Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves ICE detention after judge ordered release

Washington — Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to his Maryland home Thursday night, after a judge ordered the immediate release of the Salvadoran national who was mistakenly deported to his home country earlier this year. Abrego Garcia’s attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, told CBS News on Thursday that he was officially out of Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in

Trump pardons election official Tina Peters, but she was charged in state court

President Trump said Thursday evening he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who is serving a nine-year state sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines — even though the president’s pardon power is widely understood to only apply to federal crimes. “Democrats have been relentless in their targeting of

Johnson says boat strike hit “able-bodied” survivors who were “not injured”

House Speaker Mike Johnson, after viewing a video of the U.S. military’s controversial Sept. 2 boat strikes and receiving a briefing from the commander who oversaw the mission, said Thursday that two initial survivors who were killed in a follow-on strike were “able-bodied,” and the attacks were “entirely appropriate.”  He reviewed the classified video of