Politics

Washington — CBS News has learned of a series of efforts on Capitol Hill in the final days of the 117th Congress to make it easier to remove the embattled Architect of the Capitol or to reduce his ability to misuse a perk of his office.     The new efforts …

Former Trump White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway met on Monday with staff members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.  Conway’s attorney, Emmet Flood, joined her for the meeting. Conway arrived at the conference room where the committee meets shortly after …

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a long-awaited list of cyber performance goals for the nation’s critical infrastructure.  The 28-page guide represents a major step forward for the Biden administration’s cyber agenda, featuring a broad list of cybersecurity performance goals and a substantial glossary of terms. The …

The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against tech giant Google, alleging the company has been suppressing its email solicitations ahead of the midterm elections in November — an allegation Google denies. The lawsuit, filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of California Friday evening, accuses Gmail …

The Biden administration has changed its guidance to eliminate some student loans from eligibility for forgiveness, a major reversal as the Department of Education makes final preparations to launch debt relief applications.  As of Thursday, borrowers with student loans through the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program and Perkins Loans …

More than a month after the FBI seizure of records from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence the U.S. House Oversight Committee is urging the National Archives “to seek from former President Trump a written certification that he has surrendered all presidential records or classified materials.”   “In light of …

Washington – Former Attorney General William Barr denounced a Florida federal judge’s order authorizing the appointment of a special master to review the documents seized at former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence, calling the ruling “wrong” and “deeply flawed.”  “The opinion, I think, was wrong, and I think the government …

Washington — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team on Wednesday again urged a federal judge to appoint a third party —known as a special master — to review the documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this month.  In a 19-page filing, Trump’s lawyers called the Aug. 8 execution of a …

Washington — Texas on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration seeking to block its new mandate that hospitals provide abortions if the life of the mother is at risk, even in states with bans on the procedure that do not include exceptions. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought …

Attorney General Merrick Garland is detailing the next steps in the Justice Department’s critical incident review of the Uvalde school shooting that resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two adults. “There is nothing that we can do that can undo the pain borne both by the survivors’ families, …