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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...

The DOJ says it shields Attorney General Garland from contempt of Congress.

The White House asserted executive privilege over audio and video recordings related to special counsel Robert Hur's interviews with President Biden.

"I write to inform you that the President has asserted executive privilege over the requested audio recordings and is making a protective assertion of privilege over any remaining materials responsive to the subpoenas that have not already been produced," Associate Attorney General Carlos Uriarte wrote in a letter Thursday to Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer, chairmen of the Committee on the Judiciary...

Ukraine is halting further Russian advances after suffering its largest territorial loss for 18 months.

The number of migrant children crossing the jungle between Colombia and Panama is up by 40%, Unicef says.

A suspected arsonist sprays a mosque with petrol and sets it on fire over a family dispute, police say.

As deadly flash floods hit Afghanistan, whole families and their homes have been swept away.

A U.S. Navy strike group’s flagship aircraft carrier has left its Japanese home port, wrapping up nearly nine years of deployment in the Indo-Pacific, where it served a key role in the U.S. effort to bolster defense ties with Japan and other partners i...

Cameras from multiple angles show the harrowing moments that led to a truck precariously dangling on a bridge over the Ohio River in Louisville.

April and Greg Havener had a close call when a cougar came face-to-face with their family’s cat and 2-month-old puppy near their home in Monroe, Washington.

A Florida deputy's fatal shooting of a U.S. service member has jarred the former top enlisted officer of the Air Force

Beijing — Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Chinese leader Xi Jinping for his efforts to resolve the war in Ukraine at a Beijing summit on Thursday, where the two leaders reaffirmed a "no-limits" partnership that has grown as both countries face rising tension with the West.

Putin's two-day state visit to one of his strongest allies came as his country's forces press an offensive in northeast Ukraine's Kharkiv region - the most significant border incursion since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022.

The largely symbolic visit...

FIRST ON FOX — A conservative legal group and gun rights activists have teamed up to challenge a newly-enacted seven-day waiting period to buy a gun in New Mexico.

The Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) has partnered with the National Rifle Association (NRA) in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that claims New Mexico is denying citizens their Second Amendment rights and their natural right to self-defense. The groups allege in court documents that the waiting period law passed by the Democratic-controlled legislature and signed by Democratic Gov...