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The Trump administration is expected to send dozens of letters this week to countries that have not made a trade deal with the U.S. Willie James Inman reports.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit President Trump at the White House Monday as Gaza ceasefire talks resume in Qatar. Elizabeth Palmer reports.

Hamas said it has responded to the latest ceasefire proposal positively but there are still gaps to be bridged.

After Monday's attack, family members told the BBC of their shock at the scale of civilian casualties.

Yoweri Museveni has been endorsed by the ruling party as its candidate in the 2026 election.

Earlier this week, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader confirmed plans for a successor.

A Jewish advocacy group is blasting Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani for sharing a video mocking Hanukkah Jewish traditions on social media.

The organization, Stop Antisemitism, says Mamdani posted the "sick" video to his X account last year. The video is originally from the Geeta Brothers Duet Group, a satirical and comedic duo who dressed themselves in stereotypical Jewish garb for the performance.

"Zohran Mamdani posts Indian men cosplaying Jews, spinning dreidels and lighting the menorah," Stop Antisemitism wrote in a...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's father, a longtime academic and Ivy League professor, said during a 2022 panel discussion about one of his many books that Adolf Hitler drew his inspiration for the Holocaust from Abraham Lincoln.

The younger Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, has credited his parents with providing him a "privileged upbringing," one that included frequent discussions on politics and global affairs, according to a New York Times profile on the mayoral candidate and his parents. Mamdani's mother is an...

Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., says he disagrees with Zohran Mamdani when it comes to his positions, but said his fellow Democrats could learn something from the democratic socialist — something that reminds him of President Donald Trump.

"You have to recognize that he tapped into something," Suozzi said on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "He tapped into the same thing that Donald Trump tapped into, which is that people are concerned that the economy is not working for them."

The "democratic capitalist," as he describes himself, said in a Wall Street...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Sunday that President Donald Trump's megabill will be "jet fuel" for the economy despite Democrats' criticisms.

Johnson, who ceremoniously handed Trump the gavel after the president signed his signature tax cuts and spending package into law Friday, teased two future bills to be passed within the next year. In an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," he said the "big, beautiful bill," which is "a huge leap forward for our priorities," is the first step in a three-tier strategy. Johnson expects a second...

Camp Mystic, where young girls were having the "time of their life" just days ago, is now the site of one of the deadliest disasters.

Washington — White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that "rough outlines of the deals are becoming clear" ahead of a key tariff deadline this week, with agreements like the U.K. and Vietnam deals serving as "guidelines for what might happen" with other countries.

"There's going to be quite a bit of news this week, and I think the headline of the news is that there are going to be deals that are finalized," Hassett said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

With President Trump's 90-day freeze on sweeping...

This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Weijia Jiang speaks with Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York and the director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, in the aftermath of President Trump’s newly signed “big, beautiful bill.” Meanwhile, search and rescue operations are ongoing in central Texas after devastating flash floods killed dozens.

On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, moderated by Weijia Jiang:

Click here to browse full transcripts from 2025 of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

WEIJIA JIANG: I'm Weijia Jiang in Washington.

And this week on Face the Nation: President Trump gets a big Independence Day win, as his One Big Beautiful Bill is signed into law.

And devastating flash floods kill dozens in Texas. Tragedy this holiday weekend, as flash floods sweep through parts of Texas, killing at least 50, including 15 children, some of whom were at...

Football and basketball coaches are experts in clock management.

So are lawmakers.

Coaches are adept at either burning or saving just enough time on the clock to execute a play – or prevent the other team from doing so.

Congressional clock management is very different.

TRUMP $3.3T MEGABILL SETS HOUSE RECORD FOR LONGEST VOTE IN HISTORY

Whatever lawmakers say they will do – it will always take them a profoundly longer period of time in which to do it.

That’s why the temporal politics of passing President Donald Trump’s "big, beautiful bill"...