Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows

Less than 10% of the nation’s airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a working group that included the Federal Aviation Administration and the controllers’ union, according to a CBS News analysis of FAA data. The issue has received renewed scrutiny following Wednesday night’s midair collision

More than 1,100 EPA employees warned of immediate termination

Marie Owens-Powell, president of the union that represents more than 8,500 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency, did not mince words during a Friday call about morale among its members: “It’s bad. I’ve been with the agency for over 33 years and I’ve never seen anything like this.” Starting Wednesday morning, more than 1,100 employees

DOJ Drops Biden-Era Lawsuit Over Virginia Non-Citizen Voter Purge

The case had been sent back to the Fourth Circuit by the Supreme Court just before the 2024 election. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped a lawsuit which sought to stop the state of Virginia from removing non-citizens from its voter registration rolls. That suit, brought by the DOJ under the Biden administration, stemmed

Trump DOJ fires Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutors, FBI executives ousted

Justice Department leadership has directed Washington, D.C.’s top prosecutor, Acting U.S. Attorney Edward Martin, to fire prosecutors who were assigned to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to a memo dated Jan. 31, reviewed by CBS News and also confirmed by sources familiar with the matter. And in a separate memo, the deputy attorney

Former senior adviser for Federal Reserve indicted on economic espionage charges

A former senior adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was arrested on charges of conspiring with Chinese officials to steal Federal Reserve trade secrets, federal court filings unsealed Friday revealed.  Prosecutors allege that John Harold Rogers conspired with people in China to steal trade secrets from the Fed’s Board of Governors and Open

Anti-Israel Groups Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit For Orchestrating Traffic Blockade

Plaintiffs ‘had nothing to do with the conflict thousands of miles away,’ the lawsuit says Demonstrators from Jewish Voice For Peace protest the war in Gaza at the Canon House Building on July 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images) Several anti-Israel organizations that blocked major roadways in Washington D.C. last year were