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A lightsaber Darth Vader used in the Star Wars films “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi” sold at auction Thursday for more than $3.6 million.The iconic prop had been estimated to sell for between $1 and $3 million, according to the auction site Propstore, which hosted the bidding. There were 31 bids, with the winning one at $3,654,000.”Wielded by both David Prowse” — the Darth Vader actor — “and stunt performer Bob Anderson, this is the primary dueling prop created for Vader’s character in both Empire and Jedi,” the site says. “It saw extensive use during the…

Members of the U.S. Park Police guard an entrance to the 9th Street tunnel in front of the Smithsonian Castle on Aug. 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C., after the Trump administration initiated a federal takeover of D.C. police and deployed the National Guard in the city. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images In a letter sent Friday to the Smithsonian Institution’s secretary, Lonnie G. Bunch, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and three other Democratic senators urged Bunch to resist any attempts by the White House to “bully the institution to go against its mission and values.” The…

The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to accommodate roughly 250 federal agents and 140 vehicles at a military base in Illinois ahead of an expected increase in immigration roundups in the Chicago area, according to an internal government memo obtained by CBS News. In a request for assistance to the Department of Defense, a top Homeland Security official indicated the Naval Station Great Lakes — the largest military base in Illinois and the Navy’s largest training station — would be used as a staging area to oversee “removal operations” in the metropolitan Chicago area targeting immigrants suspected of…

September 5, 2025 It’s still unclear—and that’s the problem. Ad Policy DC Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks the US District Courthouse in Washington, DC, on August 15, 2025. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images) Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser has undergone a rapid transformation over the past three weeks. What began as capitulation to Trump’s ongoing military occupation of the city has now become a pivot to something confused, unclear, and perhaps even ominous. The regime’s criminalization of DC’s residents is no longer—as her defenders claim—something being imposed on Bowser by racist, sexist Donald Trump. This now appears to be…

Savannah, Ga. — U.S. immigration authorities on Thursday raided the sprawling site where Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles in southeast Georgia, conducting a search that shut down construction on an adjacent factory being built to produce EV batteries.In a post on X, the Atlanta office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it “joined HSI, FBI, DEA, ICE, GSP and other agencies in a major immigration enforcement operation at the Hyundai mega site battery plant in Bryan County, GA, leading to the apprehension of 450 unlawful aliens, emphasizing our commitment to community safety.”The operation targeted one of Georgia’s…

Washington — Former President Joe Biden recently underwent skin cancer surgery, a spokeswoman confirmed to CBS News.The spokeswoman said Biden “recently had Mohs surgery.” She didn’t immediately provide any other details.The procedure involves cutting away thin layers of skin until only cancer-free tissue remains in the treated area.Biden was spotted with a wound on the right side of his head in recent days, in photos and videos published by Inside Edition and the New York Post. In 2023, Biden had a small skin lesion with cancerous tissue removed from his chest during a physical exam. Further testing confirmed the lesion was basal…

More than 20 Democrats under the age of 40 have announced bids for Congress, with roughly half challenging sitting members of their own party. Above, the U.S. Capitol Dome is seen during sunrise on Sept. 5, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images With the midterm elections a little more than a year away, a growing number of Democratic candidates in their 20s and 30s are stepping up to run for Congress. But on the other side of the aisle, young conservatives appear to be staying on the sidelines, at least for now. More than 20…

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Washington — A federal appeals court on Thursday halted a lower court ruling that required Florida and the Trump administration to dismantle parts of “Alligator Alcatraz,” a controversial immigration detention site in the Everglades.The 2-1 ruling by a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will effectively allow Alligator Alcatraz to stay open while a lawsuit challenging the detention center on environmental grounds works its way through the court system.The Department of Homeland Security began moving detainees out of the site late last month. But the state has said Alligator Alcatraz will ramp back…

A view of the Pentagon on Dec. 13, 2024, in Washington, D.C. President Trump has said he would like to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday to give the Department of Defense a new name: the Department of War. The change would return the department to a name that it carried for much of its history, until it became the Department of Defense in the wake of World War II. The executive order was…