US military shot down border patrol drone with laser in Texas, lawmakers say

The U.S. military shot down a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone with a laser in Texas on Thursday, according to Democratic lawmakers, prompting the closure of airspace near the U.S.-Mexico border.  Democratic Reps. Rick Larsen (Wash.), Bennie Thompson (Miss.) and Andre Carson (Ind.) said in a joint statement Thursday evening that the Pentagon reportedly

Federal Reserve seeking to quash subpoenas in DOJ investigation, source says

The Federal Reserve has been mounting a closed-door effort to block the Justice Department’s subpoenas for chairman Jerome Powell, CBS News has learned. In January, Powell revealed that the Federal Reserve had received grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into him.  The subpoenas threatened a criminal indictment

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This photo of Lutnick on Epstein’s island was removed from DOJ files

A photo released last month by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein files that showed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein’s island in the Caribbean has been removed from the Justice Department’s website. The photo, which has been authenticated by CBS News, shows Epstein, Lutnick, and three