Judge says alleged D.C. pipe bomber Brian Cole Jr. isn’t covered by Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons

A federal judge rejected a motion to dismiss the criminal charges against the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, finding that President Trump’s sweeping pardons of the rioters were “expressly limited” to those who … Read more

Trump claims he isn’t involved in his personal finances after crypto disclosure

President Trump claimed Wednesday he is not involved in his personal financial dealings. Disclosure forms released Tuesday revealed he made more than a billion dollars in cryptocurrency ventures last year. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang reports. Source link

Bill Barr says Todd Blanche isn’t ‘a toady,’ urges senate to confirm Trump’s AG pick

AG Blanche slams Pritzker for refusing help as Chicago crime surges Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche criticizes Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker for declining federal assistance to combat soaring Chicago gun violence, despite 37 shootings occurring in a span of two days. Blanche details significant crime reductions in Washington, D.C. after federal intervention. He also highlights … Read more

Some promotional Polymarket content made by online creators isn’t real, WSJ reports

Polymarket tells CBS News it is auditing its promotional content in response to a recent investigation by the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper found that the prediction market paid online content creators to produce videos showing them collectively winning a total of $1.9 million, but the Journal says those bets weren’t real. One of the … Read more

Hot chicken is OK, but soda isn’t? Battle over SNAP scrambles red-blue politics.

Move over, left versus right. Welcome, rotisserie chicken versus Coca-Cola. A food fight over restrictions on government nutrition assistance is generating controversies and court battles, all while scrambling traditional political boundary lines.  Legislators across the country, in states both red and blue, have spent the second Trump administration passing unprecedented restrictions and exceptions to the … Read more