Washington — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to move quickly to pass a sprawling bill to reform the struggling U.S. Postal Service, after the legislation won approval by a wide bipartisan margin in the House on Tuesday. “It is my intention for the Senate to quickly take up and …
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As the threat of domestic violent extremism intensifies, federal law enforcement agencies are asking communities to report family members, friends or peers who show signs of extremist behavior. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center have published a resource designed to help the public spot “ideologically …
Read More »New Jersey Republican Jack Ciattarelli has conceded the governor’s race to Democratic incumbent Phil Murphy. He said at a news conference Friday that he called Murphy earlier in the day and congratulated him on his reelection. Ciattarelli trailed Murphy by about 74,000 votes, or 2.9 points, 10 days after Election …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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