Politics

J.D. Vance, Tucker Carlson, and the Price of Friendship

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Judge extends block on Postal Service's new Trump-backed mail-in ballot requirements

Updated on: September 4, 2026 / 6:37 PM EDT / CBS News

DOJ charges illegal voters from three states in 2022 and 2024 elections

The Department of Justice on Friday announced charges against five individuals for illegally voting or helping someone illegally register to vote in the 2022 and 2024 elections in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.

Judge lets Pentagon move forward with firing Stars and Stripes journalists

Updated on: September 4, 2026 / 6:27 PM EDT / CBS News

Senior aides to U.K.'s Nigel Farage step down in donation scandal where reporter posed as wealthy American's son

Updated on: September 4, 2026 / 9:07 PM EDT / CBS News

Democrats prepare counterprogramming blitz for Trump's midterm convention

Democrats are gearing up to crash the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas next week, sending their top messengers to highlight the affordability crisis and their own agenda for 2026.

A look inside the courtroom during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial

The weeks-long murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother accused of fatally strangling her three children, has ended in a mistrial. As the public now waits for what will happen next, the Guardian's breaking news reporter Maya Yang looks at some of what happened in court during 'America's saddest murder trial'

Democrats demand that DHS comply with inquiry into death of Rohingya refugee abandoned by border agents

Lawmakers say agency must cooperate with investigation into death of nearly blind refugee in Buffalo

Trump says he's followed the Lindsay Clancy case in first comments on trial: "She did a horrible, horrible thing"

September 4, 2026 / 4:54 PM EDT / CBS News

The Great Appeaser

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Supreme Court sides with Republicans in fight over broadcast ad rates

Updated on: September 4, 2026 / 6:44 PM EDT / CBS News

Judge weighs how to dismiss Reflecting Pool vandalism charge against Olympian

President Trump has said damage to the Reflecting Pool was due to vandalism, not to a flawed installation of a new liner as prosecutors say.