D.C. prepares for President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration

D.C. prepares for President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration – CBS News Watch CBS News Less than a week before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, CBS News sat down with members of the Inauguration Committee who have been preparing for a peaceful transfer of power. “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah

Trump to install Texas border czar as Border Patrol chief, sources say

The incoming Trump administration is planning to install Texas’ border czar as head of U.S. Border Patrol, replacing the career official who currently leads the agency in charge of stopping the illicit movement of migrants and drugs. Mike Banks, who has spearheaded Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, is expected to be appointed Border Patrol

Trump names Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone his Hollywood envoys

President-elect Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.” On Wednesday, the President-elect announced on his social media site that the three actors would

Bessent calls for stronger Russia sanctions at treasury confirmation hearing

Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Treasury secretary, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building on Jan. 16, 2025.  Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be treasury secretary, Scott Bessent fielded sharp questions Thursday at his confirmation hearing from Democrats and Republicans on

Judgment in Trump fraud case stands at $502 million before inauguration

Quietly, just before the calendar turned for the new year, an already whopping debt tentatively owed by President-elect Donald Trump and co-defendants in his New York civil fraud case hit an eye-popping, interest-accumulating milestone: half a billion dollars.   Trump, two of his sons and a former executive at his company were ordered in February