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Washington — On the same day that President Trump ordered Saturday’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, a U.S. intelligence agency assessed that Iran could make a nuclear weapon in three to eight months — but there was no indication that it had decided to do so, CBS News has learned.The intelligence summary, issued Saturday for the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, found that Iran could build a nuclear device in months if it did not run into technical or logistical delays, two American intelligence sources familiar with the document told CBS News.But at that time, the summary did not assess…

A social media video from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier shows an aerial view of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the planned site of a new migrant detention facility. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier/X hide caption toggle caption Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier/X Florida officials are turning an airfield in the Everglades into a migrant detention center, nicknaming it “Alligator Alcatraz” due to its proximity to the apex predators. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier proposed the project last week, saying in a video posted to X that, in support of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, Florida Gov.…

Daniel Park, a suspect charged earlier this month in connection with the bombing outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, has died in federal custody, the Bureau of Prisons said Tuesday.The 32-year-old from Seattle was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, according to a statement from the Bureau of Prisons. Responding employees initiated life-saving measures, and emergency medical services transported Park to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, the bureau said.His cause of death wasn’t immediately clear, and the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service have been notified. No employees or other incarcerated individuals…

Portland, Ore.—A few years ago, I showed up to work at Street Roots, a nonprofit street newspaper in Portland, Oregon, where I was the director, and found a man shouting homicidal threats. When our staff called a mental-health crisis line, they were told that the police were on their way.Oh no.The man had filled his pockets with rocks from the Willamette River. “This is all I have,” he chanted over and over again.I was afraid that the police would shoot him if he reached into his pockets. After all, the Portland police—monitored by the Department of Justice since 2012 for…

President Trump on Tuesday heads to a whirlwind NATO summit at the Hague, Netherlands, hours after he announced that Iran and Israel had reached a ceasefire agreement.Several hours after the ceasefire was to take effect, Mr. Trump told reporters as he left for the summit that both Israel and Iran had violated it. Then, after speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the president said Israel would not bomb Iran again, and that “the ceasefire is in effect.”The president hoped to secure during the summit a commitment from NATO allies to spend at least 5% of GDP on defense. But…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated his view that the central bank should keep interest rates steady for now, citing inflation risks from U.S. tariffs. Powell, who made his remarks in prepared testimony Tuesday before the House Committee on Financial Services, has been under pressure from President Trump to cut rates, which would make it cheaper for consumers and businesses to borrow money. At its June 18 meeting, the Fed maintained its benchmark rate in a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, where it’s been parked since December. In his semiannual testimony, Powell cited uncertainty over the impact of the Trump administration’s tariffs, noting that…

Sen. Lisa Murkowski sits for a portrait in NPR’s New York office. Nickolai Hammar/NPR hide caption toggle caption Nickolai Hammar/NPR Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a moderate Republican from Alaska, has a reputation for bucking her party. She sometimes broke away from President Trump on key issues during his first term like the push to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. She detailed some of those moments in her new book, “Far From Home: An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, D.C.” “I am one who when I see something…

Washington — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are meeting Tuesday to elect a new ranking member following the death of Rep. Gerry Connolly last month. Though Democrats are currently in the minority, the new ranking member would be in line to chair the Oversight Committee if Democrats retake the House in 2026, halfway through President Trump’s second term. During Mr. Trump’s first term, the committee led numerous investigations into the Trump administration after Democrats won the House in 2018.Connolly’s death came weeks after the Virginia Democrat announced that he would not seek reelection in 2026 and would be stepping back from his post…

The party that built the New Deal now managers the raw deal. But there’s hope. Ad Policy Bryan Scalia of Enfield, foreground, shouts out while on the picket line with other members of machinist local 1746 picket on day two of the machinist union strike on Tuesday, May 5, 2025, in front of Pratt &Whitney plant on Main Street in East Hartford.(Jim Michaud / Connecticut Post via Getty Images) We’re watching Marines on the streets of LA after Trump’s immigration raids ICE running wild. National Guard mobilizing. Elected officials are getting handcuffed. Worse still, we are sleepwalking into war with…

A federal jury on Monday awarded $500,000 to the widow and estate of a police officer who died by suicide nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of rioters, including a man who scuffled with the officer during the attack.The eight-member jury ordered that man, 69-year-old chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman, to pay $380,000 in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They awarded an additional $60,000 to compensate Jeffrey Smith’s estate for his pain and suffering.The judge…