Politics

The U.S. added more than half a million jobs in October, but the share of people working still lags several percentage points behind pre-pandemic figures. In an interview Friday with CBS News, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh pointed to some 3.8 million people who reported last month they had not been …

More than four years after white supremacists wreaked havoc in Charlottesville, Virginia, victims of the violence are suing the neo-Nazis and white nationalists who organized the protests, claiming in civil court that the organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally planned the violent attacks against counter-protesters, resulting in the death …

A federal grand jury on Tuesday charged Congressman Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska with scheming to falsify and conceal information from federal investigators who were looking into his 2016 campaign. The indictment alleges that Fortenberry, a Republican who was first elected in 2004, repeatedly lied to and misled authorities during a …

Washington — Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, the head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said in an interview with CBSN’s Tanya Rivero on Thursday that she and her progressive colleagues do not have a “red line” on the price tag for President Biden’s proposal to expand the nation’s social safety net, as Democratic …

Justice Samuel Alito pushed back Thursday against criticism, including some from colleagues, that recent Supreme Court actions in major cases have been done hastily and in the shadows. “A dangerous cabal” improperly deciding important matters? Hardly, he said. Alito, in remarks at the University of Notre Dame, took aim at …

Austin — Texas election officials said Thursday night they were auditing the 2020 results in four large counties, hours after former President Trump, continuing to falsely claim the election was stolen, pressed Republican Governor Greg Abbott for a ballot review. Mr. Trump won Texas last year by 5.5 percentage points, …

Washington — President Biden traveled to New York and New Jersey on Tuesday to survey damage from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which produced deadly flash flooding in the Northeast as the storm tore through the region last week. The president pointed to the extreme weather as he pushed the …

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has fired a longtime flutist after months of issues with her controversial social media posts. “Principal Flutist Emily Skala has been dismissed from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in accordance with the progressive discipline policy agreed to in our collective bargaining agreement with the Musicians’ Association of …

Three top Senate Democrats have a draft plan to end the federal ban on cannabis and implement a series of programs to help communities that have been harmed by the war on drugs, which have disproportionately tended to be communities of color.   Senators Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, Ron …

Jodie Foster and Michael Bloomberg are releasing a new ad today that uses female celebrities to urge women to vote in next week’s midterm elections. The ad, produced by Bloomberg and RadicalMedia and directed by Foster, is part of a digital effort to support Democrats for the House of Representatives, …