Mike Pence warns Congress that Planned Parenthood will get a massive taxpayer-funded windfall if Republicans fail to extend the federal funding ban.
Amid a wave of House resignations, even members who sit on the House Ethics panel wonder if they’re doing enough to keep bad actors at bay.
President Donald Trump speaks to the press during an event outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 13, 2026. Win McNamee/Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump read passages from the Bible on April 21 from the Oval Office at the White House as part of the “America Reads the Bible” celebration.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns House seat instead of facing punishment from colleagues – CBS News Watch CBS News Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida became the latest U.S. lawmaker to step down amid allegations of ethics violations. It happened minutes before a vote to decide whether she should be forced out. Nikole Killion reports. link.lazyload {
The largest U.S. military presence in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq has gotten even larger in recent weeks with the deployment of additional forces and a third aircraft carrier. Charlie D’Agata reports on the president’s 21st-century “gunboat diplomacy.” Original CBS News Link
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (L) speaks alongside FBI Director Kash Patel during a news conference at the at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington on April 21, 2026. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on federal fraud charges that accused it of illegally raising millions of
James Earle Fraser’s bronze statue of Alexander Hamilton on the south side of the Treasury Building in Washington. Public Domain The U.S. Treasury Department on April 21 announced that it is imposing sanctions on 14 targets “for their involvement in helping the Iranian regime obtain weapons,” in contravention of international sanctions. “As the regime attempts