Sean Plankey, the Department of Homeland Security senior adviser and Trump nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was escorted out of the U.S. Coast Guard headquarters late Monday and had his access badge removed, according to sources familiar with the matter. The nominee to lead the cyber defense agency has left his
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the state’s Attorney General Keith Ellison faced questions from the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, in a hearing that focused on the state’s massive fraud scandal and the Trump administration’s recent immigration surge. The questions largely fell along party lines. Republicans asked about the fraud scandal, while Democrats focused on
José Garza faced intense criticism for the policy after Austin’s police union said it had retained legal counsel for the three officers José Garza (CBS Austin/Wikimedia Commons), Austin police car (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Three Austin police officers saved countless lives on Sunday when they shot and killed Ndiaga Diagne, the suspected gunman who had a
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sent a letter Wednesday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling for more action from the State Department to help Americans evacuate the Middle East. In the letter sent to Rubio and Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Nora Namdar, and first obtained by CBS News, Pritzker said that
The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support holds a hearing at 2:30 p.m. ET on March 4 to examine the current readiness of the Joint Force. Witnesses: Gen. Christopher C. LaNeve, vice chief of staff of the Army, U.S. Army Adm. James… Original News Source Link – Epoch Times
Smoke from interceptions of projectiles from Iran over Abu Dhabi on Feb. 28, 2026. Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images Turkish officials said on March 4 that NATO’s defense system destroyed an Iranian missile that was headed into Turkey’s airspace. The missile was detected over Iraqi and Syrian airspace before NATO’s air defense systems destroyed it,
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says the United States is ‘winning decisively’ against Iran. He confirms that the United States sank an Iranian warship—in the first torpedo sinking since World War II. NTD has more on a pentagon briefing from Wednesday morning. White House … Original News Source Link – Epoch Times