Arlington, Virginia — Soldiers of the U.S. Army’s Old Guard are taking on intensive drills as they prepare to resume next month their sacred and solemn duty of using horse-drawn caissons, or carriages, for servicemembers being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. These horse-drawn funerals were suspended by the Army in May 2023 following
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has promised to be helpful in any way possible to facilitate passage of legislation countering the Chinese regime’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting. The question came up at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where Rubio testified on May 21 about the State Department’s 2026 budget proposal. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink is considering a run for Congress in her home state of Michigan, CBS News has learned. Brink, who served for 28 years as a diplomat, is mulling a bid in Michigan’s 7th congressional district, which is currently represented by Republican Tom Barrett. The Lansing-area district is rated by
Trump hosting controversial crypto gala with guests who spent millions on Trump family’s meme coin – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump is hosting a crypto gala at his golf club Thursday night with attendees that spent millions on the Trump family’s new meme digital coin. Nancy Cordes takes a look at the concerns
Prescription drugs cost more in the United States than anywhere else in the world. President Donald Trump and some bipartisan senators want to change that. Trump has so far issued several actions related to prescription drug prices. The latest, announced May 12, is a Most Favored Nation Prescription Drug policy, requiring pharmaceutical companies to offer their
President Trump’s nominee to head the National Counterterrorism Center is under fresh scrutiny as emails show he pressed senior intelligence analysts to amend an assessment of links between the Venezuelan government and the criminal gang, Tren de Aragua, known as TDA, to align the assessment more closely with Trump administration policies and to include references
The Make America Healthy Again Commission report, released on May 22, said that the rise in chronic diseases such as obesity among children can be traced to a number of factors, including diets that increasingly feature ultra-processed foods, with health decisions influenced by distorted scientific literature that is funded or otherwise impacted by corporations. The