Lawmakers are split on Trump's Iran peace deal, with some praising nuclear progress while others warn it could give Tehran billions with no enforcement.
Three Democratic senators are pressing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to halt a merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, warning that the deal could pose a national security risk due to the involvement of foreign investors. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) urged FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a joint letter on...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said Democrats have a chance at locking down a Senate seat in Texas after state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) recent victory in a runoff. “Paxton will now face off against State [Rep.] James Talarico. Democrats have not won a Texas Senate seat, as you know, in more than 30...
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Joe Gruters on Sunday said the party would hold a midterm convention “before the general election” as outlined by President Trump last September. “There's a very short window of doing it after the last primary ballots have been cast and before the general election. But yes, we're very much moving...
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Sunday predicted that oil shipments will pass through the Strait of Hormuz in "a month or two," while it has been closed off amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran. Hassett told ABC's Jonathan Karl on "This Week" that there is "a lot more traffic" passing through the strait...
The Republican Party, led by President Trump, has embraced white Christian nationalists and is working to reduce the number of Black House members through redistricting, while also attacking African Americans with racist rhetoric and policies.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said he hopes White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will come to Kyiv, Ukraine, for talks in the coming weeks. CBS News's "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan asked the president whether he had heard from the envoys and Secretary of State Marco...
Washington's shift to a hyper-transactional foreign policy framework has weakened its strategic architecture, making Taiwan a flexible variable in the U.S.-China rivalry and threatening to unravel decades of American deterrence in Asia.
Former first lady Jill Biden said in her first interview since leaving the White House that former President Biden "was slowing down" before he dropped his 2024 presidential bid. Jill Biden told "CBS News Sunday" correspondent Rita Braver in an interview released Sunday that she never saw signs that her husband was cognitive or mental...
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday slammed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent “anti-weaponization” fund and pushed to “get rid of" it. “Well, look, I think that the weaponization fund is a — it's a bad idea from the start. And I would encourage the administration just to drop it,” Pence told NBC News’s...
For more than a year, leaders from the country’s largest technology firms have worked to win President Trump’s favor as he returned to the White House. From meetings at Mar-a-Lago to hefty inauguration donations, their efforts were on full display from the first day of Trump's, with CEOs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg sitting...
Former Vice President Pence said Sunday that his party has “lost our way,” but also went after Democrats by saying they “have lost their minds.” During an interview on “Meet the Press,” NBC News’s Kristen Welker pressed Pence on who he would support in the upcoming U.S. Senate race in Texas, as the controversial Republican...
President Trump on Saturday called for the cancellation of the concert celebrating America's 250th birthday after multiple artists withdrew from performing at the upcoming Great American State Fair on the National Mall. Trump wrote on Truth Social that there should be "a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody...
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) on Sunday called the past week of clashes between law enforcement officers and demonstrators protesting conditions inside a federal immigration detention center "one of the most difficult" of his life. Kim met with protesters outside Delaney Hall in Newark, N.J., last weekend after they gathered in solidarity with detained migrants on...
