Faced with a deadline to provide evidence in its deportation case against activist Mahmoud Khalil, lawyers for the federal government instead filed a memorandum by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to a Louisiana immigration court. In the memo, which was obtained by CBS News, Rubio wrote that Khalil’s role in protests on the campus of
Postal workers rally against any efforts to dismantle USPS Postal workers rally against any efforts to dismantle USPS 00:57 The U.S. Postal Service is seeking a rate increase this summer that includes hiking the cost of a first-class stamp from 73 cents to 78 cents. The request was made Wednesday to the Postal Regulatory Commission,
A man already jailed on federal charges of attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate President Mr. Trump as he golfed last fall will face additional state terrorism and attempted murder charges, Florida’s attorney general said Thursday. Ryan Routh tried to undermine the country’s political system and will face state attempted first-degree murder and terrorism charges, Attorney
U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink intends to resign from her post early, three sources told CBS News. The State Department confirmed her intent to step down Thursday afternoon. “Ambassador Brink is stepping down. She’s been the ambassador there for three years – that’s a long time in a war zone. And frankly, the war has
A Senate committee heard from several experts Thursday on setting a year-round time standard, a few months after President Trump vowed to get rid of daylight saving time. “Time is always complicated and the system we have is complicated, but it’s complicated because it’s a human creation,” said Scott Yates, the founder of the Stop
As President Trump announced a pause to his sweeping reciprocal tariffs Wednesday, his trade representative, Jamieson Greer, was in the middle of testifying at a House hearing on the administration’s trade policy. Greer appeared to learn of the president’s decision to pause the tariffs for 90 days the same time the public did, as he
Washington — The House on Thursday adopted a budget blueprint for President Trump’s agenda after Republican leaders scrambled to convince GOP holdouts who want deeper spending cuts to back it. The resolution was adopted in a 216-214 vote, with two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana — joining all