A photo op was worth a thousand words for House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday as he stood alongside former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, presenting a united front at a critical time in Johnson’s tenure to announce a new GOP “election integrity” bill. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president,
The Biden administration on Friday said it’s canceling $7.4 billion in student debt for 277,000 borrowers, with the recipients scheduled to receive emails today to alert them to their loan discharges. The latest effort extends the debt relief provider under President Joe Biden after the Supreme Court last year blocked his administration’s plan for broad-based student
A Colorado campaign that’s trying to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution has gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot this November, CBS News has learned. To amend Colorado’s constitution, petitioners must gather 124,238 signatures from the state’s voters, including 2% of the total registered voters in each of Colorado’s 35
Nearly a quarter of adults disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year say they are now uninsured, according to a survey released Friday that details how tens of millions of Americans struggled to retain coverage in the government insurance program for low-income people after pandemic-era protections began expiring last spring. The first national survey of
Justice Department announces new rule targeting “gun show loophole” – CBS News Watch CBS News The Justice Department on Thursday announced a new rule designed to require unlicensed dealers selling firearms at gun shows or online to run background checks on buyers. The rule is meant to close what is known as the “gun show
Arizona Supreme Court’s abortion ruling sparks fear, uncertainty – CBS News Watch CBS News Following the Arizona Supreme Court ruling Tuesday that clears the way to reinstate an 1864 law that would ban nearly all abortions, some local healthcare providers are worried about what could happen. Janet Shamlian has more. View CBS News In Be
Washington — A group of members of Congress from Maryland unveiled legislation on Thursday that would pay for the reconstruction and repair of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed last month when a container ship struck one of the bridge’s main supports. The two-page bill, dubbed the Baltimore BRIDGE Relief Act, would have the