The Biden administration is trying to manage the fallout from leaked classified intelligence documents that started circulating online in the past week. FBI leads leak investigation as Pentagon narrows access to classified documents Photos of pages of paper documents that appear to have been unfolded have appeared on social media, …
Read More »Rep. Joaquin Castro has surgery to remove cancerous tumors
Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro underwent “successful” surgery to remove gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors, he tweeted Monday. Castro, who is recovering in Texas, said he expects to return to Washington, D.C., in “several weeks.” Castro said doctors discovered the “small, slow-growing, and mostly asymptomatic tumors” last summer after a series of tests. …
Read More »FBI search of Biden’s Rehoboth Beach home yields no documents with classified markings, attorney says
Washington — FBI agents conducted a search of President Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday morning in relation to the probe into documents marked classified in his residence and former private office. Bob Bauer, the president’s personal attorney, said the search lasted under four hours, from 8:30 a.m. …
Read More »Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson working on memoir, “Lovely One”
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is working on a memoir. Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the court, is calling the book “Lovely One.” “Mine has been an unlikely journey,” Jackson said in a statement released Thursday by Random House. “But the path was paved by courageous women …
Read More »Arizona recount confirms Democrat’s victory in attorney general race
A recount of votes has confirmed Democrat Kris Mayes narrowly defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh in the Arizona attorney general’s race, one of the closest elections in state history. The highly anticipated results announced Thursday in Maricopa County Superior Court are among the last in the country to come out of …
Read More »House committee meets to discuss public release of Trump’s tax returns
Washington — The Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to publicly release years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, which he has long tried to shield. Committee Chairman Richard Neal, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has kept a close hold on the panel’s …
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Democrats were going to control the Senate in January regardless of the outcome of Tuesday night’s runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker, since a Democrat occupies the White House. CBS News projects Warnock will keep his seat in the Senate, meaning Democrats will have …
Read More »Top Biden economic adviser Cecilia Rouse leaving after midterm elections
A key member of President Biden’s economic team, Cecilia Rouse, will leave his administration in the spring, a White House official said Friday. Rouse took academic leave from Princeton University to serve as chair of Mr. Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, and she plans to return to the university. The …
Read More »Paul Pelosi attack: Suspect in attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband had list of targets, law enforcement sources say
The suspect in the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi had a list of people he wanted to target, law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation confirmed to CBS News. David Wayne DePape, the man accused of beating Paul Pelosi with a hammer inside his San Francisco …
Read More »Sarah Huckabee Sanders discloses she was successfully treated for thyroid cancer
Republican Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders disclosed that she underwent successful surgery Friday to treat thyroid cancer. “During a check-up earlier this month, my doctor ordered a biopsy on an area of concern in my neck and the test revealed that I had thyroid cancer,” Sanders said in a …
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