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Sen. Josh Hawely, R-Mo., is reigniting a congressional push to ban the Chinese Communist Party from buying up farmland and residential land in the U.S. on Thursday.

Hawley is introducing the Protecting Our Farms and Homes from China Act, which bans Chinese corporations and individuals associated with the Chinese Communist Party from making such purchases. President Donald Trump's administration has sounded the alarm about Chinese ownership of U.S. land in recent days, particularly around American military bases.

"China's ownership of U.S. farmland...

Department of Justice leaders are facing sharp criticism and resignation calls from a faction of their supporters after they ended their inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case without releasing new files.

The outrage, emanating largely from the right, can be tied to several past instances when those same leaders and other Republicans with large platforms once promoted the existence of incriminating, nonpublic Epstein case files, including a supposed list of sexual predators who were his clients.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director...

A week before an expected committee vote on the controversial nomination of Trump ally Emil Bove for a federal judgeship, CBS News has obtained emails and text messages shared with Congress by a whistleblower who accuses Bove of unethical actions while he was a top Justice Department official this year.

The messages are expected to be released Thursday by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats who are trying to defeat Bove's nomination for a judicial appointment to the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The text and email messages allegedly offer...

A university in France says nearly 300 American researchers have applied for a space in its "Safe Place for Science" program that was created to lure U.S. researchers seeking "scientific asylum" amid aggressive academic spending cuts and other actions against colleges by the Trump administration.

Brian Sandberg, who has taught history at a major U.S. state university for almost two decades, is one of those who've sought to take advantage of the program launched in March by Aix-Marseille University.

He told CBS News the U.S. risks losing its...

A member of the Columbia University Board of Trustees is calling on the school to comply with the Trump administration's demands regarding alleged antisemitism on campus and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

In a letter delivered Monday and obtained by CBS News, Dr. Shoshana Shendelman also demanded a formal apology from acting school President Claire Shipman and board co-chairs David Greenwald and Jeh Johnson.

"The conduct which has been exhibited by Columbia leadership in recent months — particularly the failure to decisively address...

A new bill in Massachusetts aims to require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other federal immigration enforcement officers to unmask.

The legislative proposal was introduced Wednesday by Democratic state Rep. James Hawkins.

It calls for a new section to the Massachusetts Penal Code that states, "A law enforcement officer shall not wear any mask or personal disguise while interacting with the public in the performance of their duties, except for medical grade masks that are surgical or N95 respirators designed to prevent...

Senate Republicans are gearing up to claw back billions of dollars in foreign aid and public broadcasting funding, but dissent is brewing among some who could eat into President Donald Trump’s cut request.

A cohort of Senate Republicans are publicly and privately growing squeamish over the White House’s $9.4 billion rescissions package, which would slash $8.3 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the government-backed funding arm for NPR and PBS...

President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama chatted about golf during a viral moment of bipartisanship during former President Jimmy Carter's funeral in January, just days before Trump's return to the Oval Office, a new book detailing the unprecedented 2024 election cycle reported.

Trump and Obama were seen smiling and quietly chatting with one another in the pews of the Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9, 2025, in a moment that spread like wildfire on social media as Americans sounded off with speculation over what the pair of...

Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova is departing Washington, D.C., according to Ukraine's foreign ministry.

The move comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks to inject new blood into U.S.-Ukraine relations. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha announced the change on Wednesday in a broadcast on Ukrainian radio.

"She is extremely effective and charismatic, but every diplomat has a rotation cycle," Sybiha said.

Markarova made headlines for her reaction to President Donald Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelenskyy inside the...

President Donald Trump told donors in 2024 he had cautioned Russian President Vladimir Putin that bombs would drop on Moscow if the Russian leader invaded Ukraine, a new book claims.

The book, "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America," was published on Tuesday and chronicles how Trump secured his victory in the November 2024 election, and how former President Joe Biden's team dismissed concerns about his age in the campaign cycle.

TRUMP DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT: ‘NOT OUR PEOPLE, NOT OUR SOLDIERS’...

Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed when a queue for nutritional supplements was hit in Deir al-Balah.

A woman tells the BBC about her anxieties after a US-funded clinic that gave her medication closed.

Governor Greg Abbott said search and rescue efforts would continue in the wake of the deadly floods "until this job is finished".

"Without a border protected, you don't have a nation," the former secretary of state tells the BBC.

The new deputy director says his organisation was "totally accountable" for the violence at Trump's rally in 2024.