The investigation is said to center on whether Ms. Carroll committed perjury in civil lawsuits against Donald J. Trump, whom she accused of sexual assault.E. Jean Carroll leaving court in Manhattan in 2024. Donald J. Trump later lost an appeal of a $5 million verdict against him in the case.
Plus, hunting fish with a bow and arrow. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.President Trump in a cabinet meeting today.
Senator John Cornyn lost to his MAGA-aligned challenger, Ken Paxton, by 28 percentage points. It was a historically poor showing.The breadth of Mr. Cornyn’s loss showed the enduring unpopularity of Republican elected officials in Washington among the most ardent Republican voters.
Senators are angry President Trump turned on a respected former leader whom they consider a loyal Republican. Now Mr. Trump faces resistance from his own embittered ranks.Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, noted in his concession to Ken Paxton on Tuesday that he still had time left in the Sen
Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska is still meeting with constituents long after most G.O.P. members of Congress have concluded it is too politically dangerous to do so.Representative Mike Flood speaking with reporters after his town hall in Norfolk, Neb., on Tuesday. He has committed to continui
Republican leaders in the state have asked the justices to clear the way for a congressional map that a lower court found discriminated against Black voters.The Supreme Court justices are familiar with the longstanding fight over Alabama’s congressional district map.
Few in Lebanon believe that diplomatic efforts to end the wider war will bring peace to their country, as clashes between Israel and Hezbollah intensify in the south.A resident assesses the damage in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday.
President Trump said there would be serious repercussions if Iran and Oman move forward with a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz.President Trump speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday.
The money has become a sticking point in talks, with Iran insisting that meaningful negotiations cannot begin without the funds’ release.A crowd carrying a photo of Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, during a ceremony in Tehran on Sunday. The Iranian government has been pummeled economically b
“I had never, ever seen Joe like that,” the former first lady told CBS News. “Before or since.”Jill Biden, the first lady, and President Biden after the presidential debate in June 2024. She understood he had performed poorly but told him that they had been counted out before.
The former president argued that the Justice Department has a responsibility to protect the privacy of conversations he had with a former ghostwriter.Recordings of conversations former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had with his ghostwriter came into the Justice Department’s possession in 2023.
Santiago Rivera is widely credited with creating the “burnt” cheesecake in the 1980s, though he doesn’t love the spinoffs it has spawned. Decades later, he’s preparing to hand over his kitchen to his children.Santiago Rivera working the counter at his restaurant, La Viña, in San Sebastián, Spain thi
The firm that was given a no-bid contract to fix the troubled landmark is charging 20 percent. The typical profit margin is 6 percent to 12 percent, internal records show.Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the Virginia-based contractor given a no-bid contract to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Poo
The administration is spending at least $67 million worth of fees paid by visitors to national parks on fixing D.C. fountains and the Reflecting Pool.The National Park Service is spending millions in fees paid by visitors to parks across the country, like Yosemite National Park in California, to pay
The motion was particularly significant because it asked the judge overseeing the initial suit against the I.R.S. to examine the terms of the deal.In January, President Trump sued the I.R.S., along with two of his sons and the Trump family business, claiming they were owed at least $10 billion.
The surprising demand to appear at a hearing suggested new concern about the Trump administration’s efforts to repay the full $166 billion owed from illegally imposed tariffs.Rodney S. Scott, the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, has been ordered to appear before the Court of International
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation that tries to stop outside officials from taking ballots or getting involved in ballot processing.Voters casting ballots during the 2024 election in Los Angeles.
The secretary of state visited India to reassure the South Asian giant that it can still rely on the United States. India did not gain much from the visit.Secretary of State Marco Rubio and India’s foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, prepare to sign a memorandum of understanding in New Delhi
The only charge lodged against David Rush is that he inflated his academic credentials and obtained military leave pay worth tens of thousands of dollars.The C.I.A. was “unable to locate the gold bars or significant amounts of the foreign currency,” the court papers charged.
Kenneth Iwamasa injected Mr. Perry with the ketamine that killed him. He is the last of five defendants to be sentenced in the case.The actor Matthew Perry was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his home in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2023. His assistant had injected him with at least three shots of ket
Many of those who can’t be vaccinated, including pregnant women and immunocompromised people, are also at high risk of serious complications.
The types of Ebola and hantavirus worrying officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new questions about how to respond.
Seven confirmed cases of the virus have already been reported in Kampala, the capital, but officials say the country has robust disease surveillance.Red Cross workers moving the body of someone who may have died from Ebola, in Kampala, Uganda, on Tuesday.
Sharyn Alfonsi, whose segment on a brutal Salvadoran prison was pulled abruptly in December, said that CBS News and its top editor, Bari Weiss, had let her contract expire.Sharyn Alfonsi, a CBS News journalist, said the expiration of her contract sent “a chilling message to the entire newsroom.”
