The Justice Department is looking into allegations that Corey Lewandowski, a former top adviser to ex-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, used his DHS position for financial gain, two sources familiar with the investigation confirmed to CBS News. The probe was opened after the Justice Department received a referral from DHS’ Office of Inspector General,…
Airbnb is updating its rules to shield visitors from onerous cleaning tasks it says could negatively impact their stay. The new policy, announced this week, prevents hosts from asking guests to strip beds, start a load of laundry and other household chores Airbnb says “require significant effort or time” and would typically be performed by…
Zane Shah arrives at school at 8:45 a.m., greets his friends and stores his backpack in the assigned cubby. It could be any middle school morning. But one thing about Shah’s school is different: There are no traditional teachers. Shah, 13, is an eighth grader at Alpha School, a network of private, for-profit institutions that…
Over the past week, Ukraine has received a stark reminder of its growing dependence on uninterrupted access to Elon Musk’s Starlink and Starshield networks in its drone-heavy war against Russia, now in its fifth year. Ukraine has a fraction of Russia’s resources, but its aggressive development of drone warfare on defensive and offensive fronts has…
The candidates in Kansas’ surprisingly competitive Senate race faced off in a debate Wednesday evening, as Republicans fight to head off the possibility of their first loss in a Kansas Senate contest in nearly a century. Incumbent GOP Sen. Roger Marshall hammered away at what it would mean if he were to lose — that…
A federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s practice of knocking on doors and asking people about their immigration status — and whether they have voted in recent elections — likely violates the Voting Rights Act. The ruling took aim at an operation that was documented by a CBS News…
Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed clashed onstage Wednesday during the second, and final, debate in the increasingly bitter Michigan Senate race. El-Sayed repeatedly argued his opponent is and would be a “sock puppet” for President Trump in the Senate, while Rogers cast his opponent as untrustworthy and trying to run from past, further-left…
Washington — Fr. Joseph Coleman feared he would never again see his father, Stephen Hubbard, when they had a brief phone conversation last year while Hubbard was in a Russian prison. “He was expressing a very extreme tiredness with life, the life that he was experiencing at that time. I don’t want to say suicidal…
Washington — A top official at the Justice Department is attempting to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from a pair of cases, claiming comments they made to the New York Times about the Trump administration’s handling of immigration cases in the state call their impartiality into question. The motions, filed against Judges Patrick Schiltz and…
Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia in recent weeks have inflicted severe losses on the kingdom, with missiles hitting energy infrastructure and civilian airports, killing at least 20 people. The Iranian proxy group has struck the headquarters of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, and is fighting Saudi-backed government forces for control of Yemen’s coastline…
