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President Trump takes questions from reporters at the White House on August 8, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America President Trump said on Monday that he plans to use a Friday summit in Alaska to gauge whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to end his war on Ukraine — and said he’d been disappointed in the past in Putin’s actions. “This is really a feel-out meeting, a little bit,” Trump told reporters, predicting he would know “probably in the first two minutes” whether a deal would be possible. “I may…

Tropical Storm Erin formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on Monday, forecasters said. The storm could strengthen to become the Atlantic’s first hurricane of the season.The storm formed just west of the Cabo Verde islands off the western coast of Africa, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Erin was expected to move west. Early models showed that the storm was expected to strengthen into a major hurricane by the time it nears the Caribbean islands toward the end of the week. It doesn’t pose an immediate threat to the U.S.Maps show Tropical Storm Erin’s projected path A map…

Activism / August 11, 2025 Ending his extortion racket will demand not only courageous institutions—it will take the political opposition of us all. Ad Policy A woman speaks in a mega-phone while demonstrators holding a Trump balloon march front the Los Angeles City Hall to the Edward R. Roybal Federal and Detention Center building on August 2, 2025.(Apu Gomes / Getty Images) “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” So says Vito Corleone, played by Marlon Brando, in The Godfather. But it might also serve as the motto for Donald Trump’s approach to American civil society. The self-proclaimed…

U.S. chipmakers Nvidia and AMD will pay the U.S. government 15% of revenue generated by sales of their AI chips in China, a White House official confirmed to CBS News. The Financial Times on Sunday reported that the agreement between the tech giants and the U.S. government was reached as a condition for granting export licenses for China, which were provided last week. A U.S. official confirmed the “broad strokes” of the report to CBS.The arrangement, with companies providing a stream of revenue in exchange for export licenses, is highly unusual as corporations typically do not pay the federal government a share…

Washington — President Trump on Monday announced he has taken control of local law enforcement in Washington, D.C., and will deploy members of the National Guard to the city as part of a push to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital.”I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference at the White House. “This is liberation day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back.”Flanked by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,…

This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. New York State Sex Offender Registry/AP hide caption toggle caption New York State Sex Offender Registry/AP A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request to release grand jury transcripts from Justice Department investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell. The department asked the court last month to unseal the grand jury transcripts, which are generally secret, saying there was “abundant public interest” in the case. The unusual request was part of the administration’s effort…

The following is the transcript of an interview with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Aug. 10, 2025.MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, who joins us from The Hague in the Netherlands. Welcome back to Face The Nation.NATO SECRETARY GENERAL MARK RUTTE: Margaret, it’s good to be back on the show. Good morning.MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning. Well, Mr. Secretary General, big picture here; is Russia’s Vladimir Putin still a direct threat to the Western alliance, or is he showing some signs of dropping his aggression? SECRETARY GENERAL…

Washington — Just over a year ago, federal judges, defenders and a group of lawyers who represent criminal indigent defendants gathered at the U.S. courthouse in Baltimore to hear federal Judge Myron Thompson give an address.Thompson, who sits on the district court in Alabama, and the others were there to commemorate the 60th anniversary of passage of the Criminal Justice Act, which ensures defendants who are financially unable to obtain adequate representation in federal criminal cases are provided counsel.Signed into law on Aug. 20, 2024, the Criminal Justice Act, or CJA, allows for the appointment of private lawyers to represent…

Tom Torres has worked as a mechanic at the Kraft Heinz plant in Holland, Mich., for 13 years. He says Trump’s immigration policies have forced out hardworking employees at the plant. Andrea Hsu/NPR hide caption toggle caption Andrea Hsu/NPR LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jaelin Carpenter was stressed. Four people on her team of 26 at GE Appliances had learned that their immigration status had changed. Under former President Biden, they’d been allowed to stay and work in the U.S. for two years, protected by a program set up to help people fleeing humanitarian crises back home. But the Trump administration abruptly…

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Sunday that President Trump will be “testing” Russian President Vladimir Putin in their landmark face-to-face meeting set for Friday, as world leaders push for a ceasefire deal in Russia’s war with Ukraine.”On Friday, it is important to see how serious Putin is, and the only one who can do that is President Trump,” Rutte said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”Mr. Trump announced the “highly anticipated” summit with Putin in a post on Truth Social late last week, saying the leaders are set to meet Friday in Alaska. The U.S. president had expressed frustration with…