The Defense Department on Wednesday shot down a U.S. Customs and Border Protection drone in southwest Texas, federal officials confirmed. A U.S. official said a laser weapon was used to down the drone, which occurred in the area of Fort Hancock, a small community located on the U.S.-Mexico border. “This reported engagement occurred when the
The U.S. military’s partnership with artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is teetering on the edge of collapse as the company and a top Pentagon official trade barbs on the eve of a deadline to reach a deal. The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday at 5:01 p.m. to either let the military use the company’s AI
The Federal Reserve has been mounting a closed-door effort to block the Justice Department’s subpoenas for chairman Jerome Powell, CBS News has learned. In January, Powell revealed that the Federal Reserve had received grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into him. The subpoenas threatened a criminal indictment
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A photo released last month by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein files that showed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein’s island in the Caribbean has been removed from the Justice Department’s website. The photo, which has been authenticated by CBS News, shows Epstein, Lutnick, and three
The lead prosecutor in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s human smuggling case acknowledged Thursday that he thought it was possible the charges would be viewed as vindictive, but he decided charging him was “the right thing to do.” Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported to a supermax prison in his home country last year,
Architect Shalom Baranes shows a site plan for the new $400 million White House ballroom during a meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission in Washington on Jan. 8, 2026. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A federal judge on Feb. 26 allowed the ongoing ballroom construction project at the White House to continue, rejecting a preservation organization’s