CBO says the GOP-led budget reconciliation bill would boost resources for U.S. households—at the cost of widening deficits and uneven impacts. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—the GOP-backed reconciliation package—would lead to a net increase in resources to households nationwide over the next decade, but at the cost
Autel Energy products have the ‘capacity to access and collect significant sensitive consumer data,’ the lawmakers say. Two Republican lawmakers are calling on the Pentagon and the Commerce Department to investigate a Chinese electric vehicle (EV) charging startup, citing national security concerns over the company’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In a letter
ICE officials and a prison contractor have refused to grant a contact visit between Mahmoud Khalil and his family, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, denying him the chance to hold his newborn son. The boy was born last month while Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist, remained in ICE custody
A Georgia teen who was detained by federal deportation officers following local traffic charges that have since been dismissed was granted bond on Wednesday, paving the way for her to be released from immigration detention, her mother and attorney told CBS News. Ximena Arias Cristobal, who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was
President Trump’s missile defense project, called the “Golden Dome for America,” aims to protect the U.S. from foreign threats. But it has been criticized by China as threatening to increase the risks of militarizing space and a global arms race. The president on Tuesday said his administration had “selected an architecture” for the “state-of-the-art system,”
Cuban American leaders have called for the release of political prisoners and the fall of communist rule. A group of Cuban American members of Congress and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio have called for Cuba’s freedom and the release of more than 1,000 political prisoners as part of a commemoration of the archipelago’s Independence
The new U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson—a former CIA official for more than 20 years and former Green Beret in the U.S. Army Special Forces—arrived in Mexico this week for his first meeting with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. Johnson, who was President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to El Salvador from 2019 to 2021, presented