Andrus Whitewing

The U.S. State Department has issued a directive to all of its embassies and consular posts to, "at their discretion," relay or reiterate to their host governments that the United States "is not involved in Israel's unilateral action against targets in Iran and did not provide tanker support," according to a source familiar with its contents.

In a communication known as an ALDAC cable — referring to All Diplomatic and Consular Posts — that the source described to CBS News, the department also noted that the United States "remains committed to a...

Vance Boelter, the man who authorities believe shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in politically motivated shootings early Saturday morning, is now in custody.

Multiple sources told WCCO on Sunday evening that Boelter, 57, was taken into custody near his home in Green Isle, Sibley County.

Shortly before 10 p.m., the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office posted a picture on social media appearing to show Boelter being taken into custody.

"The face of evil," the sheriff's office wrote. "After relentless and determined police work, the killer...

Yvette Hoffman says she was shot eight times and her husband nine. The gunman is still at large.

The president's impact on investment in the US is far more incremental than he has claimed.

Surveillance camera footage from the lobby of a building down the street from the U.S. Capitol provided a break in the three-year search for the person who was extorting a young man from Buffalo, New York.

Cross Cole, a 21-year-old citizen of Ghana, who is linked to a 2022 stay at a rental property in Washington, D.C., was charged last week with the sextortion scheme.

Cole's arrest is part of a growing wave of such cases nationwide and illustrates the complicated and international nature of these attacks.

Sextortion, in which schemers...

Minnesota Sen. John Hoffman's wife shared an update after a shooting injured the couple at their home early Saturday morning.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Sunday afternoon shared on social media a text message she says she received from Yvette Hoffman.

"Our family is so humbled by the love and outpouring from everyone," Yvette Hoffman said in the message.

The Hoffmans' nephew says she jumped on her and John Hoffman's adult daughter, Hope Hoffman, to shield her from the shots. Hope Hoffman was unharmed.

Yvette Hoffman says her husband was shot nine...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said Israel and Iran sometimes ‘have to fight it out’ while expressing optimism that a deal can be struck as both countries continue to trade airstrikes amid fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East.

Trump was getting ready to board Air Force One to depart for Canada to attend the G7 Summit in Alberta when he was asked about his effort to help de-escalate the tensions between Israel and Iran.

TRUMP SAYS ISRAEL’S NEXT IRAN ATTACK WILL BE EVEN MORE BRUTAL: ‘MAKE A DEAL’

"Well, I hope there's going to be a...

The presidential pardon has been used throughout history, but never quite like it has this year. Scott MacFarlane reports.

As fears grow that America's military could be drawn into another conflict in the Middle East, President Trump says the U.S. had nothing to do with Israel's attack on Iran. Willie James Inman has more.

Federal authorities are conducting more immigration raids in Southern California after more than a week of protests. Elise Preston reports.

SWAT teams rushed to a remote highway in rural Minnesota Sunday where police say they found a car and cowboy hat belonging to the suspect in the targeted shootings of two state lawmakers. Jennifer Mayerle of CBS Minnesota reports.

Some of those in Iran who have spoken to the BBC use one word to describe life in there right now.

Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California warned Sunday that if he, as a U.S. senator, could be forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference, "don't just imagine what they're capable of, but what they are doing when the cameras are not there" to others.

"If that's how this administration responds to the senator with a question, don't just imagine what they're capable of, but what they are doing when the cameras are not there, to people without a title like United States senator, that cruel, disrespectful treatment of so...

Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California on Sunday claimed that he was just trying to ask a question when he was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles last week.

Padilla recalled his side of the story during an appearance on CNN’s "State of the Union," saying that he was already in the building for a separate briefing when he decided to attend Noem’s press conference about the recent immigration protests and riots in Los Angeles.

But what happened next, he said, "you can't script this in...

President Trump opposed a recent Israeli plan to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three U.S. officials told CBS News on Sunday.

The Israelis had the opportunity to assassinate Khamenei and Mr. Trump conveyed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it wasn't a good idea, one U.S. official told CBS News. They said the conversation between Netanyahu and Mr. Trump happened since Israel launched a massive attack on Iran last week.

Mr. Trump's rejection of the proposal was first reported by Reuters.

A senior U.S. official told CBS...