Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine faced bipartisan questioning on Capitol Hill about the war in Iran on Tuesday. The Trump administration is seeking $1.5 trillion for defense in the 2027 budget proposal, a starting point for negotiations. Hegseth called it “admittedly a historic budget” in … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A big-city Democratic mayor who grabbed national attention last year as he was arrested during an anti-ICE protest outside a federal immigration detention center cruised to re-election on Tuesday. Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, easily topped 50% of the vote in Tuesday’s election as he … Read more
Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, faces a 10-year prison sentence for pleading guilty to acting as a covert agent for China. CBS News Los Angeles’ Tina Patel has more. Source link
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces calls for resignation – CBS News Watch CBS News British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing calls from lawmakers for his resignation after devastating local election losses for the Labour Party. Chris Livesay reports. Source link
WASHINGTON — Vulnerable Rep. Jen Kiggans, a Virginia Republican, is under fire after she agreed with a radio show host who said that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress — should get his “cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.” Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free … Read more
Keir Starmer faces calls to resign after disappointing election results – CBS News Watch CBS News British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing calls to resign following the most recent elections. CBS News’ Chris Livesay reports. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FBI Director Kash Patel is again set to testify before the Senate, this time in defense of a budget increase for his agency amid scrutiny of his performance atop the nation’s federal law enforcement arm. Patel, along with the heads of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Pentagon’s massive $1.5 trillion budget request will face its first test Tuesday as House lawmakers quiz Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth about the proposal in a high-stakes hearing. Democrats and some Republicans have raised concerns about the unprecedented size of the request, which would increase … Read more
In interviews, 10 current and former teachers from New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and California described concerns about lost time and administrative demands. Some said i-Ready quizzes students on material they haven’t learned, such as asking a kindergartner “98 minus 17,” while some students said it repeats questions from year to year, and they have … Read more
Prime Minister Keir Starmer loses first member of his government as he faces pressure to step down Source link