Washington — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing its new requirements for mail voting for the November midterm elections. The order from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani is the latest development in the legal battle over President Trump’s efforts to tighten the rules for mail voting ahead of…
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race, says now is the time for Democrats to work together ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The former Wayne County health director, who is in the middle of a contentious battle for the U.S. Senate seat against Republican Mike Rogers, caught up with CBS News…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has granted a $16.7 million no-bid contract for 6,000 gloves that can deliver electric shocks, a new use-of-force tool that the agency claims will help officers control resisting detainees and avoid using more serious or lethal weapons. Dubbed the G.L.O.V.E., or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, the device operates as…
Washington — A federal judge on Thursday pressed lawyers for Ohio Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty and the Justice Department on new efforts by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Board of Trustees to add President Trump’s name back onto the building’s facade. Lawyers for Beatty, who sued last year over Mr. Trump’s…
Canadian trade officials acknowledge that the country’s retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% on $20 billion in American goods are intended to exert pressure on the Trump administration by targeting key U.S. states. Although the negotiators haven’t identified those regions, the tariffs could hit states in the Midwest and Northeast particularly hard, according to economists’ analysis…
Washington — A coalition of 24 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to block a new rule from the U.S. Postal Service that imposes requirements for mail voting ahead of the November midterm elections. The final rule, published by the agency last Friday, came in response to an executive…
Juneau, Alaska — A candidate with the same name as Alaska’s incumbent U.S. senator advanced Tuesday to the general election in what will be one of the most closely watched races in the country this fall. Dan J. Sullivan, who goes by Dan Sullivan, was among the top four finishers after the Aug. 18 primary…
Residents of Georgia’s 13th Congressional District selected Everton Blair to serve the remainder of Rep. David Scott’s term after the longtime lawmaker’s death in April, according to a projection from The Associated Press. Blair defeated Scott’s daughter, Marcye Scott, in Tuesday’s special election. Blair, the former chair of the Gwinnett County School Board, had finished second to Scott…
Washington — Sen. Darline Graham won the Republican Senate runoff in South Carolina on Tuesday night, CBS News projects, defeating Rep. Ralph Norman in the special primary to replace Graham’s late brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham, on the ballot this November. Lindsey Graham, a four-term senator who had been seeking reelection, died suddenly last month, prompting…
The Trump administration said it may need to demolish the Kennedy Center if a plan to close the building for two years as part of a controversial renovation project pushed by President Trump and the organization’s board of trustees is blocked by a federal judge. In a Tuesday court filing, the Justice Department said the…
