The frontrunner to oversee a new national counter-fraud push at the Justice Department in the wake of revelations of massive public benefits fraud in Minnesota is a top official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, sources familiar with the decision told CBS News. Colin McDonald is being considered for the newly created position of
Washington — A bipartisan bill seeks to make it a crime to publicly share identifying information about special operations forces with the intent of threatening, intimidating or inciting violence against them. Republican Sen. Ted Budd of North Carolina and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are introducing the bill, first shared with CBS News,
Washington — President Trump on Thursday announced the “The Great Healthcare Plan,” his long-awaited health care proposal, and asked Congress to act. The outline released by the White House, however, is sparse on details. especially considering the president said as far back as his first term in office that he would be releasing a health
Washington — President Trump is hosting Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for lunch Thursday, after Machado earlier this month offered to share her Nobel Prize with him for what she said was his “historic” action in Venezuela, the removal of Nicolás Maduro from power. “I certainly would love to be able to personally tell
Madison Sheahan, the No. 2 official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and close ally of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, is leaving the agency to run for Congress, two U.S. officials familiar with the move told CBS News on Thursday. Sheahan was installed as ICE’s deputy director in March, when the Trump administration overhauled the
Washington — A panel of judges on a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a district court judge did not have the authority to order the release of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University activist who has been targeted by the Trump administration for deportation. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
The Minneapolis Delegation of the Minnesota House of Representatives says the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Somalis is “a significant departure from decades of bipartisan humanitarian policy.” “These decisions place long-standing Minnesota residents—who have lived, worked, and raised families here legally—at immediate risk of losing their lawful status and being forced