Long security lines at Houston, New Orleans airports amid lapse in DHS funding

Airline passengers faced long security lines that took hours to get through in New Orleans and Houston on Sunday, as the Transportation Security Administration deals with continued absences amid the ongoing partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security. TSA agents have been working without pay since the start of the partial shutdown, which

America in Photos: Tornado in Michigan, US Troops Dignified Transfer, and Remembering Alamo

The tower of the Eastside Cannery Casino and Hotel is demolished by implosion in Las Vegas early on March 5, 2026. The property, which opened in 2008, closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and never reopened. Owner Boyd Gaming Corp. plans to sell the land for residential development. Ethan Miller/Getty Images Original

NTSB member who responded to D.C. midair crash says the White House fired him

National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman, who was the NTSB’s initial on scene spokesman at the deadly midair collision over Washington, D.C., last January, has abruptly departed the agency two years into what is typically a five-year term. Days after the NTSB added its fifth board member, Inman was fired by the White House Presidential Personnel

Federal Judge Voids Actions Kari Lake Took as Voice of America CEO

Kari Lake, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead Voice of America, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 21, 2025. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images A federal judge ruled March 7 that Kari Lake’s leadership at the U.S. Agency for Global Media

Full transcript of “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” March 8, 2026

On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan:  Energy Secretary Chris Wright Michael Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Robert Costa,  CBS national correspondent and chief Washington analyst  Sen. Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia Olga Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S Click here to browse full transcripts from 2026 of

Energy secretary says “period of elevated energy prices” will be temporary

Washington — Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that elevated energy prices amid the escalating war with Iran will be “temporary,” stressing he believes gas prices “shouldn’t go much higher.” “We have a temporary period of elevated energy prices, but it will not be long,” Wright said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.” Concerns