Washington — President Trump visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday morning for what the White House said was his "routine yearly checkup," just six months after undergoing his annual physical examination at the same facility. According to a memo obtained by CBS News Friday eve...
Peru's new President Jose Jeri receives a sash during the swearing-in ceremony, after Congress voted to remove former president Dina Boluarte, in Lima, on Friday. ANGELA PONCEREUTERS LIMA — Peru's Congress leader Jose Jeri was sworn in as the country's president early on Friday, shortly after the...
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu delivers a statement at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, on October 3, 2025.[File PhotoAgency] PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister on Friday and tasked him with forming a new cabinet, Macron's office said in...
A screengrab from an aerial video showing damage from the explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems in Tennessee on Friday. WTVF Eighteen people are dead or missing after a massive blast obliterated a building at a Tennessee explosives facility on Friday, authorities said — a “mass detonation” so s...
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday announced a finalized agreement that will allow the Qatari Emiri Air Force to build a facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. The agreement, which Hegseth announced alongside Qatari Minister of Defense Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman...
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought departs a Senate Republican Conference luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2025. | Francis ChungPOLITICO President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday afternoon announced that it has begun firing federal workers, OMB Director Russ V...
Tariff impacts force growers to stockpile crops, wait for government aid Imported soybeans from Brazil are unloaded at Longkou port of Yantai, Shandong province, on June 17. TANG KEFOR CHINA DAILY Unresolved trade negotiations and the United States' tariffs are having a devastating effect on US ...
A steelworker operates at the Thyssenkrupp steel plant in Duisburg, Germany, on March 20. MARTIN MEISSNERAP The European Commission on Tuesday proposed a plan to protect the European Union's steel industry by tightening controls on imports of steel and related products. Under the proposal, tarif...
A federal judge on Thursday granted a restraining order temporarily blocking the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois, after state and local leaders objected to the deployment. In a ruling from the bench, U.S. District Judge April Perry said no National Guard units...
The federal investigation into the death of convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was marred by significant lapses, experts told CBS News, including the failure by investigators to interview potential witnesses, properly preserve certain evidence and run basic forensic tests. Nearly two years pa...
WASHINGTON AP — After months of gridlock, President Donald Trump finally landed a long-sought Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza — an agreement that only came together after a weekslong diplomacy blitz and a whole lot of help from some Arab and Muslim allies. The breakthrough is design...
Oct 9 Reuters - New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime foe of President Donald Trump, was charged on Thursday with lying on a mortgage application, as the administration steps up its use of government power against his perceived political enemies. A grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, ...
Months after the Palisades Fire devastated parts of Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people, officials announced the arrest of a man they say "maliciously" lit a fire that grew into the monster blaze. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is accused of igniting a fire on Jan. 1 in the Pacific Palisades t...
FILES French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu delivers a statement at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, on October 3, 2025, before a round of consultations with political parties ahead of the announcement of the new government. [PhotoAgencies] In a bid to save his country from further political turmoi...
Lawsuit details scientist's mistreatment and suicide over academic politicization A recent lawsuit detailed the mistreatment of scientist Jane Wu that led to her suicide under the so-called "China Initiative", a program started by the first Donald Trump administration, ended by the succeeding Joe B...