Employers across the U.S. are likely to face sharply higher health insurance costs next year, which could drive up how much workers pay for medical coverage, according to a recent survey. Health benefits consulting firm Marsh projects that the total health benefit cost per employee, which measures both employer and employee premium contributions, will rise…
President Trump on Thursday named Adam Telle, a civilian leader in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as the acting Army secretary, following the resignation of Dan Driscoll earlier this week. Telle is currently the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works. But he spent more than 20 years working for Republican senators, and…
The FBI is turning to artificial intelligence as a tool to identify threats and fight crime, targeting transnational criminal organizations and drug cartels, Deputy Director Christopher Raia told CBS News on Thursday, three weeks after the bureau released data showing a significant drop in violent crime rates around the country. Raia, a 23-year veteran of…
The federal government plans to start excavation over the next two weeks on a massive triumphal arch across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said Thursday, launching a controversial project championed by President Trump. Construction at the site is expected to take two to three years, with an intense…
Washington — Federal prosecutors have charged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Venezuelan immigrant in Minnesota with making false statements to investigators about the incident, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News. The officer, Christian Castro, was charged in May by local prosecutors, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has refused…
Earlier this year, a super PAC supporting Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton received four checks totaling over $1 million from an organization called Preserve Texas, Inc. Preserve Texas is not registered as a political committee and has not filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission that could reveal where the money came from. Instead,…
10m ago Iranian state TV says 4 killed by U.S. strike on wedding party in country’s south Iran’s IRIB state television network reported Wednesday that a wedding celebration in the southern province of Hormozgan was struck by three missiles, killing at least four people and leaving dozens more wounded. The Iranian foreign ministry earlier…
At least 20 generals, admirals and civilian defense leaders have been fired or have departed their jobs since Pete Hegseth became defense secretary at the beginning of the second Trump administration. Some of the military’s most decorated leaders have either been fired by Hegseth and President Trump or have retired with little explanation, including the…
31m ago Trump posts AI-generated video he says shows Kharg Island attack President Trump shared an AI-generated video on his Truth Social platform late Sunday depicting what he said was Iran’s strategic oil hub of Kharg Island under attack. “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!” Mr. Trump wrote in his post accompanying the video….
On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut Rep. John James, Republican of Michigan David Becker, CBS News election security analyst Afghan General Haibatullah Alizai Click here to browse full transcripts from 2026 of “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.” MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m…
