President Trump plans to pardon Puerto Rico’s former governor, Wanda Vázquez Garced, who pleaded guilty last year in a federal public corruption case, multiple sources told CBS News on Friday. Her two co-defendants, the billionaire Venezuelan-Italian banker and Britannia Financial Group founder Julio Martin Herrera-Velutini and Mark Rossini, will also be pardoned for their crimes
The number of detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody has reached a new record high, surpassing 70,000 for the first time in the deportation agency’s 23-year history, according to internal Department of Homeland Security data obtained by CBS News. As of Thursday, ICE was holding about 73,000 individuals facing deportation in its custody
A bipartisan congressional delegation met with Danish and Greenlandic officials in Copenhagen Friday in an effort to show support for Greenland’s territorial integrity despite President Trump’s continued push to acquire the island. The delegation is led by Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, and Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina. Addressing reporters after
The Justice Department said late Thursday it has made “substantial progress” on its ongoing review of millions of documents that may be related to Jeffrey Epstein, thanks to the efforts of hundreds of reviewers, but did not provide any information about when the next release of files may come, despite the fact that the legal
CIA director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez for two hours Thursday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, to “deliver the message that the United States looks forward to an improved working relationship,” a U.S. official told CBS News Friday. The official described the trip as historic, noting that Ratcliffe was the first Cabinet-level
A union representing Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport employees says more than a dozen workers have been apprehended by ICE on the job — sometimes inside the terminal. Wade Luneburg with the Unite Here Local 17 union represents 1,600 people working in airport concessions and in-flight catering. He says airport employees need to pass vigorous federal
A bipartisan congressional delegation was to meet with Danish and Greenlandic officials Friday in an effort to show support for Greenland’s territorial integrity despite President Trump’s continued push to acquire the island. The White House had claimed Thursday that discussions involving Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Danish officials earlier this