California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night gathering at the California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., on Nov. 4, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Gov. Gavin Newsom is road-testing a national political message through deep-red territory this week as the California Democratic Party struggles to unite behind a single candidate to succeed him
President Trump’s move to invoke an obscure legal tool to impose a global 15% tariff on U.S. imports could face its own legal challenges, trade experts told CBS News. The White House said in a fact sheet on Friday that the temporary import duty, imposed under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, addresses a “fundamental
Like Joe Biden without the dementia (or lying about being smart) ChatGPT Gavin Newsom, the California governor who is definitely running for president in 2028, has been denounced as racist after suggesting his lack of intelligence made it easier to relate to black people. “I’m like you,” Newsom told Atlanta’s black mayor, Andre Dickens, while
Washington — When President Trump gives his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, more than a dozen Democratic congresswomen plan to again make a sartorial political statement by wearing white, according to the Democratic Women’s Caucus. Democratic congresswomen have used fashion as a form of protest against Mr. Trump since his first address to
The U.S. military said Monday that it carried out a strike on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing three men. The boat was “transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” the U.S. Southern Command said in a statement on X. “Three male narco-terrorists
The top of a form for the 1040 individual income tax return for 2005, at the Des Plaines public library in Des Plaines, Ill., on March 23, 2006. Tim Boyle/Getty Images The average tax refund for American taxpayers has increased on a year-over-year basis, the IRS said in a Feb. 20 update. The average refund
Former U.K. ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson has been arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Mandelson was being investigated after a series of emails between him and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released late last month. “Officers have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of