A sign outside the U.S. State Department in Washington on July 11, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images A senior adviser to the U.S. State Department has been arrested and accused of taking thousands of top-secret documents and meeting with Chinese officials, according to court documents filed by the Department of Justice on Oct. 13.
Since last week, approximately 600 employees with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices that were not later rescinded, internal CDC officials not authorized to speak to the media told CBS News on Tuesday. According to the officials, about 1,000 CDC employees initially received reduction-in-force notices, a government term for
More remains of Israeli hostages were handed over by Hamas on Tuesday, as part of a U.S.-brokered deal aimed at keeping peace in Gaza, Israeli authorities said. Four coffins of deceased hostages were transferred to the Red Cross and were on their way to the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency in the Gaza
Former special counsel Jack Smith prepares to speak about an indictment against then-former President Donald Trump in Washington on Aug. 1, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have demanded that former special counsel Jack Smith testify before the panel, after reports indicated that Smith’s investigation obtained phone records of sitting Republican
Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland led a news conference on Tuesday outside the headquarters of the Office of Management and Budget with other lawmakers who represent Maryland and Virginia. The Democrats blasted Republicans and the White House for the shutdown and its impact on federal workers. “When Donald Trump shuts down the federal government,
President Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the government’s highest civilian honor — to conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Tuesday, over a month after he was fatally shot on a Utah college campus. During a ceremony in the White House’s Rose Garden on what would have been
Former U.S. President Barrack Obama speaks at the 2024 DNC held in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 20, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Former President Barack Obama urges Democrats to favor pragmatism over purity tests, saying democratic politics requires “an acceptance of partial victory” and that “better is good.” During a wide-ranging conversation on the final