Tel Aviv — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make another trip to the Middle East next week as the U.S. attempts to ramp up support for a cease-fire proposal in the Israel-Hamas war announced last week by President Biden. Blinken will make stops in Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Qatar, the White House said, where
House Republican leaders are privately gauging support for legislation that would let both current and former presidents move a state case to federal courts, four Republicans familiar with the effort confirmed to POLITICO. It already seems dead in the water. Republicans have vowed to use their slim majority to avenge former President Donald Trump after
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg signaled Friday that he is willing to testify about his prosecution of former President Donald Trump — but not next week as House Republicans proposed. Leslie Dubeck, Bragg’s general counsel, sent a letter on Friday to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, saying that the DA’s office is “committed to voluntary
A North Dakota judge has declined a request to halt enforcement of the state’s ban on new gender-transitioning procedures for minors. A group of plaintiffs is actively challenging a 2023 law that makes it a Class B felony for medical professionals to surgically remove or modify a minor’s sexual organs, perform mastectomies on a minor,
Justice Thomas discloses trips with GOP donor as justices file new reports – CBS News Watch CBS News Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is belatedly acknowledging more luxury trips paid for by billionaire Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. It’s all revealed in the latest financial disclosures of the justices, who have come under increasing scrutiny over
Prosecution rests in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial – CBS News Watch CBS News The prosecution has rested its case in the federal gun trial of Hunter Biden, the first child of a sitting U.S. president to face criminal charges. Defense attorneys called their first witness to the stand, Biden’s daughter Naomi, who testified that
A top Silicon Valley venture capitalist revealed he’s endorsing former President Donald Trump and hosted a San Francisco fundraiser for the candidate, drawing a response from the presidential hopeful on Friday. David O. Sacks, the cofounder of Craft Ventures, wrote that he hosted the fundraising event in San Francisco for the former president because he’s