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Border Patrol agents have new orders to stop deporting migrants under President Trump's asylum ban, which he signed earlier this year. The directive comes after a federal court limited the president's order last week. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more.

Elon Musk boasted about how much he'd saved taxpayers when he was running the Department of Government Efficiency. CBS News took a close look at some of the numbers and found the money saved doesn't line up with what DOGE is saying. Nancy Cordes reports.

Former White House physician Kevin O'Connor previously dismissed cognitive tests as "meaningless," ex-Biden administration aide Bruce Reed told House investigators on Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the proceedings.

Reed, who served as White House deputy chief of staff for policy, is the ninth member of former President Joe Biden's inner circle to sit down with House Oversight Committee lawyers.

A source familiar with his interview told Fox News Digital that Reed attributed Biden's disastrous 2024 debate performance against...

Rwanda has agreed to take in illegal immigrants deported from the United States amid the Trump administration's plans to send deportees to third countries.

Under the agreement, the country will take up to 250 deportees from the U.S., with "the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement," Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press.

DHS ANNOUNCES 'THIRD COUNTRY DEPORTATION FLIGHT' LANDED IN SOUTHERN AFRICA'S ESWATINI

Fox News Digital has reached out to the State Department.

Rwanda would be the third...

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan on Tuesday met for a third time with President Trump since he took office, relying on her cordial relationship with him to express concern over the impact of tariffs on her state and to ask for a delay in changes to the Medicaid program.

During the meeting, Whitmer asked Mr. Trump for a three-year transition period for changes to the state's Medicaid program in order to develop a "new, federally compliant structure" that limits the disruption in care for seniors, people with disabilities and new moms...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to remove one of the state's House Democratic leaders, Rep, Gene Wu, calling him "the ringleader" of the dozens of Democratic lawmakers who left the state in an effort to block a redistricting vote.

Abbott filed the emergency petition with the Texas Supreme Court to have Wu, who represents Houston and serves as Democratic caucus chair, removed from office. On Sunday, he governor had threatened to seek Democratic lawmakers' removal from office if they did not attend a Monday afternoon House session...

The Justice Department will move to indict the man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staffers in May on federal hate crime charges this week, a source familiar with the matter said.

The indictment against 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez is expected to include special findings for capital punishment, which would allow the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty in the case. A grand jury has been convened to hear the Justice Department's evidence, the source said.

A Department of Justice spokesperson and attorneys for Rodriguez did not...

EXCLUSIVE: Indiana will be getting their own version of Alligator Alcatraz in Florida with 1,000 beds.

The "Speedway Slammer" will be located at the Miami Correctional Center in Miami County, which is in between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. The name is a nod to Indiana's racing culture, such as the annual Indianapolis 500.

"We are proud to work with President Trump and Secretary Noem as they remove the worst of the worst with this innovative partnership," Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said in a statement on Tuesday. "Indiana is taking a comprehensive...

President Donald Trump saidTuesday evening that the FBI "may have to" round up a group of Democratic lawmakers who fled Texas to avoid voting on the state’s proposed redistricting map.

This comes as Texas Governor Greg Abbott and several Texas leaders, including Attorney General Ken Paxton, have demanded that the 50 Democratic members of the state legislature who fled the state return or face consequences.

The Democrats fled the state in an effort to deny Republicans the necessary two-thirds quorum required to vote on the redistricting map, which...

A total of 22 mRNA vaccine development contracts totaling roughly $500 million have been canceled, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday.

The mRNA investments were part of the government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of HHS that drives some of the country's most advanced scientific research, such as the development of vaccines, drugs and other tools to fight national health threats. The termination of the 22 BARDA contracts follows a several-weeks-long internal review to...

Hiroshima students have spent weeks visualising the stories of survivors from the atomic bomb and turning them into art.

President Trump said Tuesday he sees Vice President JD Vance as an early favorite to serve as his successor.

A reporter asked Mr. Trump whether he sees Vance as the "heir apparent to MAGA." The president responded that Vance is "most likely" the leading contender.

"It's too early, obviously, to talk about it. But certainly he's doing a great job, and he would be probably favored at this point," the president said during an unrelated executive order-signing ceremony.

Mr. Trump also mentioned Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and suggested he's...

President Trump fired five of the eight members of Puerto Rico's Financial Oversight Management Board, which oversees the U.S. territory's budget plan. The island has been trying to find its way to fiscal solvency after struggling with its debt for years.

Mr. Trump dismissed the board's chairman Arthur J. Gonzalez, Cameron McKenzie, Betty A. Rosa, Juan A. Sabater, and Luis A. Ubiñas, leaving only two board members in place, in addition to one appointed by the Puerto Rican governor, CBS News confirmed, according to a White House official. This was...

A group of six criminal illegal aliens have been arrested by ICE in Houston after having collectively illegally entered the country a staggering 42 times.

The six criminal aliens were finally arrested by ICE in the final days of July after two decades' worth of illegal reentries and after racking up an equally astounding 48 criminal convictions, according to a statement released on Tuesday.

Criminal convictions among the group include cocaine trafficking, grand theft auto, assault, domestic violence and multiple DWIs. One of the illegals is a...

The redistricting battle across the country is bringing renewed attention to how the census counts people who are non-citizens, and if people here illegally are inflating the statistics that ultimately decide congressional seats and the Electoral College.

Texas is looking at redistricting, as blue states like California are eyeing the possibility of also redistricting to counter any potential Republican seat additions.

Still, there’s been a debate about whether to include a question asking to verify somebody’s citizenship on the census, and only...