Washington — More than a decade after the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, and just two years after it declined to unravel another piece of the law, the Supreme Court will convene on Wednesday to hear a legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional map that could reverberate throughout the nation.
Washington — President Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. struck another small boat that he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off the coast of Venezuela. The president said in a post on Truth Social that six people aboard the vessel were killed in the strike and no U.S. forces were harmed. It’s the
Naomi Pyle isn’t sure if her husband’s next paycheck from the U.S. Navy will arrive on Wednesday. The couple, who are raising two children in San Diego, California, were already struggling to make ends meet before the government shutdown on October 1, Pyle, 30, told CBS News, adding that the family won’t be able to
37m ago Johnson says “I don’t have anything to negotiate” as he refuses to bring House back House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana speaks during a House Republican news conference on the government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 14, 2025. Bill Clark House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican,
The first woman to be elected governor of Maine is set to try and accomplish what no candidate in her state has managed in more than 30 years: to defeat Republican Susan Collins. But to even have the chance to do so, Democrat Janet Mills will first have to make it through what is already
Former federal ethics officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations are asking the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. In a letter obtained by CBS News, ethics officials who worked in the Obama and George W. Bush administrations urged
House Speaker Mike Johnson blamed Democrats Monday for the government funding stalemate, deriding what he called “costly political games that are being played by Democrats here in Congress.” “We’re now on Day 13 of the Democrats’ Schumer shutdown,” Johnson said at a news conference, mentioning the Senate Democratic minority leader. “This marks the third week