U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the execution of former Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others during the 2009 Fort Hood shooting in Texas. The...

FBI Director Kash Patel is engaged to country singer and political commentator Alexis Wilkins, putting the 27-year-old Nashville-based performer in the national spotlight beyond the music industry. Wilkins announced the engagement on October 4 by...

U.S. Second Lady Usha Vance briefly lost her footing while stepping down from a helicopter at Joint Base Andrews on October 5, creating a tense moment as she carried her infant son, Alec, in a...

The Pentagon has launched a 120-day effort to rethink how the United States could fight wars in an era of artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons, robotics, directed-energy systems, and biotechnology, and it has put some of...

California has drawn a new legal line around marriage and childhood. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1267 (AB 1267) on September 30, 2026, ending the state’s previous system under which minors could marry with...

Calls to pause executions in the United States have intensified after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike left the 50-year-old death row prisoner alive and in critical condition. Christa Pike was administered two doses...

President Donald Trump abruptly shifted a question about renewed violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Ebola outbreak during a White House exchange with an African journalist, producing an unusual moment as the...

Nearly one million Americans are set to receive $500 refund checks from the US government as part of a new initiative announced by President Donald Trump. The Treasury Department is expected to send payments to...

Newly obtained messages from a Cornell University fraternity group chat are adding another layer to a criminal investigation that prosecutors have now reopened nearly two years after an alleged sexual assault. CBS News New York...

The federal immigration agent who allegedly shot and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an ICE operation in Houston has been identified as Gregory Feathers, according to an investigation by The Texas Tribune. An official...