When asked about his run for reelection as governor, Gov. Wes Moore said he had no plans to run for president of the United States.

“I’m excited about my job,” Moore said. “I can say that with very real deal of comfort.”

In a CBS News’ “Things That Matter” town hall that aired Sunday, Moore covered the rumors of a 2028 ...Read more

Former President Barack Obama said in a podcast interview Saturday that aliens are real, but they aren’t at Nevada’s Area 51.

During an appearance on YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen’s show, Obama said he hadn’t seen extraterrestrials but that they existed.

“They’re not being kept in Area 51, there’s no underground facility, unless ...Read more

An estimated 7,700 gallons of jet fuel spilled into the James River on Friday afternoon near Newport News Shipbuilding, according to officials.

The spill happened during a refueling operation involving the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, which is nearing completion at the shipyard, according to a release from the city of Newport News.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he proposed terms for any deescalation deal with Iran during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump last week.

According to the terms, Iran shouldn’t possess enriched material or nuclear enrichment capabilities, Netanyahu told a Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations ...Read more

A Kentucky teachers’ union and public education groups on Sunday raised alarms about a GOP House budget proposal, with one group warning it would cause teachers and bus drivers to leave their jobs..

The Fayette County Education Association and the public schools advocacy group Protect Our Schools posted statements in opposition to the ...Read more

Community patrols that monitor San Diego County neighborhoods for immigration enforcement activity have seen big jumps in new members and trainees in recent months — part of a larger movement of San Diegans pushing back against immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.

Community networks dedicated to monitoring federal ...Read more

Wa Chi Minh Vang spent nine years in jail in Vietnam, where he ran afoul of government operatives for preaching Christianity within the country’s tight-knit Hmong community. His father, he said, died in jail, but Wa Chi Minh Vang never stopped advocating for greater religious freedom through his “Hmong United for Justice” YouTube channel, ...Read more

Russia’s Black Sea coastal region came under heavy drone attack overnight, with damage reported to infrastructure at the Taman seaport and fuel tanks.

Air defenses battled to repel Ukrainian UAVs throughout the night in the assault on the Krasnodar region of southern Russia, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said in a Telegram post early Sunday.

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Even after Gov. Wes Moore signs a bill banning official agreements between local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement across Maryland, as he’s expected to do, many local sheriffs say they will continue to work with ICE in whatever informal, legal capacity they can.

“No politician or legislative body is going to tell ...Read more

Two hundred and fifty years ago in Pennsylvania, the Declaration of Independence was written and signed in cursive.

Now, schools across the commonwealth are mandated to teach that style of handwriting.

Gov. Josh Shapiro signed into law this week a bipartisan measure that requires schools to teach K-12 students to write in cursive. While many ...Read more

A man from the Philippines awaiting the result of a deportation order has been released from Tacoma’s Northwest ICE Processing Center following a federal court order that called the man’s detention unconstitutionally “punitive.”

U.S. District Judge Tana Lin granted the release requested in Greggy Sorio’s habeas corpus petition Friday,...Read more

Minneapolis Public Schools faces a budget deficit in 2026-27 that is significantly deeper than initially forecast — and is relying on new and familiar faces to help it dig out of the hole.

Ryan Strack, the district’s senior executive officer, took the lead in presenting its latest budget update last week, and the school system has hired an ...Read more

Jennifer Jones was sitting in Montrose Municipal Court in early January when she noticed something that didn’t seem right.

She witnessed a man in his 60s with multiple trespassing and camping charges receive a 10-day jail sentence. This individual, though, did not have an attorney — a right afforded under the Constitution to anyone facing ...Read more

President Donald Trump said founding member countries of his Board of Peace have pledged more than $5 billion toward humanitarian efforts and reconstruction in Gaza.

Board members are due to meet Feb. 19 in Washington to confirm pledges and commit “thousands of personnel” to a stabilization force to help maintain security in Gaza, Trump ...Read more

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is better known for her strong progressive stances than her foreign policy views over the course of her seven years in Congress. An appearance at this weekend’s Munich Security Conference suggested a shift in approach and fueled more speculation of a presidential run in 2028.

Ocasio-Cortez, who was ...Read more

Claudia Sheinbaum’s decision to halt oil shipments to Cuba is testing her standing within Mexico’s ruling party just over a year into her presidency, even as it staves off confrontation with Donald Trump.

Mexico’s political left has seen Cuba as a source of inspiration ever since Fidel Castro and Che Guevara hatched the 1959 revolution in...Read more

As scores of federal immigration agents leave the state and Operation Metro Surge winds down, Minnesotans are taking stock of what has happened and what comes next.

On Sunday morning’s “Face the Nation” on CBS, White House border czar Tom Homan said more than 1,000 federal officers have already left the state. And hundreds more are ...Read more