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Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months were freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met Friday with a Trump administration official tasked with urging the authoritarian leader to take back deported migrants who have committed crimes in the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, announced the release of the six men on social media. The visit by Grenell came as a shock to many Venezuelans who hoped that Trump would continue the “maximum pressure”...

The small plane was carrying six people and crashed into homes in a busy neighbourhood.

Yarden Bibas and two others will be exchanged for more Palestinian prisoners in the fourth swap since the ceasefire began.

Kaja Kallas says Europe needs to increase investment to keep pace with threats facing the continent.

Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a working group that included the Federal Aviation Administration and the controllers' union, according to a CBS News analysis of FAA data.

The issue has received renewed scrutiny following Wednesday night's midair collision between an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.

Only one air traffic control worker was managing the...

Marie Owens-Powell, president of the union that represents more than 8,500 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency, did not mince words during a Friday call about morale among its members: "It's bad. I've been with the agency for over 33 years and I've never seen anything like this."

Starting Wednesday morning, more than 1,100 employees at the EPA received an email, which has been viewed by CBS News, warning they could be immediately fired because of their probationary status as an employee with less than a year in their current role.

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A former senior adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was arrested on charges of conspiring with Chinese officials to steal Federal Reserve trade secrets, federal court filings unsealed Friday revealed.

Prosecutors allege that John Harold Rogers conspired with people in China to steal trade secrets from the Fed's Board of Governors and Open Market Committee and made false statements to the Federal Reserve inspector general.

The indictment alleges that Rogers exploited his relationship with the Federal Reserve and gave information to...

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a memo to the acting FBI director Friday evening directing him to

The prime ministerial candidate responds to Donald Trump imposing 25% tariffs on Canada.

The move follows talks in Caracas between the Venezuelan leader and Trump official Richard Grenell.

Sixty-seven people are believed to have died in Wednesday's disaster, which is being investigated.

On a national day of mourning after 9/11, then-President George W. Bush told the nation that the tragedy had brought political parties together in a kinship of grief, with no room for politics. But President Trump took on a different tone Thursday after another national tragedy -- the deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C. Margaret Brennan explains.

There were reportedly six people on board, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

NTSB officials say recorders from both aircraft have been recovered in good condition as the investigation into the crash continues.