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July 11, 2025 Here we are, once again learning that the restraints Americans could rely upon in the past are fast disappearing. Ad Policy Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli American Council National Summit at the Washington Hilton on September 19, 2024, in Washington, DC.(Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. “I must say,” Donald Trump commented, “I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in…

From the archives: David Gergen on leadership – CBS News Watch CBS News David Gergen, who had long served as an advisor to presidents of both parties, died on Thursday, July 10, 2025 at the age of 83. In this “Sunday Morning” interview that originally aired May 8, 2022, Gergen told CBS News’ Robert Acosta he believed the older generation running Washington should step aside for younger leadership. He also discussed his book, “Hearts Touched With Fire: How Great Leaders Are Made,” and about the current state of American democracy. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking…

Protesters, federal agents clash after immigration raid on California cannabis farm – CBS News Watch CBS News As workers were being detained during an immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Southern California on Thursday, federal agents fired tear gas and tossed smoke bombs to disperse a crowd of protesters who formed outside the farm. Carter Evans has the latest. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., questions witnesses during a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing on Feb. 12, 2025, on Capitol Hill. Rod Lamkey/AP hide caption toggle caption Rod Lamkey/AP The new top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform committee is ready for a fight. “I think I got elected because I am aggressive,” Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said in an interview. “I think that we’ve got to be fighters in this moment.” In June, House Democrats picked Garcia, a sophomore congressman, over several more senior colleagues to lead their party on the committee. At 47, the California…

Washington — Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official who previously served as President Trump’s criminal defense attorney, declined to rule out the possibility of the president running for a third term and did not denounce the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a questionnaire submitted to a Senate panel considering his nomination for a lifetime appointment as a federal judge.The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote next week on whether to advance Bove’s nomination to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. CBS News obtained the 165-page questionnaire that Bove submitted to senators…

In his weekly newsletter, Elie Mystal lambastes the Republicans’ shameful priorities—and their deadly consequences. Ad Policy This is a preview of Nation Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal’s new weekly newsletter. Click here to receive this newsletter in your inbox each Friday. The death toll from the flooding in Texas has climbed to at least 120 people as of this writing. That number includes at least 36 children who had been campers at Camp Mystic, in Kerr County, Texas, which we now know was built on a dangerous flood plain. We also know that local officials were well aware of the dangers, and did nothing. Reports…

A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al Qaeda’s 2001 attacks.The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles. It signals there will be no quick end to the long struggle by the U.S. military and successive administrations to bring to justice the man charged with planning one of the…

“The Blue Oak R.V. Park, it was amazing. It’s on the Guadalupe River. It’s what most Texans hope to do at some time in their life — most Texans I know. My parents came down. I’ve been pushing them to come down for a little while, just to get a little vacation. I rented them a cabin next door to us. They were coming down just to celebrate July 4 weekend. Do some fishing, do some barbecuing, and — this is all unrecognizable. This is all it. She woke up to the screaming.” “The water was moving so fast, so…

Washington — President Trump and first lady Melania Trump landed in Central Texas on Friday to survey the devastation wrought by last week’s deadly flooding, as first responders and family members continue their search for the missing. The Trumps will speak with local officials and first responders in Kerrville, Texas, as the death toll stands at 121, according to local law enforcement and Gov. Greg Abbott. More than 170 people are still missing after flash floods consumed the region in the early morning of July 4. Drones, rescue teams and volunteers are combing through debris, hoping to find answers for the…

The U.S. Department of State sign in Washington, D.C. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images The State Department is cutting its Washington-based staff by about 15% in what officials are calling the largest overhaul of the agency in decades. Some employees have already taken early retirement, while hundreds more received layoff notices Friday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading the overhaul, eliminating 132 offices he’s described as part of a “bloated bureaucracy.” His staff rewrote key personnel rules to allow the department to fire foreign service and civil service officials in…