New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced an initiative that would give the city more leeway to involuntarily hospitalize severely mentally ill people on the city’s subways and streets, even if they do not appear to pose an immediate danger to others. “My administration is determined to do more …
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Manhattan prosecutors called their last witness Monday in the Trump Organization’s criminal trial. During three weeks of testimony, they portrayed a company for which many of the top executives not named Trump allegedly devised a series of schemes to avoid taxes on income and luxury benefits. Two Trump Organization companies …
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A Colorado county clerk accused of allowing an unauthorized person to break into her county’s election system in search of proof of the conspiracy theories spun by former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges in the case on Wednesday. Tina Peters entered her plea in Grand Junction …
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As President Biden and Democrats running in the midterm elections are planning to spend the next several weeks on the road promoting passage of the their climate, health care and tax legislation, several national political groups are making plans to pour millions of dollars into advertising to help boost the …
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Washington — Ending his most recent COVID-19 isolation, President Biden on Sunday left the White House for the first time since becoming infected with the coronavirus last month and headed to a reunion with first lady Jill Biden in their home state of Delaware. The president had tested negative Saturday, …
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Washington — A Washington, D.C., man who was accused of participating in a multi-year scheme to pose as a federal agent pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from the ruse and has agreed to cooperate with the government’s investigation, the Justice Department announced. Arian Taherzadeh, 40, admitted to creating a …
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Former Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation, a $25,000 fine and community service for lying to federal authorities about an illegal campaign contribution, on the same day that voters in his district were deciding on his replacement in a special election. …
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The Supreme Court seems poised to take on a new elections case being pressed by Republicans that could increase the power of state lawmakers over races for Congress and the presidency, as well as redistricting, and cut state courts out of the equation. The issue has arisen repeatedly in cases …
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Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, will join the Biden administration, a White House official confirmed to CBS News. She is set to replace Cedric Richmond as the director of the Office of Public Engagement. Richmond resigned from the position in May. It was not immediately clear when Lance …
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Washington — President Biden sat down with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday for an interview during which he said he has limited taking unilateral action on gun control because he does not want to mirror his predecessor’s “abuse of the Constitution and constitutional authority.” Kimmel kicked off the 23-minute-long …
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