Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will serve as the FBI’s co-deputy director, alongside the law enforcement agency’s current second-in-command, Dan Bongino. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the news on X, saying Bailey “took on the swamp, fought weaponized government, and defended the Constitution” as Missouri’s top law enforcement official. Bailey will resign from his
Two weeks after fleeing in protest, Texas House Democrats returned to the state. Their homecoming allows the Republican-led House to pass a partisan, redrawn congressional map, possibly giving more seats to the GOP during the 2026 midterm elections. Omar Villafranca has the latest. Original CBS News Link</a
At least five Republican-led states have moved to deploy members of their National Guard forces to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington, D.C., through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness. The governors of Mississippi and Louisiana on Monday announced they would be sending 200 and 135
President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders at the White House to discuss the path forward on a possible resolution to the war in Ukraine. Nancy Cordes reports. Then, Holly Williams has the latest on Russian attacks on Ukraine. Original CBS News Link</a
President Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power. “We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots,”
Twenty states and the District of Columbia sued the Justice Department on Monday for adding a new immigration enforcement rule to federal grants that assist victims of crime — arguing it’s part of the Trump administration’s crackdown against “sanctuary states.” The lawsuit focuses on the Office for Victims of Crime, a 42-year-old division of the
President Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House on Aug. 18, 2025. Getty Images The two presidents’ comments at the top of the meeting laid out what each is hoping to accomplish in today’s talks. For Mr. Trump, he said he is pushing for consensus among the