Washington — A bipartisan congressional delegation will visit Denmark later this week for meetings as President Trump threatens to take over Greenland. Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware is leading the trip to Copenhagen, which includes several other members of Congress, including Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. The group is expected to meet
President Trump has been briefed on a wide array of military and covert tools that can be used against Iran that go well beyond conventional airstrikes, according to two Defense Department officials who spoke to CBS News under condition of anonymity to discuss national security matters. The president’s national security team will hold a meeting
Washington — Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s exiled crown prince, called on President Trump to take action against the Iranian regime sooner rather than later, as protesters in his homeland take to the streets despite a deadly crackdown. In an interview with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell on Monday, Pahlavi said, “We need action to be taken.” “The
The second-highest ranking federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia was fired on Monday, after he refused to help lead the Justice Department’s prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News. Robert McBride, a former longtime federal prosecutor in Kentucky’s Eastern District, had only been on
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to consider whether states can forbid transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, stepping into a high-stakes fight that has been simmering for years. Twenty-seven states have enacted laws that prohibit transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports. President Trump signed
Washington — Sen. Elizabeth Warren and President Trump don’t agree on much, but Warren suggests they might be able to work together on capping credit card interest rates and potentially addressing other cost-of-living issues. Mr. Trump has expressed a desire to cap credit card rates, something that Warren, a progressive Democrat from Massachusetts, has long
Despite President Trump’s social media pronouncement Sunday that “there will be no more oil or money going to Cuba — zero,” the current U.S. policy is to allow Mexico to continue to provide oil to the island, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright and another U.S. official. Cuba desperately needs the oil, since Venezuela is