors have been swirling about Taylor Swift’s impending nuptials to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Law enforcement sources told CBS News the pair plan to tie the…
A woman who served as a juror in Lindsay Clancy’s high-profile Massachusetts murder trial provided a look at deliberations, saying there was too much doubt for her to reach a guilty verdict. Clancy’s murder trial ended in a mistrial on Friday due to a hung jury. According to a note sent to the judge by…
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The husband of a North Carolina woman who went missing last week while visiting the Caribbean island of Grenada said Wednesday he believes “there was no foul play” in her disappearance. Cailen Waddell, the husband of Elizabeth Waddell, said in a statement that the ongoing investigation will focus on tracing his wife’s movements in the…
