Politics

Talarico touts endorsement of man who accused Paxton of stealing $1,000 pen

Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico released a new ad on Friday featuring the endorsement of an attorney who claimed Republican candidate Attorney General Ken Paxton stole his $1,000 pen.

Trump asks US supreme court to allow construction of White House ballroom

Administration asks justices to keep appeals court decision to halt work on hold while it prepares a full appeal

The New York Times's 'right to kill' story gets the Second Amendment backward

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Israeli military plans to transfer law enforcement in occupied West Bank to police

Palestine’s vice-president calls plan ‘flagrant violation of international law’ and a step towards full Israeli annexation

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to causing UnitedHealthcare CEO’s death in federal case

Plea comes weeks before separate case is scheduled to start in New York, and could throw proceedings into disarray

Democrats turn their DEI strategy toward Muslim voters

The Black Lives Matter summer of 2020 sent the Democratic Party into a diversity, equity, and inclusion tailspin. The party’s full turn toward supporting a Palestinian state has since redirected the DEI strategy toward Muslims.

Does Mangione's guilty plea in federal case jeopardize his state murder trial?

Updated on: August 14, 2026 / 2:56 PM EDT / CBS News

Why Iran is so desperate to assassinate Donald Trump

In his September 2023 address to the United Nations General Assembly, the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned that “the blood of the oppressed will not be forgotten, and the ropes of the guilty will bring them to justice.”

Darline Graham Nordone endorsed by ex-rival in SC Senate runoff

Interim Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) notched an endorsement Friday ahead of her Aug. 25 primary runoff from Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC), a former rival who placed third in this week’s special Republican primary.

The Guardian view on Nigel Farage: Clacton cannot acquit him

Reform won a contrived byelection, but scrutiny continues – while the party increasingly attacks the watchdogs and journalists asking awkward questions

Trump's spying on left-wing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover's Cointelpro

The FBI from the 1950s to the 1970s tried to infiltrate and discredit leftist organizations. Trump seems to be repeating that sordid practice

Inside "the Pool": Fugitive arrested in alleged scheme to control cross-border car trade

August 14, 2026 / 1:00 PM EDT / CBS News