Casey Wasserman, 2028 Olympics chair, to sell agency after Epstein files revelation

Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, says he is selling his eponymous talent agency in the wake of the release of emails between himself and Ghislaine Maxwell. Wasserman’s emails with Maxwell were revealed by his appearance in recently released government files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wasserman, whose

DHS shutdown begins with no deal in sight

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security has ground to a halt in a dispute in Congress over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The partial shutdown was impacting the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard and FEMA, among other agencies. Willie James Inman reports. Original CBS News Link

Obama on ICE shootings in Minnesota: “This is not the America we believe in”

Former President Barack Obama spoke out in a recent interview on the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement shootings in Minnesota that took the lives of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and addressed the state of the country.   Obama sat down with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen for a wide-ranging interview released on Saturday, providing

Trump insider Tom Barrack kept in contact with Epstein for years, files show

President Trump’s longtime confidant Thomas Barrack, now serving as U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, was in regular, close contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor, a CBS News analysis of over 100 texts and email exchanges from the newly released Justice Department documents shows.

Rubio calls for U.S. and Europe to “revitalize an old friendship”

Munich —Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a message of reassurance in remarks at the Munich Security Conference, calming some fears that months of sharp U.S. rhetoric and policy disputes had opened a lasting breach between Washington and its European allies. “We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization

Rubio sticks to Trump’s firm stance, takes softer tone in speech to allies

Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a reassuring message to America’s allies on Saturday, striking a less aggressive but still firm tone about the administration’s intent to reshape the trans-Atlantic alliance and push its priorities after more than a year of President Donald Trump’s often-hostile rhetoric toward traditional allies. Reminding his audience at the annual

What services will be affected by the DHS government shutdown?

Washington — The Department of Homeland Security officially shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, after Congress failed to pass a bill to fund its operations before a stopgap measure lapsed.  Democrats had made a number of demands to restrain the government’s immigration crackdown in exchange for their support of the funding measure but could