Washington — President Trump said Monday that he is deploying members of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and that the federal government has taken control of the D.C. police as part of a push to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital, despite data showing crime has declined in the city in recent
The NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, is kicking off a series of town halls this week in an effort to mobilize Black voters around the country more than a year ahead of the 2026 midterms. “It may still seem far away, but the 2026 midterm elections will determine whether our democracy still holds
Washington — A federal judge on Monday denied a request from the Trump administration to unseal grand jury material in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, saying there is nothing in the grand jury record that would shed
Washington — President Trump is holding a news conference Monday morning to address crime in the nation’s capital amid an effort to scale up law enforcement in Washington, D.C., after the president suggested a possible federal takeover. The Trump administration deployed about 450 federal law enforcement officers overnight Sunday across D.C. from a number of
Washington — Just over a year ago, federal judges, defenders and a group of lawyers who represent criminal indigent defendants gathered at the U.S. courthouse in Baltimore to hear federal Judge Myron Thompson give an address. Thompson, who sits on the district court in Alabama, and the others were there to commemorate the 60th anniversary
Sen. Ruben Gallego, one of several Democrats possibly thinking ahead to the next White House race, made the trip from Arizona to work the grill at the Iowa State Fair this weekend. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe met him there. Original CBS News Link</a
Countdown begins to Friday’s Trump-Putin meeting without Zelenskyy – CBS News Watch CBS News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is thanking European leaders for backing his push to join this week’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, insisting an end to the war must be fair. Willie James Inman has more from the White House. link.lazyload { position: