Trump-backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will win the Senate primary runoff for the GOP nomination, CBS News projects, unseating longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in a seismic shift for Republicans in the Senate. Paxton will face the Democratic nominee, state Rep. James Talarico, in November. A Democrat has not won a statewide race in Texas…
Iran has agreed in principle to dispose of highly-enriched uranium in negotiations with the U.S., although a deal likely won’t be signed this weekend, a senior Trump administration official said Sunday morning. The official said the U.S. believes Iran’s supreme leader has approved the template for a deal, but a final agreement still needs to…
Washington — Tulsi Gabbard said Friday that she is resigning as the director of national intelligence, stepping aside after her husband was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. In a letter to President Trump, Gabbard said her resignation would be effective June 30. “My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely…
Law enforcement veterans are expressing deep concerns that the Trump Justice Department’s criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan is being systematically stacked with politically motivated personnel who are intent on a partisan indictment. Brennan is the subject of two criminal probes being led by the Miami-area U.S. Attorney’s Office. One is weighing allegations…
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky has faced a barrage of attacks from President Trump heading into Tuesday’s primary against former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, who has the president’s endorsement. But Massie doesn’t appear to be sweating it, even after several of Mr. Trump’s perceived adversaries have suffered primary defeats stemming from the president’s ire…
Washington — Louisianans voted Saturday in the state’s Senate primaries as Sen. Bill Cassidy fights to hold onto his seat. Polls closed at 9 p.m. Eastern time. A handful of Republicans were facing off in a competitive primary to win the GOP nomination as Cassidy — a Republican who has occasionally broken with his…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Thursday accused the United Arab Emirates of playing an active role in the U.S.-Israeli war against his country. “The UAE is an active partner in this aggression, and there is no doubt about it,” Araghchi said in a Telegram post while attending a BRICS summit in India. Araghchi also…
Voters went to the polls in Nebraska and West Virginia on Tuesday, with Democrats vying for the chance to run in an open seat in Nebraska that the party has long been eyeing. Republican Rep. Don Bacon is retiring in January, leaving a seat open in a district that has voted for Democrats in three of…
When President Trump arrives in Beijing aboard Air Force One for a high-stakes summit with President Xi Jinping, the top issue on the Chinese leader’s mind won’t be the global impacts from the Iran war and bottlenecked Strait of Hormuz. Instead, Xi will be focused on Taiwan, the tiny island democracy in the western Pacific…
Republicans in Alabama approved plans Friday for new primary elections if courts allow a set of GOP-drawn House districts to be used in the midterms, a move that could eliminate one of the state’s two Democratic seats. The legislation, which was passed by lawmakers this week and quickly signed into law by Republican Gov. Kay…
