Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fire his ambassador to the U.S. amid the foreign leader’s escalating tension with former President Donald Trump and his allies. In a letter to Zelenskyy on Wednesday, Johnson demanded the immediate firing of Oksana Markarova, accusing her of interfering in the presidential
Donald Trump announced a new merchandise line on Thursday: A line of watches selling for up to $100,000 each. In a Truth Social post, the former president described the timepieces as “truly special” and suggested one “would make a great Christmas gift.” The bespoke watches are the latest merchandise effort from Trump, who has licensed
For nearly two decades, there’s been an effort to change the way the U.S. has always elected its presidents by creating a workaround to the Electoral College, the indirect popular election process that’s been used in every American presidential election in history. A collection of states is now a little closer than it was four
President Biden’s administration is planning to soon issue a regulation to cement the sweeping asylum restrictions it enacted at the southern border over the summer, two U.S. officials told CBS News, describing changes that would make it far less likely for the strict rules to be lifted in the near future. In June, Mr. Biden
Louisiana prosecutors on Thursday dismissed the most serious remaining charge in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, dropping a negligent homicide count against a veteran trooper seen on body-camera video dragging the Black motorist by his ankle shackles and forcing him to lie face down before he stopped breathing. The move comes just a
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign scrapped plans for an upcoming outdoor rally in Wisconsin after the Secret Service said it did not have the personnel needed to secure the site, multiple sources told CBS News. The rally was set to take place outdoors at an airport on Saturday, but Trump will instead deliver remarks at
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and his company told an appeals panel Thursday that it should throw out a judge’s ruling that Trump must fork over hundreds of millions in profit obtained through fraud, plus millions more in interest. At least two of the justices from the five-justice panel from the Appellate Division, First