Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine are briefing reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon after President Trump said Tuesday night he’d agreed to an immediate, conditional two-week ceasefire with Iran. After the announcement, there were signs that shipping traffic was picking up in the vital Strait of Hormuz. “I agree to suspend
Washington — Vice President JD Vance, who is on a trip to Hungary, called the U.S.-Iran ceasefire a “fragile truce” on Wednesday. He said the Iranian foreign minister responded favorably to the agreement, but that others in the country are “lying.” “This is why I say this is a fragile truce,” Vance said in Budapest.
Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of renewed contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms. Religious leaders, teachers, parents and students spent hours Tuesday before the state education board arguing about the reading
The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, and their families. A brief notice from the Office of Personnel Management could dramatically change which personally identifiable medical information the agency obtains, giving it the power to see prescriptions employees had filled or what treatment they
Chimney Rock, North Carolina — From the well-worn interior of a fire department in Western North Carolina, Markwayne Mullin reassured local officials that as homeland security secretary, he intends to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency — not eliminate it. Mullin, on his first official visit in his new role, traveled to Chimney Rock, a
President Trump said Tuesday he has agreed to a “double sided CEASEFIRE” with Iran, less than two hours before his deadline for Iran to either cut a deal with the U.S. or face massive strikes on its power plants. “I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks,”
Washington — Republican Clay Fuller won Tuesday’s runoff election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, CBS News projects, padding the House GOP’s razor-thin margin by an additional vote. Fuller beat Democrat Shawn Harris in the northwest Georgia district after the two advanced from a crowded field of candidates in