Politics & Government News

7:57 PM on Monday, February 23

A Texas man who saw his friend get shot and killed last year by a federal immigration agent died last weekend in a fiery car crash

6:49 PM on Monday, February 23

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is traveling to India, Australia and Japan later this week and next

6:33 PM on Monday, February 23

President Donald Trump has settled a lawsuit with singer Isaac Hayes Jr.’s estate over the campaign’s use of the song “Hold On, I’m Coming” without permission

5:52 PM on Monday, February 23

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is being honored in South Carolina, where he was born and where his civil rights work began as a teenager

5:37 PM on Monday, February 23

The longevity expert Dr. Peter Attia has resigned from a contributor's role at CBS News after his name surfaced in hundreds of documents released as part of the Epstein files

5:26 PM on Monday, February 23

Peruvian authorities say intense rains in the south have triggered deadly mudslides and major damage in the city of Arequipa

5:07 PM on Monday, February 23

Chicago voters took a jab at President Donald Trump this year when they chose “Abolish ICE” as the top choice in the “You Name a Snowplow” contest

4:33 PM on Monday, February 23

The U.S. ambassador to Chile is defending U.S. travel bans on three senior Chilean officials as a security move

4:30 PM on Monday, February 23

A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer says the agency’s training for new deportation officers is broken as ICE ramps up its hiring

4:21 PM on Monday, February 23

The U.S. women’s hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday

4:16 PM on Monday, February 23

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his support for an executive order that would aim to boost the production of a controversial weedkiller ingredient called glyphosate, even though it is widening a political fault line for the administration ahead of the midterm elections

4:02 PM on Monday, February 23

The Education Department is handing over more of its programs and grants to other federal agencies

3:40 PM on Monday, February 23

The U.S. military says it killed three people in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea

2:34 PM on Monday, February 23

A U.S. official focusing on arms control has provided what he called new, declassified details of a Chinese underground nuclear test nearly six years ago

2:04 PM on Monday, February 23

France’s top diplomat has requested that U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner no longer be allowed direct access to members of the French government

11:11 AM on Monday, February 23

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says pressure is building on President Donald Trump as courts and Congress push back on his tariff agenda

9:01 AM on Monday, February 23

Senate Democrats are unveiling a bill to have the government refund about $175 billion in Trump-era tariff money after the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs were illegal

7:30 AM on Monday, February 23

President Donald Trump is threatening countries around the world to abide by any tariff deals they agreed to, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down many of his far-reaching taxes on imports

6:04 AM on Monday, February 23

President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill this week to deliver the State of the Union address

11:05 PM on Sunday, February 22

When the American men’s hockey team retreated to their locker room to celebrate their Winter Olympics gold medal win, they were joined by a special guest from the United States: FBI Director Kash Patel