Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday night that an agreement to keep the government funded and prevent a government shutdown has been reached. “We have an agreement on the C.R. — the continuing resolution — to prevent a government shutdown, and we should be voting on that tomorrow morning,” …

A Florida girl who was allegedly abducted by her father in 2007 when she was 6 years old was reunited with her mother at the U.S.-Texas border, police said Monday. The girl’s mother, Angelica Vences-Salgado, said she received a message on social media from a woman in Mexico claiming to …

The U.S. is safer today than it was 20 years ago, but it’s not out of the woods, Condoleezza Rice said on the eve of the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.  “We are safer than we were on September 11, 2001, but we’re not yet safe,” Rice told “CBS …

President Biden will travel to Queens, New York, and Manville, New Jersey, next week to survey storm damage from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, the White House said Saturday. He will make the trip on Tuesday, days after visiting Louisiana, which was also battered by Ida.  At least 49 storm-related …

A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, long out of public view, is being paired with the iconic Tiffany diamond in a new advertising campaign that features singer Beyoncé and her rapper husband Jay-Z.  “As part of a private collection from its creation until now, this campaign marks the work-of-art’s first public …

Las Vegas — In a court ruling with potentially broad implications for U.S. immigration cases, a federal judge in Nevada found that a criminal law that dates to 1929 and makes it a felony for a person who has been deported to return to the United States is unconstitutional. U.S. …

In her first public statement since accusing Governor Andrew Cuomo of groping, the governor’s aide told “CBS This Morning” and the Times Union that “What he did to me was a crime. He broke the law.”  The woman, who has not been identified, is one of 11 accusing Cuomo of …

Senate Democrats are lambasting the FBI and demanding answers after learning the bureau had received 4,500 tips about then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh that it had forwarded to the White House Counsel’s Office.  According to a June 30 letter sent by FBI Assistant Director Jill Tyson to Democratic senators, the …

On this week’s “Face the Nation,” moderated by John Dickerson: Ken McClure — Springfield Missouri Mayor  Dr. Scott Gottlieb  — Former FDA commissioner Admiral Mike Mullen — Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff  Jill Schlesinger — CBS News business analystChris Krebs — Former CISA director David Becker — …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has agreed to stop blocking constituents from following his personal Twitter account after a federal lawsuit argued the attorney general violated the First Amendment rights of Texans when he banned them from viewing his tweets, according to a federal court filing in Austin.  In April, …