Washington — The three House committees that led the first phase of the impeachment inquiry released transcripts of closed-door testimony from two more witnesses on Wednesday. Philip Reeker, an assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian…
Washington — The House Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing in the impeachment inquiry next week, as Democrats move quickly into the next phase of the proceedings. Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler sent a letter to President Trump on…
President Trump signed a bipartisan bill into law Monday, making animal cruelty a federal crime. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, or PACT Act, bans abusive behavior including crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling and other bodily injury toward any non-human…
A federal judge has ruled that former White House counsel Don McGahn must appear before Congress. U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Monday that McGahn must comply with a subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. Soon after…
Women's suffrage's "Great Fight" President Trump, who is facing the possibility of impeachment, is expected to sign a bill on Monday that celebrates women. The divided Congress has been unable to agree on much throughout Mr. Trump's presidency, especially since…
President Trump is set to sign a bipartisan bill into law Monday, making animal cruelty a federal crime, the Humane Rescue Alliance confirmed to CBS News. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, or PACT Act, bans abusive behavior including crushing,…
Trump honors military dog at White House Washington — The Trumps may not want a dog at the White House, but they honored one there Monday — Conan, the "ultimate dog" that helped the U.S. military bring down ISIS leader…
Morris Meat Packing is recalling more than half a million pounds of pork products because they were never inspected by the government, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service. The problem was discovered after the…
Washington Redskins quarterback Dwayne Haskins missed the final play of his first NFL win for an unusual reason on Sunday: The rookie was taking selfies with fans. Haskins, who was selected No. 15 overall in the 2019 NFL Draft, began…
President Trump's Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said he was fired in the controversy over a Navy SEAL because the president gave him an order he couldn't, "in good conscience," carry out. Secretary Spencer's removal follows a dispute that began when…
Rochester, New York, resident Willie Murphy is not your average 82-year-old. When a man decided to break into her home Thursday night, the award-winning bodybuilder used her strength to repel the intruder with the help of a table, baby shampoo…
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer has resigned after a request by Defense Secretary Mark Esper over a private proposal to the White House to restore the rank of SEAL Edward Gallagher, the Pentagon confirmed to CBS News on Sunday. Esper said in…
An Alabama sheriff was shot and killed Saturday, authorities told CBS affiliate WKRG-TV. Lowndes County Sheriff "Big John" Williams was responding to a call at a convenience store and gas station when he was fatally shot. Details on the shooting…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital Sunday, two days after being hospitalized for experiencing chills and fever. The 86-year-old justice received treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. "Justice Ginsburg has been discharged from…
Bloomberg apologizes for stop-and-frisk Washington — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is running for president, launching a multimillion dollar ad campaign Sunday to launch his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. A minute-long advertisement began airing Sunday in certain markets across…
Patrick Frazee sits in a grim Cripple Creek, Colorado, jail – put there by his former girlfriend Krystal Lee – for the murder of his fiancée Kelsey Berreth. "There was blood on the wall here, there was blood on the…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized on Friday after experiencing "chills and fever" earlier in the day. The 86-year-old justice received treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Ginsburg was initially brought to Sibley Memorial Hospital in…
New details are also emerging about a deadly shooting earlier this week at a high school in California. The weapon used in the attack was a so-called "ghost gun," an untraceable, but legal weapon. Sixteen-year-old Nathaniel Berhow was too young…
Hill: "Burisma was code for the Bidens" Documents released late Friday show President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was in contact with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the months before the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was abruptly recalled. The…
Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced trip to Iraq on Saturday, his first visit to the country as vice president. Pence traveled to Iraq previously when he was a congressman. Pence landed at the Al-Asad Air Base, which is…
A U.S. federal judge has awarded a Washington Post journalist and his family nearly $180 million in their lawsuit against Iran over his 544 days in captivity and torture while being held on internationally criticized espionage charges. The order in…
Amazon Web Services has filed a lawsuit contesting the Pentagon's decision to award a cloud computing contract to rival Microsoft in late October. A spokesperson for the company told CBS News that the evaluation process for awarding the $10 billion…
Anchorage, Alaska — The Trump administration will consider a new management plan and expanded oil drilling for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, an Indiana-size area that former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar characterized as an "iconic place on our Earth." The Bureau of…
A New Jersey company is recalling more than 75,000 pounds of salad products due to a potential E. coli contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a Thursday statement. The recall impacts 22 states…