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Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Ca.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said Sunday that the House should hold Attorney General Pam Bondi in “inherent contempt” over the Department of Justice (DOJ) releasing an incomplete and heavily redacted tranche of files related to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. Appearing together on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” the lawmakers blasted Bondi...

Special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russia and Ukraine are committed to achieving peace amid negotiations on ending the ongoing war between the two countries.  Witkoff said on the social platform X that he, along with President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and White House senior adviser Josh Gruenbaum, held a “series of productive and...

Paul Coakley, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said Sunday that the Trump administration’s mass deportations are invoking fear in immigrant communities across the country. “It's instilling, as I said, fear in a rather widespread manner. So I think that's something that concerns us all, that people have a right to...

Rapper Nicki Minaj made a surprise appearance on Sunday at Turning Point USA’s annual "AmericaFest" conference, where she talked to the organization’s Erika Kirk about President Trump and mocked California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). Minaj criticized Newsom over his support for transgender health care for minors. She also discouraged the prominent Democrat from running for...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) predicted Sunday that an extension of subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will pass the House with backing from both sides of the aisle. “House Democrats are going to continue to fight to get this extension through the Congress on our side. It will pass with a...

Senate negotiators are set for a high-wire act on health care in the coming weeks after leaving Washington for the holidays without a resolution on the expiring enhanced subsidies, with lawmakers increasingly shifting into campaign mode as the calendar flips to the new year. The chamber has been consumed for months by a fight over...

“Saturday Night Live” this week mocked President Trump’s new “Patriot Games” by likening them to the games in the famous “Hunger Games” book series. In the cold open, Trump, played by SNL’s James Austin Johnson, appears to be mimicking the address the president gave earlier this week. Johnson’s Trump touches on multiple topics as he...

A new CBS News/YouGov poll found that less than 2 in 10 respondents believe President Trump’s policies are improving their current financial situation. The poll, released Sunday, found that 18 percent of respondents believe the president’s policies are making them financially better off now, while 27 percent believe his policies will improve their financial straits...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested on Sunday he would not back Vice President Vance as a hypothetical candidate for president in 2028. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” Paul cited his opposition to the Trump administration’s tariff and trade policy when asked whether he sees Vance as the so-called heir apparent to succeed...

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that President Trump will likely back legislation to send $2,000 tariff rebate checks to Americans in the new year. “I would expect that in the new year, the president will bring forth a proposal to Congress to make that happen,” Hassett told host Margaret Brennan on CBS...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Sunday he thinks it’s a “big mistake” for the Trump administration to release heavily redacted files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying the issue could now “plague them for months.” “I think it's a big mistake,” Paul said in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” when asked...

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that the United States is “going to see the biggest tax refund season of all time” in 2026. “There's so much good news in the new year, because you're going to see the biggest tax refund season of all time. The 'big, beautiful bill' was...

Congress has relinquished its constitutional authority to declare war by refusing to pass resolutions requiring congressional authorization for military operations against Venezuela, allowing the president to initiate military hostilities without debate or oversight.

President Trump is imposing collective punishment on millions of people around the world in response to deadly shootings, despite numerous studies showing that immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than people born in the U.S.