Trump orders Pentagon to restart nuclear weapons testing – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump directed the Pentagon to resume testing of nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with other countries’ tests, possibly ending a decades-long U.S. pause that stretches back to the end of the Cold War. Ed O’Keefe has details. link.lazyload {
People stand around the statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike after it was toppled by vandals in Washington on June 19, 2020. Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON—The statue of a Confederate general in the District of Columbia was restored over the weekend, after being toppled and set on fire during the 2020 George Floyd
Washington — President Trump called his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea Thursday “amazing,” and said the two reached agreements on a number of items, including the resumption of U.S. soybean sales to China and a short-term deal for access to rare earth minerals. No documents formalizing the agreements have been released
Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin speaks after winning the vote at the DNC’s winter meeting in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 1, 2025. Rod Lamkey, Jr./AP Photo With less than a week until Election Day, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is mounting an aggressive final push in New Jersey, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, where party
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) speaks during a hearing with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Democrats were kept out of an Oct. 30 congressional briefing concerning recent lethal U.S. strikes on Latin American drug traffickers, according to Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.). Warner,
The first group of Afrikaners from South Africa to arrive for resettlement listen to remarks from U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar (both out of frame), after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., on May 12, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty
Taylor Taranto, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant who was later convicted of 2023 charges stemming from livestreaming a bomb threat as he drove around former President Barack Obama’s D.C. neighborhood, was sentenced Thursday to time served and three years of supervised release. A day earlier, the Justice Department withdrew its initial sentencing memo in the