The frontrunner to oversee a new national counter-fraud push at the Justice Department in the wake of revelations of massive public benefits fraud in Minnesota is a top official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, sources familiar with the decision told CBS News. Colin McDonald is being considered for the newly created position of
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with US oil companies executives in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Jan. 9, 2026. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump has asked Congress to ratify provisions of his health care affordability plan, which aims to lower prices through marketplace reforms
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with U.S. oil companies’ executives in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 9, 2026. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump on Jan. 15 released his administration’s new health care affordability plan, which aims to lower prices through marketplace reforms that include price negotiation,
Washington — A bipartisan bill seeks to make it a crime to publicly share identifying information about special operations forces with the intent of threatening, intimidating or inciting violence against them. Republican Sen. Ted Budd of North Carolina and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are introducing the bill, first shared with CBS News,
Washington — President Trump on Thursday announced the “The Great Healthcare Plan,” his long-awaited health care proposal, and asked Congress to act. The outline released by the White House, however, is sparse on details. especially considering the president said as far back as his first term in office that he would be releasing a health
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) speaks at a forum at the US Capitol in Washington, on July 17, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) on Jan. 14 introduced the Divesting from Communist China’s Military Act, which would sanction and prohibit investment in Chinese military companies on the Pentagon’s blacklist. The Pentagon and Treasury Department
Washington — President Trump is hosting Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for lunch Thursday, after Machado earlier this month offered to share her Nobel Prize with him for what she said was his “historic” action in Venezuela, the removal of Nicolás Maduro from power. “I certainly would love to be able to personally tell