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Meta faces ‘astronomical’ consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment in California

Meta faces a federal trial over child safety claims that could bring major financial penalties and changes to Facebook and Instagram.

Flock cameras provide ICE with new deportation tool

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NATO's Nightmare

The U.S. and Europe have no clear plan for a joint attack from Russia and China.

Florida trial underway in Microsoft executive's murder allegedly hatched by his ex-wife and her husband

Updated on: August 17, 2026 / 5:25 PM EDT / CBS/AP

U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating top Trump aide Susie Wiles

Updated on: August 17, 2026 / 10:19 AM EDT / CBS News

The DOJ Case Against the Southern Poverty Law Center

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Trump's tough-guy image has been undone by his own actions

The president was forced to hide in a catering truck amid the Iran war, in an encapsulation of the conflict’s failures

Why Lindsay Clancy’s Insanity Defense Might Fail

A jury will soon decide whether the evident suffering that moved her to violence also mitigates it.

The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

Why do the polls keep misfiring?

Francesca Hong was riding high. The last five polls in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial contest had her winning by as many as 22 percentage points. She lost narrowly, and so did the pollsters.

Homeland Security investigated Minnesota labor unions for antifa ties

Undercover federal agents, posing as anti-deportation activists, spied on prominent labor unions as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s investigation into what prosecutors say was a well-funded and highly organized conspiracy among antifa militants in Minnesota to methodically impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

The Supreme Court Will Not Survive Another Democratic Trifecta

The continued existence of the Supreme Court is safe as long as there is a Republican in the White House. But as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) reminded us this week, every vote for a Democrat in the House and Senate this year will help lay the groundwork for the institution’s eventual eradication should Democrats ever regain control of the presidency, the House, and the Senate.