Washington — The U.S. has seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Trump said Wednesday, escalating tensions between the two countries. Bloomberg first reported the oil tanker seizure. The president made the comment during a roundtable meeting at the White House, saying the tanker was “seized for a very good reason.”
Miami mayor-elect Eileen Higgins believes the key to her election victory Tuesday — the first for a Democrat in almost 30 years — was her outreach to people of all political persuasions. In an interview on CBS News just after the election, CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett asked her about the “Trump effect;”
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points, bringing the federal funds rate to its lowest level in more than three years. The reduction lowers the federal funds rate — what banks charge each other for short-term loans — to between 3.5% and 3.75%, down from its prior range
The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country, including five years of their social media history, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice this week. Citizens of 42 countries enrolled in the visa
Bekki Holzkamm has been trying to hire a lab technician at a hospital in rural North Dakota since late summer. Not one U.S. citizen has applied. West River Health Services in Hettinger, a town of about 1,000 residents in the southwestern part of the state, has four options, and none is good. The hospital could
Washington — A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration from deploying members of the California National Guard in Los Angeles and directed it to return control of the Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The decision Wednesday from U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer is the second in which he has ruled against the Trump
Washington — The House is poised to vote Wednesday on a $900 billion defense policy bill as both chambers race to pass it before the end of the year. Lawmakers on Sunday evening unveiled the 3,086-page compromise bill, which authorizes $8 billion more than what the Trump administration requested. “This year’s National Defense Authorization Act