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Scheme to avoid tax on offshore billions may have been botched because money was managed from the UK, BBC learns.

The symbolic clock is set at 89 seconds to midnight, with nuclear threats, AI misuses and climate change being the key factors.

Retired Gen. Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Trump and Biden administrations, has had both his security detail and his security clearance revoked, the Pentagon says.

New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "informed General Milley today that he is revoking the authorization for his security detail and suspending his security clearance as well," Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot told CBS News in a statement Tuesday night.

Ullyot said Hegseth "also directed" the Defense Department's Office of Inspector General to...

The surge happened when people who were sleeping on the riverbank were trampled by other pilgrims.

The investigation comes after Italian authorities freed a Libyan national wanted by the ICC.

The Trump administration offered an ultimatum to some federal employees asking them to choose if they want to resign in a pitch that echoes Elon Musk's moves at Twitter.

Tesla's fourth-quarter earnings report lands just over a week after President Donald Trump began his second term in the White House, with Elon Musk right by his side.

Now that the Tesla CEO is firmly planted in Washington, D.C., in a high-profile advisory role, shareholders in the electric vehicle maker have some questions.

On the forum Tesla uses to solicit investor inquiries in advance of its earnings calls, more than 100 poured in from shareholders about Musk's politics, including his official role at Trump's Department of Government Efficiency...

Florida lawmakers have passed a sweeping immigration bill, setting aside half a billion dollars in public funds to help carry out President Donald Trump’s crackdown on people in the country illegally

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at cutting federal support for certain types of gender-affirming care for people under age 19, his latest move to roll back protections for transgender people across the country.

"It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures," the order says.

The order covers...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said federal immigration authorities were arresting the "worst of the worst" in raids targeting criminal illegal immigrants in the first week of the Trump administration.

Noem, who was confirmed Saturday, joined an immigration enforcement raid in New York City Tuesday morning in which officers picked up an alleged ringleader of the violent Tren de Aragua gang.

"We are picking up the worst of the worst in this country that are making our streets so dangerous," Noem told Sean Hannity on "Hannity." "The...

A California man is leading the charge to have the state split from the United States.

The office of California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said Marcus Evans can begin collecting signatures to put the questions to voters.

"Should California leave the United States and become a free and independent country?" the question reads.

LA FIRES: 'MILLION DOLLAR LISTING' STARS RAISE ALARM ABOUT ILLEGAL PRICE GOUGING

To qualify for the November 2028 ballot, Evans must collect the signatures of at least 546,651 registered voters by July 22. If...

Six transgender members of the military are suing the Trump administration over an executive order pertaining to trans troops.

The lawsuit was filed by six current military servicemembers and two people who want to enlist. On Monday, President Trump signed an order stating the "adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life."

"A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this...

Caroline Kennedy, the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and a former U.S. ambassador, sent a letter to lawmakers urging them not to confirm her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who she referred to as a "predator" and said was "unqualified" both professionally and personally to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

RFK Jr. is set to sit before two Senate committees on Wednesday and Thursday this week, during which lawmakers will get a chance to probe him about various issues related to his nomination as Health and...

The order is in response to a lawsuit that says the freezing of billions of dollars in already approved funding violates the law.

Dozens of senior staff inside the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, have been placed on administrative leave until further notice, and hundreds of contractors have had their employment furloughed or terminated, multiple sources told CBS News. This followed Secretary of State Marco Rubio's order last Friday that placed an immediate halt on virtually all U.S.-funded foreign aid assistance globally.

CBS News spoke to a dozen current and former USAID staff and contractors who were granted anonymity to speak openly.

An email obtained by...