The White House on Wednesday declassified information claiming the FBI opened an investigation into whether President Trump was acting as an asset for Russia when he fired FBI Director James Comey, a theory an administration official said was not backed up by evidence. The official said the investigation, known as Oxferd Comma, was a subcomponent…
Geoffrey Fieger, who campaigned with the flamboyant theatrics he used as Jack Kevorkian’s lawyer, won a narrow victory in the Democratic primary for Michigan’s governor. “There’s a movement going on here, and that movement will turn out voters in unprecedented numbers,” Fieger said Wednesday at a news conference where he claimed victory. He renewed his…
Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican state Sen. John Braun will advance to the general election in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, CBS News projects. Washington has nonpartisan primaries, with the top two candidates with the most votes appearing on the November ballot. Gluesenkamp Perez and Braun beat seven other candidates to advance. The race…
Trump-endorsed state lawmaker Rick Brattin has won the Republican nomination for Missouri’s 5th Congressional District, CBS News projects, setting up a battle against an 11-term Democrat in a district that was made dramatically more GOP-leaning last year. Brattin defeated a crowded field of GOP primary candidates Tuesday. Incumbent Rep. Emanuel Cleaver ran for the Democratic…
Republican Douglas Ollivant is projected to win the GOP primary for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. He will face Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman in November. Ollivant is a former official at the White House’s National Security Council who graduated from West Point. Vindman also served as a lawyer on the National Security Council, and he and…
A man was arrested near the Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles County over the weekend after authorities found ammunition and a gun inside his car, just days before the president’s planned Southern California visit for a Republican National Committee event on Tuesday. In a news release shared by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,…
Rep. Wesley Bell on Tuesday beat former congresswoman Cori Bush in a heated Democratic primary in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, CBS News projects. The race was the latest display of intraparty rifts between establishment Democrats and democratic socialists over the future of the party and the U.S. alliance with Israel. Given the district’s heavily Democratic…
The State Department has revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to the United States, according to a senior department official, marking the latest escalation in a growing diplomatic dispute between Washington and Brasília. The official said the visa for Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti would be reinstated immediately if Brazil grants diplomatic approval, known as agrément,…
The names of three people killed by a gunman who opened fire Saturday at an In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, were released by authorities Tuesday. Twin Falls police officially identified the victims as 23-year-old Ashley Garibay, of Stockton, California, 66-year-old Dale Schultz of Salt Lake City, Utah, and 59-year-old Christopher Claunch, of Hagerman, Idaho….
Washington — The U.S. has used nearly all of its global stockpile of long-range precision missiles during the war with Iran, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter tell CBS News. Specifically, the U.S. has used virtually all of its Army Tactical Missile Systems, known as ATACMS, and Precision Strike Missiles, the sources said….
