Gaining full control of Strait of Hormuz has proven exceptionally hard for U.S. Here's why.  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Washington — President Trump has been trying to force Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz for months, turning to everything from airstrikes and naval blockades …

GOP's Ron Johnson shares, then retracts, a conspiratorial ‘rumor’ about Mitch McConnell  —  We've known for a month that Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was hospitalized, but neither he nor anyone on his team has been willing to say why.  Over the weekend, McConnell finally took steps …

ICE agent shoots and kills a motorist in Biddeford, Maine, Sen. Angus King says  —  A federal immigration officer fatally shot a Colombian man in Maine on Monday, marking the second time in a week that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have used deadly force.

‘Did you call 911?’  Tuberville recounts Graham's frantic final phone call  —  A Senate Republican added further detail to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's, R-S.C., final moments thanks to an unlikely connection.  —  Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., revealed that it was a former member …

Marco Rubio Threatens to “Teach” the ICC the “Full Meaning of American Resolve”  —  The secretary of state announced what he characterized as a “campaign to dismantle” the International Criminal Court. … US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday announced what he characterized as a …

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Modifies Two National Monuments, Restoring Sensible Land Management  —  RIGHTSIZING UTAH NATIONAL MONUMENTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed Proclamations modifying two Utah national monuments, the Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

E. Jean Carroll finally gets Trump's $5 million — plus interest  —  Writer E. Jean Carroll finally has the $5 million — plus interest — that a jury ordered President Donald Trump to pay her in damages in one of her two cases against him, after Trump fought the payout for years.

Blanche Was a Driving Force in Retribution Campaign, Emails Show  —  The cooperation of Todd Blanche in President Trump's retribution against enemies will be a flashpoint in his confirmation hearing to be attorney general on Wednesday.  —  Todd Blanche, then the Justice Department's No. 2 official …

Democrats lead by 26 points among “double haters” in the 2026 House midterms vote  —  One in five Americans rates both parties unfavorably.  These voters lean Democratic and say Trump has hurt the economy  —  ∙ Paid  —  Americans have never liked their political parties less.

The See-No-Evil Supreme Court … The Roberts Court accelerated its assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the Reconstruction amendments this term, leaving only the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship intact—and that by only one vote.  Across multiple cases dealing …

Stephen Miller's Wife Melts Down Over What's Sitting on Trump's Desk  —  STICKY FINGERS  —  The president failed to hide the embarrassing item while appearing before the press.  —  Katie Miller, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, failed to see the funny side …

Oil Surges Most Since 2020, Reflecting Bet That Strait Won't Go Back to Normal  —  International crude price climbed nearly 10% as President Trump said he would reimpose U.S. blockade  —  Oil markets and Middle East producers appear to be aligning around a new reality …

Warren Buffett stops Gates Foundation donations following Epstein revelations  —  Warren Buffett confirmed he has stopped donating money to the Gates Foundation, following revelations about interactions between the Microsoft (MSFT.O) co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public  —  “A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product.” … Meta's camera-equipped “AI Glasses” are so divisive that some adopters are now leaving their expensive smart glasses at home, as Engadget reports.

Pollution from Musk's unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communities  —  Elon Musk's xAI has installed far more gas turbines without federal permits at its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee than it has publicly acknowledged, and the pollution is hitting predominantly …

Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems”  —  Yesterday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled the Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew.  This new unit in NYC government will hire dozens of tech specialists charged with making the city services work better for the public.

New York to impose the country's first statewide moratorium on data centers  —  New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology.

Mexico files criminal complaints in US over migrant deaths in custody  —  Mexico has begun filing criminal complaints with state prosecutors in the United States over the deaths of its citizens in U.S. immigration custody and during enforcement operations, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds  —  Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’  —  It's been a brutal tactic deployed …

Trump's National Guard deployment in D.C. has been extended until 2029  —  WASHINGTON - The National Guard will remain deployed in Washington, D.C. through Inauguration Day 2029 as part of President Trump's anti-crime mission in the city, unless the president deems otherwise, the Pentagon confirmed to NPR.

The Democratic Establishment Had This Coming  —  The Graham Platner saga should not distract from a fact that is bigger than any one candidate: The uprising against the Democratic establishment is coming from the voters, and it cannot be contained.  —  Rising leftists have won primary elections for Congress in New York and Colorado.

The Race to Become the Democratic Left's Next Power Firm  —  Behind a string of recent leftist victories in Democratic primaries across the country is a growing ecosystem of progressive media consulting firms and strategists positioning themselves ahead of a wide-open 2028 presidential cycle.

Trump ballroom donor to lead state department's $200m Armenia fund  —  Konstantin Sokolov, who gave undisclosed sum and has not held government job before, to chair Tripp+ trade project  —  Konstantin Sokolov, a Russian-born private equity investor in Chicago, will serve as chairman …

The World Made Anew … With a whimper rather than a bang, the world has become a different place than it was in January 2021, when Donald Trump left office.  Almost everything we are now told about the global status quo is mistaken—largely because critics focus on what Trump says rather than on what he does.

DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy.  The Government Won't Say How  —  In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE's use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn't exist.  —  Members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …

Luna signals she will end revolt, vote to allow the House to debate legislation  —  Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is signaling she will vote to reopen the House floor Tuesday after a weekslong power struggle with Speaker Mike Johnson over a partisan election security bill known as the SAVE America Act.

Lettuce or salad greens could be source of diarrhea-causing illness, Michigan health officials say  —  The foodborne gastrointestinal illness has shown up in 31 states, and federal health officials say 86 people have been hospitalized. … Lettuce or salad greens could be the source …