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Though 90 of the 157 stranded whales survived, they could not be saved due to complex conditions.

The Senate voted Tuesday along party lines to advance the nomination of Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick for FBI director, clearing a procedural hurdle to set up a final vote on the controversial Trump ally to lead the federal law enforcement agency.

Lawmakers in the Upper Chamber voted 48-45 to advance Patel's nomination, as Democrats hold concerns that he would operate as a loyalist for the president and target the administration's political enemies.

This sets up a final confirmation vote later in the week. Some of Trump's other more...

Manila says it will file a formal protest over the latest incident in the South China Sea.

In a heated exchange Tuesday, a federal judge pressed the Justice Department on an executive order from President Donald Trump that directed the military to stop using preferred pronouns, arguing there was no link between pronouns and military readiness.

U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes had asked the Justice Department to explain to how pronoun usage would impact military readiness during a hearing on Trump's order.

“I don’t—” said Justice Department attorney Jason C. Lynch, before the judge interrupted him.

“Because it doesn’t," Reyes said...

DOGE's Elon Musk opened up in an interview alongside President Trump with Fox News Sean Hannity about a dinner party where he said he realized how "real" Democratic animosity toward Trump can be.

"I happened to mention the president's name and it was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained like methamphetamine and rabies," Musk said in the Tuesday night interview while recounting a situation where he mentioned Trump's name at a dinner party and quickly received pushback.

Musk imitated people at the party going crazy and...

The White House on Tuesday afternoon posted a video online showing immigrants in shackles being prepared to board a deportation flight from Seattle.

The video includes footage of a set of handcuffs and chains jingling as they are pulled from a basket containing other shackles and then laid out on the airport tarmac next to four other sets of restraints.

The X post by the White House is titled, "ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight."

ASMR is a nonclinical term that stands for "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response." It refers to a pleasant...

The Trump administration has enacted a pause on all immigration applications filed by migrants from Latin America and Ukraine allowed into the U.S. under certain Biden-era programs, citing fraud and security concerns, according to two U.S. officials and an internal memo obtained by CBS News.

The application freeze will remain in place indefinitely while government officials work to identify potential cases of fraud and enhance vetting procedures to mitigate concerns related to national security and public safety, according to the directive.

The...

DOGE chief Elon Musk revealed details about his thought process on endorsing President Trump during a sit-down interview with Trump and Fox News anchor Sean Hannity on Tuesday night that the president said he had not heard before.

"I was going to do it anyway," Musk said during the interview that aired Tuesday night when Hannity mentioned that his endorsement of Trump came after an attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania on the campaign trail.

"That was it?" Hannity said.

"That was a precipitating event," Musk said.

KAROLINE LEAVITT: TRUMP...

In a lawsuit filed on Monday, multiple taxpayer and union groups alleged Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) violated multiple laws in its quest to unearth and eliminate wasteful government spending.

The groups claim DOGE launched a "sweeping campaign to access highly-sensitive information systems" and violated laws that limit executive power, protect civil servants, and guard citizens' data held by the government.

The agency, which was created by an executive order earlier this year, remains a temporary organization within the...

The former Brazilian president has been charged with attempting a coup after his 2022 election loss.

Ukrainian soldiers are paying little attention to US diplomacy and civilians doubt good will come of it.

The Trump administration on Tuesday stopped support for legal representation in immigration court for children who enter the United States alone, a setback for those fighting deportation who can't afford a lawyer.

The Acacia Center for Justice says it serves 26,000 migrant children under its federal contract. The Interior Department gave no explanation for the stop-work order, telling the group only that it was done for “causes outside of your control” and should not be interpreted as a judgment of poor performance. The halt remains in effect until...

Krystena Murray, 38, of Georgia, is suing Coastal Fertility Specialists after a mix-up allegedly led to her giving birth to another couple's biological child.

U.S. officials say Department of Government Efficiency staffers were at the Pentagon on Tuesday and receiving lists of the military's probationary employees

A federal judge said the Department of Government Efficiency's access to sensitive government agencies' data appears to be "unchecked authority of an unelected individual," but allowed the access to continue. At Mar-a-Lago, President Trump defended Elon Musk, but went on the offense against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over Russia's invasion. Nancy Cordes has more.