Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — Federal law enforcement officials said Monday ...

Explosive devices were intended to detonate on New Year's Eve, officials said. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the FBI disrupted a "massive and ...

The US Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), in its December 10th meeting, trimmed the key lending rate by 25 basis points. However in 2026, the central bank expects to continue on ...

During a White House press briefing this month, press secretary Karoline Leavitt scolded Trump's political opponents. Leavitt stated, "The Democrats have completely lost the plot." 'Hero' bystander ...

"New York Street with Moon" by Georgia O’Keeffe (left) on view in 2025 at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art alongside works by Roger Brown. (Credit: Annika Nelson, provided by the ...

The choice of the United Arab Emirates as host of the 2023 United Nations climate summit was, to say the least, controversial. As an autocratic petrostate with dubious environmental and human-rights ...

Two men face federal charges for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired Halloween attack in the US – possibly on the scale of the 2015 Paris terror attacks that killed ...

A Republican congressman from Ohio condemned the display of an altered American flag that included a swastika in his office, calling it “a vile and deeply inappropriate symbol” that his office is ...

Today’s leaders face increasingly complex decisions and moral puzzles, often without a clear compass to navigate them. Many are weighing painful cost-cutting measures due to economic uncertainty and ...