The federal budget deficit is projected to increase 60 percent by 2034. With the federal budget deficit projected to soar over the next decade, members of Congress are pointing fingers as to who’s most responsible for the nation’s financial troubles. “I try to be careful not to blame the president for everything, or my Democrat
Washington — Federal investigators responded to over 400 threats to federal judges across the country in 2023, nearly 300 more than in 2019, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and obtained by CBS News. There were 457 incidents targeting federal judges that were investigated last year, up from just 300 in
After skirting discipline last fall, MIT Coalition Against Apartheid can no longer organize on campus The Massachusetts Institute of Technology suspended an anti-Israel student group that has held unsanctioned demonstrations on campus in the wake of Oct. 7, with university president Sally Kornbluth saying the group disrupted and endangered students. MIT Coalition Against Apartheid “once
The House Rules Committee was scheduled to take up the ‘Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act’ on Feb. 14. The House has pushed off a vote on a bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a spy power that is meant to target noncitizens abroad but has, at times,
One of President Trump’s attorneys reportedly said his client would attend New York ‘hush money’ hearing. It’s a big week for former President Donald Trump’s four criminal cases. On Thursday, two separate cases will hold hearings in which one judge may decide to go to trial as early as next month while another weighs the
One of President Trump’s attorneys reportedly said his client would attend New York ‘hush money’ hearing. It’s a big week for former President Donald Trump’s four criminal cases. On Feb. 15, two separate cases will hold hearings; one judge may decide to go to trial as early as next month, and the other will weigh
The same day prosecutors filed a motion opposing former President Donald Trump’s request for a month’s delay in deadlines in his classified documents case, they served his attorneys 750 pages of material, some of it classified, which defense attorneys said they had been requesting for months. Prosecutors argued that the month delay was part of