Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico raised a record-breaking $64 million in three months — more than any Senate candidate ever in the third quarter — his campaign announced Thursday. The campaign said that brings Talarico’s total fundraising to $134 million since he announced his candidacy last year. His Republican opponent, Attorney General Ken Paxton,…
President Trump during a political rally in the state late Tuesday granted onstage pardons to two Alaska auto shop owners who pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act — an unusually public use of the president’s clemency power. The president said the two men — Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming — were “wrongly charged,”…
The Justice Department has loosened the guidelines for the attorney general and other senior political appointees, allowing them to participate in political activities. A memo sent this week by Assistant Attorney General Jolene Ann Laurie relaxes ethics restrictions on Senate-confirmed presidential appointees such that they can speak at rallies, canvass for votes and even serve…
White House homeland security adviser Stephen Miller spoke at a training conference for counterterrorism agents at FBI headquarters just over a week ago, days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, Katie, multiple sources told CBS News. Former Justice Department officials called the visit unusual, given the…
A group of former Cornell University students say they are being falsely connected to the alleged 2024 fraternity house rape, and smeared and targeted online, and they want the college to say explicitly that they were not among men accused in the incident. The former students, members of the Chi Phi fraternity who graduated in 2022…
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, whose new book, “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country,” comes out this week, sat down with CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford. He addressed President Trump’s criticisms of the Court and the leak of the draft of his abortion opinion that overturned…
Cornell University’s president addressed the school’s handling of the alleged gang rape of a junior at a fraternity house in 2024. Lilia Luciano reports from Ithaca, New York. Source link
Washington — The start of the Supreme Court’s new term is quickly approaching, with cases involving climate change, President Trump’s immigration policies and the Second Amendment among the most high-profile disputes the justices will hear in the coming months. But waiting in the wings at the Supreme Court are several legal battles involving Mr. Trump’s…
The U.S. military declared an end to its Iraq-based anti-ISIS operation Wednesday, saying all U.S.-led coalition forces and equipment had been withdrawn from a key base in the north of the country in line with an agreement reached previously with the Iraqi government. “The orderly departure of Coalition forces and equipment from Erbil Air Base…
The FBI and the Dutch National Police jointly arrested a suspected member of the notorious cyber group ShinyHunters on Tuesday, a week after the group claimed responsibility for defacing the FBI’s jobs website and bragged that it had stolen data about FBI personnel and job applicants. In a post on X, FBI Director Kash Patel…
