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EXCLUSIVE: Republican leaders in the House and Senate sent a joint letter Thursday morning to the U.S. Small Business Administration demanding travel schedules, official calendars and other documents from the cabinet agency amid allegations it is involved in partisan voter registration outreach in key swing states like Michigan.

Republican Reps. Roger Williams of Texas and Joni Ernst of Iowa demanded the SBA comply with congressional oversight on the matter, which has also led to at least one Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from a good-government...

FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Andy Ogles is introducing the "Let Trump Speak Act" on Thursday to prohibit judges from issuing gag orders to defendants, like former President Trump, in any criminal or civil proceeding.

"We have watched for years as a politically-weaponized Department of Justice and Democrat activist judges have gone after President Donald J. Trump," the Tennessee Republican told Fox News Digital. "There is no right more sacred to Americans than the right to speak freely, as guaranteed in the First Amendment."

Ogles, a strong Trump ally, added...

A House Republican-led bill aimed at

FIRST ON FOX: Riley Gaines blasted an "ignorant at best or a sellout at worst" Democrat House candidate for claiming to be "in the middle" on issues, then expressing support for students in Montana to play sports based on gender identity.

Monica Tranel, who is running for the seat currently held by Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., has made several claims of taking a more moderate position on issues, writing in a May 8 post on X that "being in the middle is in my DNA." On Tranel's campaign website, the Democrat also said that she is running for Congress "to...

Cohen has already been confronted with questions about his expletive-filled statements aimed at Trump.

The EU says its concerned the platforms algorithms "stimulate behavioural addictions in children."

The Oscar winner has not appeared in film or on stage since 2017 after sexual assault claims.

The US economic boom has consequences for the global balance of power - and for the UK.

The "grief tech" firms helping users create talking avatars of their dead relatives.

The Supreme Court rejected a challenge on Thursday to the way the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is funded, one that could have hobbled the bureau and advanced a central goal of the conservative legal movement: limiting the power of independent agencies.

The vote was 7 to 2, with Justice Clarence Thomas writing the majority opinion.

Had the bureau lost, the court’s ruling might have cast doubt on every regulation and enforcement action it had taken in its 13 years of existence, including ones concerning mortgages, credit cards, consumer loans...

The Serbian government has approved a contract with Jared Kushner on plans to build a luxury hotel on the site of the former defense ministry in Belgrade, putting him directly into business with a European state as his father-in-law, Donald J. Trump, vies to return to the White House.

Mr. Kushner is pursuing the $500 million hotel project in partnership with Richard Grenell. A former Trump administration aide, Mr. Grenell first proposed that U.S. investors attempt to redevelop the long-vacant bombed-out site of the former Yugoslav Ministry of...

President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur that's at the center a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, the Justice Department told lawmakers in a letter publicly released on Thursday.

It comes as the the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the Judiciary Committee are each expected to hold a hearing to recommend that the full House refer Garland to the Justice Department for the contempt charges over the department's...

A rare "high risk" warning for flash flooding has been issued in Texas and Louisiana.

Washington — President Biden asserted executive privilege over audio recordings from an investigation into his handling of classified documents, a top Justice Department official revealed in a letter to House committee leaders obtained by CBS News.

The assertion came at the recommendation of the Justice Department, as the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees were slated to move forward with markups of a contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday for defying their request for audio recordings from an...

Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, a U.S. soldier jailed in the Russian city of Vladivostok, has entered a guilty plea to theft charges and is cooperating with investigators in the case, Russia's state-run news outlets said Thursday.

"He is cooperating, he admitted [guilt]," the RIA news agency cited a representative of the local interior ministry as saying.

CBS News has been unable to obtain contact details for lawyers representing Black in Russia, and it was not possible to verify the information reported by Russian state media.

Black was detained in...