The White House is considering ending funding for a longtime civil rights election program aimed at protecting the rights of minority populations to vote, sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News. The federal observer program, authorized under the Voting Rights Act and launched in 1966, is an Office of Personnel Management operation that partners
‘No. 1 priority,’ says teachers’ union leader Senator Chris Van Hollen, AFT president Randi Weingarten, and AFT member Katherine Hayes at a March 12, 2026, press conference. (Screenshot) March 12, 2026 image/svg+xml The Democratic Party is heading into the 2026 midterm elections and 2028 presidential elections pushing legislation that would increase federal income tax rates
Mikie Sherrill in East Brunswick, NJ. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill this week presented her first state budget, a $60.7 billion spending plan that proposes record property-tax relief, a reduction in the structural deficit, and no new taxes on individual residents. “Government hasn’t been working the way it can, the way
An unidentified suspect drove his vehicle into the building and opened fire, authorities confirmed Law enforcement respond to West Bloomfield shooting (Emily Elconin/Getty Images) The suspect in a Tuesday afternoon attack on a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich., is dead after engaging in gunfire with armed security, authorities said. “We can’t say what killed him
The FBI has closed a politically charged voter fraud inquiry sought by Nevada’s top federal prosecutor, after finding only 38 non-citizens may have voted in the 2020 presidential election, sources with direct knowledge of the probe told CBS News. The FBI ended the inquiry in late January, after Sigal Chattah, the first assistant U.S. attorney
The University of California, Berkeley, is allowing its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter to include an inverted red triangle—a symbol Hamas uses to denote Israeli targets—in its logo. The image is displayed on an official university webpage for the group and is permitted to appear at its sanctioned events on campus. UC Berkeley
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) speaks to press on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 3, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said he will not vote for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act in its current form. He sided with his party on final passage while again pushing back on other