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2026-11-04 · CBS News · Politics

The biggest races Democrats won in the midterms

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2026-09-23 · CBS News · Politics

Judge skeptical of Trump's White House ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico

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2026-09-22 · CBS News · Politics

What is the White House press pool and how does it work?

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2026-10-15 · CBS News · Politics

Trump says execution of Fort Hood shooter won't be streamed

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2026-11-04 · CBS News · Politics

Talarico says victory sends message to Musk: "Texas is not for sale"

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2026-11-04 · CBS News · Politics

Trump touts White House ballroom after GOP midterm losses

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2026-09-04 · CBS News

🔮 The decision could be a boon for national Republican groups, which have amassed bigger war chests than their Democratic counterparts and can flood the airwaves with more ads in support of GOP candidates. assertive

2026-09-04 · CBS News

🔮 "The Final Rule's new requirements would be an extraordinary amount of work for local officials at any time," she wrote. assertive

2026-09-15 · CBS News

🔮 But he found that applying the rule in the November midterms "would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections." assertive

2026-09-22 · CBS News

🔮 The first executive order, signed last year, would in order to register to vote. assertive

2026-09-22 · CBS News

🔮 Mr. Trump announced Friday that he would be to the White House, citing what he said was their "constant 'reporting' FAKE NEWS!'" assertive

2026-09-22 · CBS News

🔮 In a filing, her lawyers claimed that the couple is attempting to halt lifesaving care for the child and warned that without relief, West will be denied the right to protect the baby's life. assertive

2026-09-23 · CBS News

🔮 "I don't know how a letter that they got after the pass was revoked could provide them with the kind of standards that they would have to conform their conduct to. assertive

2026-09-25 · CBS News

🔮 The high court said that the district court's decision blocking use of the expanded database "inhibits the Federal Government's efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper administration of the midterm elections." Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. The system is part of President Trump's government-wide push to find evidence of widespread voting by noncitizens in federal elections, which has largely been debunked and shown to be very rare. assertive

2026-09-25 · CBS News

🔮 In an unsigned opinion with no noted dissents, the Supreme Court said "the election is not merely upcoming; it has already started," and added that "at this late date, ordering reversion to the 2025 map in the midst of an ongoing election would usher in electoral chaos." The lower courts, the Supreme Court said, "should not enjoin or otherwise prohibit the use of the 2022 map in the 2026 congressional election in Missouri. assertive

2026-09-29 · CBS News

🔮 - Former special counsel Jack Smith will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into his probes of President Trump. assertive

2026-09-29 · CBS News

🔮 Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have denied the government's request for emergency relief. assertive

2026-09-30 · CBS News

🔮 "We have a right, just like every litigant in court, to have a judge that will be fair and impartial," Blanche said. assertive

2026-10-04 · CBS News

🔮 When the Supreme Court returns to the bench Monday for the first time since late June, it will kick off its new term with a , to hold fossil-fuel producers accountable for the impacts of global climate change. mixed

2026-10-04 · CBS News

🔮 The start of the Supreme Court's new term is quickly approaching, with cases involving climate change, President Trump's immigration policies and the Second Amendment among the most high-profile disputes the justices will hear in the coming months. assertive

2026-10-05 · CBS News

🔮 The rare interview came ahead of the release of Alito's first book, "So Ordered: An Originalist's View of the Constitution, the Court and Our Country," a collection of speeches that will be released Tuesday. assertive

2026-10-05 · CBS News

🔮 That outcome would mean the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court would stand, allowing Boulder's case to proceed. assertive

2026-10-08 · CBS News

🔮 The Justice Department and lawyers for CNN, MS NOW and Politico will be back in court Thursday as the legal battle continues over President Trump's decision to ban reporters from the three news outlets from the White House over what he said is their negative coverage of his administration. assertive

2026-10-15 · CBS News

🔮 President Trump said Thursday that the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will not be streamed, a decision that comes after his administration faced significant backlash over the Pentagon's initial plan to allow the American people to watch Hasan's death by firing squad. assertive

2026-10-15 · CBS News

🔮 Hoyt argued that because the president appoints members of the Kennedy Center's board and a related Advisory Committee on the Arts, he must "familiarize himself" with the institution's management, operations, fundraising efforts and planned activities. "I believe that, without the protection of the presidential communications privilege over the communications described above, presidential advisors and their staff members would be chilled from gathering relevant information, exploring alternatives, and providing fully informed recommendations regarding the performance of the President's duties," the White House lawyer wrote in a declaration. mixed

2026-10-16 · CBS News

🔮 Vance with "CBS Evening News" anchor Tony Dokoupil for a one-hour town hall in Michigan, which will air Saturday. assertive

2026-10-21 · CBS News

🔮 The agency has said that the proposed border wall will not cut through Big Bend National Park, but other infrastructure would, including patrol roads, detection technology and roughly 17 miles of vehicle barriers. assertive

2026-10-26 · CBS News

🔮 A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed the Justice Department's effort to force California election officials to set aside thousands of ballots that the Trump administration claims may have been cast by alleged noncitizens. mixed

2026-10-28 · CBS News

🔮 The Department of the Interior is working on a plan to close East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C., by Nov. 15 after President Trump twice said the historic course will temporarily shutter for a redesign next month, senior Justice Department officials said Wednesday. assertive

2026-10-29 · CBS News

🔮 The decision from U.S. District Judge David Carter is the latest setback for the Trump administration in its efforts to exert more federal control over election administration just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, when voters will decide which party controls the House and Senate. assertive

2026-10-29 · CBS News

🔮 Steve Hobbs, the Washington secretary of state, was responding to a letter from two federal prosecutors in the state to be set aside and not counted until their citizenship status could be verified. mixed

2026-10-30 · CBS News

🔮 A federal judge on Friday said she is opening an inquiry into whether government officials and lawyers made misrepresentations to the court and violated ethics rules during proceedings over President Trump's plans to renovate a historic in Washington, D.C.U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said during a hearing she will conduct the examination herself, but will be assisted by a special master, a neutral arbiter, to determine whether officials and lawyers at the Departments of Justice and Interior engaged in misconduct. The judge said she will examine several issues, including whether a notice filed to her court about impending at East Potomac Golf Links was done in bad faith. assertive

2026-11-02 · CBS News

🔮 Since no candidate reached 51 votes in the first round, Candidate D — the one with the fewest votes — would be eliminated in the second round of counting. assertive

2026-11-02 · CBS News

🔮 But in the request to the Supreme Court, Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the government is seeking a "modest remedy" that will ensure any ballots cast by people who are not American citizens do not "debase or dilute valid votes. assertive

2026-11-02 · CBS News

🔮 The Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to hear a dispute over religious rights when it weighs whether from its universal preschool program over their refusal to enroll students from families that don't adhere to the church's teachings on marriage and sex. assertive

2026-11-02 · CBS News

🔮 for a temporary restraining order that would've required ballots received from those on the list to be segregated and said the Trump administration's process for identifying the alleged noncitizens was "rife with uncertainty and errors. assertive

2026-11-03 · CBS News

🔮 The state, however, denied the request for an accommodation and said the Catholic schools could not "discriminate against children or families in violation of state statute." assertive

2026-11-04 · CBS News

🔮 Also in Texas, Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa is projected to , a Republican, making her the first Democrat to win the governor's mansion in more than 30 years. assertive

2026-11-04 · CBS News

🔮 CBS News projects Democrats will take control of both chambers when the new Congress convenes in January, with wide margins in each. assertive

2026-11-04 · CBS News

🔮 Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that he believes Republicans of Congress because of voters' opposition to the war in Iran and suggested that the conflict may not have been worth the cost of losing the GOP's hold on the Senate. assertive

2026-11-04 · CBS News

🔮 The president assembled reporters and construction workers in the unfinished massive new structure, where the building's final steel beam was set to be hoisted into the ceiling. assertive