The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily blocked the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law. In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center “until further order from this court.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
Third Pentagon official put on leave Third top Pentagon official put on leave pending leak investigation 01:56 The week of turmoil affecting the Pentagon’s inner circle continued Friday, when two political appointees suspended earlier this week were terminated, multiple officials told CBS News. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, ordered an
Washington — The Trump administration on Friday started releasing the first tranche of records on Democratic Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination, with roughly 10,000 pages of previously classified records. The disclosure — ordered by President Trump within days of taking office and backed by the senator’s son, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen returned from his trip to El Salvador Friday after meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who was deported due to an administrative error. Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday, April 16, to check on Abrego Garcia’s health and well-being, a month after he was deported to a
Attorneys for a Virginia man labeled by the Trump administration as a top MS-13 gang leader are pressing a judge to hold off on dismissing his criminal case, arguing he could be deported without ever hearing — or defending himself against — the specific allegations against him. Henrry Villatoro Santos’ arrest was announced last month
Trump administration officials, anticipating supply chain strains due to steep tariffs on Chinese goods, have discussed forming a working group to deal with the problems with urgency if there’s no breakthrough with Beijing, multiple sources told CBS News. Nothing has been finalized, but the working group would likely include Vice President J.D. Vance, Treasury Secretary
The Trump administration is moving forward with a new rule to classify some career civil servants as “at-will” federal employees, a move the administration says will make it easier to fire underperforming or subversive employees. “Following my Day One Executive Order, the Office of Personnel Management will be issuing new Civil Service Regulations for career