General Politics

Washington — Virginia officials on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow the state to move forward with its removal of roughly 1,600 alleged noncitizens from its voter rolls, seeking its intervention just days before the November general election.

State election officials requested the high court pause a lower court order that blocked Virginia from continuing its systematic voter removal program that was launched in August, exactly 90 days before Election Day. A provision of the National Voter Registration Act requires states to complete programs...

Salome Zourabichivili has called Georgians out on the streets, telling the BBC this is a "crucial moment".

No suspects have been named but the president has ordered a counter-mission to root out the culprits.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refrained from pledging immediate retaliation while President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran did not seek war.

Evo Morales said he survived an attempt on his life on Sunday, blaming the current government.

The Philadelphia district attorney sued Elon Musk and his super PAC on Monday over the billionaire's controversial $1 million giveaway.

Former President Donald Trump's campaign sought to distance themselves from an offensive joke about Puerto Rico at Madison Square Garden before Trump spoke.

Washington — Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee and Attorney General Merrick Garland are in court Monday in a dispute over audio recordings of President Biden's interview with Rober Hur, the special counsel who investigated his handling of classified materials after his vice presidency.

The committee sued Garland in July in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, escalating the fight over the audiotapes of Hur's interview with the president and the ghostwriter of his book, Mark Zwonitzer. Hur interviewed both men as part of...

With Election Day eight days away, the CBS News poll shows a close race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Both candidates delivered closing arguments, with Trump holding a rally at Madison Square Garden, and Harris campaigning in Pennsylvania. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa joins "CBS Mornings Plus" with analysis.

The Trump campaign says they don't reflect his views.

Witnesses say police dispersed crowds of partygoers, while photos of arrests have circulated online.

PM Shigeru Ishiba took a political gamble - and it backfired, leaving him and his party weakened.

Vice President Kamala Harris, responding to former President Donald Trump's claims about her IQ, said she would take a cognitive test — and "would challenge him to take the same one."

"This is what he has resorted to, and I think he actually is increasingly unstable and unhinged and has resorted to name calling because he actually has no plan for the American people," Harris said in an interview with "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell conducted on the campaign trail in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The vice president pointed to a...

With just eight days until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting the seven states that are expected to decide who wins the 2024 election. On Tuesday, Harris is set to give what her campaign calls her major closing argument speech to supporters on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. It's the same spot where former President Donald Trump spoke on Jan. 6, 2021, just hours before the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Former President Donald Trump rallied at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, talking about the economy, the border and unleashing attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris. Allies joined the former president at the rally, but a joke about Puerto Rico by a comedian is drawing backlash.