House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, says he agrees with Elon Musk’s characterization of President Trump’s domestic policy bill as a “disgusting abomination,” torching what he called a “Republican civil war” among GOP lawmakers in an interview with CBS News. “What Elon Musk said is the stone-cold reality,” Jeffries said in an
The Trump administration is preparing to end a federal domestic surveillance program for travelers that’s meant to ferret out terrorist threats but has sometimes ended up saddling Americans with inconvenient or invasive searches at U.S. airports. President Trump plans to discontinue the Transportation Security Administration’s “Quiet Skies” program, multiple sources told CBS News. An announcement
Washington — GOP leaders in Congress appeared undeterred Wednesday as Elon Musk ramped up his criticism of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” with a barrage of posts slamming the measure, raising questions about whether Republicans can remain united around the centerpiece legislation of Mr. Trump’s second-term agenda. In a post on X on Tuesday, Musk
The Trump administration has returned a Guatemalan man to the United States after a judge determined he was wrongly deported without due process, his legal team told CBS News. The man, who has gone by O.C.G. in court proceedings, landed in the United States today and made contact with lawyers representing him after he landed,
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the Trump administration to give more than 100 Venezuelan men it sent to a supermax prison in El Salvador earlier this year a chance to contest their deportation, the latest development after months of legal battles over the fate of the deportees. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found
The Education Department said Wednesday that Columbia University has violated federal antidiscrimination laws and has therefore failed to meet accreditation standards. The department’s civil rights office notified the Middle States Commission on Higher Education — which accredits U.S. colleges and universities — that Columbia was out of compliance, according to a news release from the
Thomasz Szabo was an invisible menace, according to federal prosecutors. His alleged targets: They are quite visible. Szabo, a Romanian national, has pleaded guilty to leading a scheme to target dozens of politicians and social media influencers with a wave of “swatting” attacks. According to court filings, Szabo began building a network of “swatters” in