Politics

Family visitation partly restored at New Jersey ICE facility after week of protests

Visits were canceled after detainees began hunger strike, which prompted heated protests outside detention center

Zelenskyy alleges Russia is abducting Ukrainian kids and training them to fight

Updated on: May 31, 2026 / 3:24 PM EDT / CBS News

DHS dismisses Sherrill claim she solved Delaney Hall problems: 'We did not cave'

The Department of Homeland Security poured cold water on Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s (D-NJ) claims that the department caved to her demands to restore family visitation at the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in New Jersey.

Zelenskyy says "more pressure" is needed to get Putin to table to negotiate peace deal

Washington — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that world leaders need to put "more pressure," including sanctions, on Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring him to the negotiating table as Zelenskyy seeks to end the war that has stretched on for more than four years.

Suspect accused of killing 3 elderly men in Hawaii faces almost a dozen charges, including murder

The suspect accused of killing three elderly men in Hawaii has been charged with murder, along with almost a dozen criminal offenses, authorities announced on Sunday.

Full transcript of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," May 31, 2026

On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan:

Cory Booker has ‘concerns’ with Graham Platner’s Senate bid after leaked texts

US senator says Platner, whose wife says he sent sexually explicit messages to other women, has ‘questions to answer’

Joe Concha says the Republican Party is now the MAGA party

Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said, “This is not the Republican Party, it’s the MAGA party,” arguing that President Donald Trump’s continued success in Republican primaries demonstrates the extent to which the GOP has become aligned with the MAGA movement.

A professor envisioned a legal revolution. It happened, but not how he thought

Canaan has never seemed further away. It was Donald Trump to whom voters granted the power to transform the judiciary, which he did by appointing three judges to the Supreme Court and hundreds more to the courts below it. The conservative legal movement’s decadeslong quest to push the courts to the right, which would have ended in ignominy and failure had Clinton won, culminated in triumph instead.

Democrats Leave DNC's Ken Martin Hanging After Botched 2024 Autopsy

Democrats are apparently in no rush to defend embattled Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin.

Mike Pence says he hopes Trump administration will drop weaponization fund

Updated on: May 31, 2026 / 1:41 PM EDT / CBS News

U.S. military strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific Ocean kills 3 people in fourth attack this week

The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Saturday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the fourth attack this week and putting the total death toll at 205.