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The effort by President Biden's campaign to target both supporters of former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and moderate Republicans in general is ramping up.

The Biden-Harris campaign announced Thursday the hire of Austin Weatherford — longtime chief of staff to former Rep. Adam Kinzinger — as a "national Republican engagement director," a Biden campaign official told CBS News.

Weatherford will lead outreach efforts to "independents and moderate Republicans who know what a danger Donald Trump is to the country if reelected for a second...

Getting the NBA’s next round of media rights deals completed is an extremely complex proposition, Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday, especially because nobody can say with any certainty what the viewing landscape will look like in the future

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed a bill that would impose another hurdle for the implementation of ranked-choice voting, which may be on the November ballot

As of 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, the U.S. border with Mexico was shut down to nearly all migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

The drastic action, the result of an executive order signed by President Biden, was designed to keep the border closed at least through Election Day and defuse one of the president’s biggest vulnerabilities in his campaign against former President Donald J. Trump.

The question is how broadly it can be enforced, especially along a 2,000-mile border that does not have nearly the capacity to manage the number of people...

Jill Biden, the first lady, left President Biden’s side in France on Thursday to make the trans-Atlantic trip back to Delaware, where Hunter Biden is standing trial on gun charges.

The first lady is then scheduled to return to France for a state visit on Saturday, according to her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander.

The departure of the first lady from a high-profile foreign trip was perhaps the most dramatic illustration yet of the Biden family’s personal priorities, which lie some 3,600 miles away from France, in Courtroom 4A of the J...

Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in the strike which Israel says targeted Hamas.

Researchers use the device to take remote biopsies from wild humpback whales to monitor their health.

Social media footage shows dozens of bodies wrapped in shrouds prepared for burial in Gezira state.

A US court has ordered ex-Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon to turn himself in by 1 July.

In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, two Republican members of a county canvassing board last month refused to sign off on the results of an election that led to the recall of three GOP members of the county commission. They did so only after state officials warned them it was their legal duty to record the final vote tally.

In Georgia's Fulton County, which includes the Democratic-voting city of Atlanta, a group run by members of former President Donald Trump's administration last month sued so a Republican member of the local elections board could...

At Baker Heights Elementary, everything seems to be coming apart, and it's Timothy Scott's job to try to patch whatever's broken — whether it be falling ceiling tiles or a water fountain falling off the wall.

"It could be fixed, it could be repaired, but we're pulling funding from the classroom," Scott said.

Baker, Louisiana, just outside Baton Rouge, is home to roughly 12,000 people. Money is tight, and the population and tax base are shrinking. The infrastructure, including five school buildings that were all built in the 1950s, is crumbling...

Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, two sources told CBS News.

The top four leaders of the House and Senate formally invited Netanyahu last week "to share the Israeli government's vision for defending democracy, combatting terror, and establishing a just and lasting peace in the region. But the invitation did not specify a date.

There was brief confusion about the date on Monday, when Punchbowl News reported that the address would happen June 13. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a...

Former President Donald Trump Thursday night will return to the campaign trail Thursday for the first time since he was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business documents in his New York criminal trial. Trump will hold a rally in the battleground state of Arizona, where CBS News polling shows he leads President Biden. Caitlin Huey-Burns reports from Phoenix.

Here are four big takeaways from Day 4 of Hunter Biden's federal gun trial in Wilmington, Delaware.

The N.A.A.C.P., the oldest and largest civil rights group in the nation, called on Thursday for President Biden to “draw the red line” and halt weapons shipments to Israel over the mounting civilian death toll in its war in Gaza.

In a rare foray into foreign policy, the influential organization added to the mounting pressure from Black leaders on Mr. Biden to stop aiding Israel’s war in Gaza. Its warning comes as Mr. Biden tries to shore up softening support among Black Americans, a constituency that was crucial in catapulting him to the White House...