Washington — A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered an end to criminal contempt proceedings launched by a lower court judge who said the government defied his order to turn around deportation flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year. A divided panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
House Republicans are threatening to hold the CEO of Democratic fundraising company ActBlue in contempt of Congress as part of an investigation into its allegedly “unserious approach to fraud prevention,” CBS News has learned. “There is considerable reason to believe that ActBlue may have deliberately withheld” some documents “to impede our investigation,” the heads of
A home for sale in Austin, Texas, on April 24, 2025. Brandon Bell/Getty Images The United States has a shortage of 10 million homes, a gap that the White House’s newly released 2026 Economic Report of the President attributes in part to government regulations that have increased construction costs. The estimated shortage was calculated by
District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington on March 16, 2023. Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP An appeals court has put a stop to criminal contempt proceedings initiated by a district judge against
Results of Central European parliamentary elections rarely make much news in the United States, but Viktor Orbán’s defeat certainly did. The Hungarian prime minister conceded Sunday after ruling for 16 years, and many wonder if the result predicts the downfall of Donald Trump’s populism the same way that the 2016 Brexit vote foretold his shocking
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is asking the Justice Department to reimburse him for legal fees he incurred in multiple federal and state investigations into President Trump, according to sources with direct knowledge of the request. The request comes at the same time the Justice Department is also fielding a variety of
Semi-automatic and fully automatic firearms, including some that were modified using 3D printed parts, at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) National Services Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on Sept. 4, 2024. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger wants the Commonwealth’s General Assembly to shore up what she sees