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Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat of Texas, said on Sunday that she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but plans to continue her work in Congress as she undergoes treatment.

Ms. Jackson Lee, who at 74 has served nearly three decades in the House, said in a statement that she was undergoing a treatment plan mapped out by her team of doctors. She added that “the road ahead will not be easy” and would likely lead to occasional absences.

The announcement comes as attendance in the House of Representatives has received more attention...

Former President Donald J. Trump has described his plans to remove large numbers of unauthorized immigrants from the country if elected to a second term by citing the mass deportations under President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s.

In that initiative, federal agents and law enforcement officers used military techniques such as sweeps, raids and surveillance checkpoints — as well as a blunt form of racial profiling — to round up undocumented workers and load them onto buses and boats. As many as 1.3 million people were expelled, mostly Mexican...

Larry Bensky, a radio journalist whose reporting on major political events made him the signature voice of Pacifica Radio, a network of progressive, listener-supported stations, died on May 19 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 87.

His wife, Susie Bluestone, said he died in home hospice care.

Mr. Bensky’s gavel-to-gavel coverage of the congressional Iran-contra hearings of 1987 put the Pacifica network on the map, earning him a prestigious Polk Award for radio reporting.

Mr. Bensky, who called himself an activist-journalist, brought leftist...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there are "gaps" between the cease-fire deal Israel proposed and the version of it that President Biden described on Friday.

Netanyahu stated Monday that Biden's description of the deal was "incomplete," indicating it was less expansive than Biden had suggested.

"The proposal that Biden presented is incomplete," Netanyahu said. "The war will stop in order to bring hostages back, and afterward we will hold discussions. There are other details that the U.S. president did not present to the public."...

The coast guard says the body of an unidentified man has been recovered off a beach northeast of the Greek capital with a 10-kilogram (22-pound) barbell attached to his leg with a rope

Washington — Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to testify on Monday before a Republican-led House panel investigating the origins of COVID-19 and the government's pandemic response, in a widely anticipated hearing where the intense partisan divide over the pandemic is likely to be once again on display.

The hearing marks Fauci's first public appearance on Capitol Hill since leaving government in 2022, where he served as the chief medical advisor to President Biden and as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Fauci, who...

El Paso, Texas — President Biden is expected to issue a long-anticipated executive order as early as Tuesday to partially shut down asylum processing along the U.S.-Mexico border, three people briefed on the planned announcement told CBS News.

The sweeping move is expected to allow U.S. immigration officials to quickly deport migrants who enter the U.S. illegally, without processing their asylum claims, when border crossings surpass a certain threshold, the people said. It would rely on a presidential authority known as 212(f), which gained infamy...

The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans’ budgets

Urban and rural communities have come to depend on pharmacies as a trusted care option and a place for advice

Get updates on the federal gun trial of President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.

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Officials believe Moscow could be behind a stunt in which coffins filled with plaster were left near the Eiffel Tower.

The White House believes Hamas has been weakened to a point that it cannot repeat the 7 October attack.

Fresh Start Produce Sales issued a recall of whole cucumbers over salmonella concerns, which were shipped to 14 states from May 17 to 21.

Claudia Sheinbaum is estimated to have won almost 60% of the vote.