Andrus Whitewing

President Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday creating a task force to oversee the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the White House confirmed Monday.

Reuters news service first reported the task force, which it said would work on security, transportation and visa processing. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass — both of whom have a contentious relationship with the president — have not yet responded to news of the task force.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Mr. Trump had been...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will reportedly announce plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, according to media reports.

NASA has had discussions about the building of a reactor on the lunar surface, but Duffy's directive gives a more definitive timeline and expedites the process. Duffy also serves as the interim administrator of the space agency.

"Fission surface power (FSP) is both an essential and sustainable segment of the lunar and Mars power architectures for future human space exploration missions," the directive...

Several House Democrats, including members of the "Squad," criticized the United States over the weekend at a conference in Mexico City that questioned U.S. influence and policies, with one lawmaker saying she was prouder to be Guatemalan than American.

The second annual Panamerican Congress brought leftist officials from all over North and South America. Those in attendance included Democratic lawmakers: Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Presley of Massachusetts, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Jesús Gilberto García...

Republicans in Texas are escalating the partisan debate over congressional districts by attempting to redraw their map in time for the midterm elections next year. Kyle Kondick, political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics and co-author of the book "Campaign of Chaos," joins the "CBS Evening News" to discuss the battle in Texas.

The Department of Homeland Security is hoping to use Florida's so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" as a model for similar facilities, with sites in Arizona, Nebraska, and Louisiana already being looked at as options. Nicole Sganga reports.

Liana Avetisian and most of her family fled Ukraine in 2023 and have built a new life in the U.S., resettling in DeWitt, Iowa, which calls itself the Crossroads to Opportunity.

The town has been just that for more than 75 Ukrainians, welcomed by people like Angela Boelens, who has helped many of the refugees with housing and jobs, at first on her own and then through an organization she helped found called Iowa Nice.

"I get a phone call every week from employers saying, 'Do you have anybody from Ukraine who needs a job?' Because we have a workforce...

Approximately 200,000 Ukrainians who fled their homes for the U.S. amid the war with Russia are waiting to learn their fate because their work permits are not being renewed. Janet Shamlian has tonight's "Eye on America."

President Trump on Monday continued to slam Erika McEntarfer, the former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics who he fired, claiming she had "rigged" a poor job numbers report. No evidence has been provided to support that claim. Nancy Cordes reports.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the arrest of Democratic state lawmakers who fled the state in order to block a vote on a congressional map that favors Republicans. Ed O'Keefe reports.

A viral video showing several people being brutally beaten in downtown Cincinnati has Vivek Ramaswamy decrying a pervasive "anti-law enforcement culture" in American society.

The former 2024 presidential hopeful and Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate spoke with Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview on Monday evening ahead of a Cincinnati town hall event addressing combating violence, saying that he believes the Cincinnati beating "catalyzed a conversation in our state and frankly across the country about this issue of violent crime in the...

Haley Robson says recent speculation Ghislaine Maxwell could be pardoned has left her "extremely angry".

He was arrested during a traffic stop on suspicion of possession of a firearm while being a felon.

Three Democratic state lawmakers who fled Texas to block an effort to redraw the state's congressional maps to favor Republicans told CBS News on Monday they're prepared to stay out of the state for at least the next two weeks — as GOP leaders threaten consequences.

Dozens of Texas House Democrats headed to Illinois and other blue states over the weekend, denying the chamber's GOP leaders a quorum on Monday. The move has at least temporarily derailed a special legislative session called by Gov. Greg Abbott to reshape the state's U.S. House district...

U.S. border agents have been directed to stop deporting migrants under President Trump's ban on asylum claims, following a federal court order that said the measure could not be used to completely suspend humanitarian protections for asylum-seekers, two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News.

The move effectively lifts a sweeping policy that had closed the American asylum system to those entering the U.S. illegally or without proper documents. It's a measure the second Trump administration has credited for a steep drop in illegal...

The Texas Legislature attempted to meet Monday to consider a redistricting plan that would favor Republicans, but Democratic members who left the state over the weekend did not return, denying the quorum needed to convene the session. Gov. Greg Abbott insisted he will take steps to remove those lawmakers from their seats, and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows said he had signed civil arrest warrants for the absent Democrats.

Republicans "can make idle threats, but as long as they are out of state, there's really nothing that they can do," said...