President Donald Trump signs a National Purple Heart Day Proclamation during an event to honor recipients of the Purple Heart in the East Room of the White House on Aug. 7, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Donald Trump honored Purple Heart recipients at the White House on Aug. 7. Trump hosted the afternoon event at
Washington — President Trump plans to announce a pact for peace between two former Soviet republics, Azerbaijan and Armenia, at the White House on Friday, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, and Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, will attend the events in the Oval Office and State Dining Room,
Unarmed soldiers rushed a fellow service member who allegedly opened fire at Fort Stewart in Georgia, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said Thursday. Five soldiers were wounded in the shooting, and the suspect, a sergeant at the Army base, is in custody. “They were unarmed and ran at and tackled an armed person who they knew was
President Trump on Thursday said he had instructed the Department of Commerce to “immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate” census that would exclude undocumented immigrants. But the census is a massive undertaking and has huge repercussions nationally, including on congressional seat alignment — so it’s not something that can be changed quickly.
A person protests outside of the Supreme Court in Washington on June 29, 2023. Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo Colleges and universities that receive federal funding will be required to share information and data about their admissions practices with the public under President Donald Trump’s new directive to the Department of Education. The order, titled, Ensuring
Brian Driscoll, who briefly served as acting director of the FBI in the early days of the second Trump administration, is being pushed out of the agency, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Driscoll must vacate his current role at the agency’s Washington field office by Friday, the sources said. The same
Latest details on Texas redistricting battle Trump threatens to involve FBI in Texas redistricting battle 03:26 FBI Director Kash Patel has agreed to aid the search for the Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the state to protest new congressional maps, Sen. John Cornyn said Thursday. Texas Republicans have been trying to bring the Democrats back