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Washington — Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will kick off the confirmation process in the Senate this week with meetings with leaders from both parties, as well as the chairman and top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, the White House said. Jackson, who President Biden announced as his …

President Biden has begun interviewing candidates to succeed Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, according to a source familiar with the process. During his presidential campaign, Mr. Biden vowed to select an African American woman to serve on the high court, arguing such a nomination is long overdue. Top names said to be under …

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh has spoken to both Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association about contract negotiations as a lockout continues. Walsh told CBS News he stands ready to facilitate discussions.  “I have spoken to both the MLBPA and MLB about the ongoing contract negotiations and encourage both …

A Texas man has been charged with federal firearms crimes after allegedly having sold a pistol to Malik Faisal Akram, who later used the gun to kidnap hostages in a Texas synagogue earlier this month, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas announced Wednesday. Henry “Michael” Williams …

For the 16th time in the past year, U.S. Capitol Police have arrested someone for illegally carrying a gun on or near U.S. Capitol grounds. The mounting arrests have all occurred in the months after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, in which several defendants in the mob were …

The Biden administration late Thursday asked the Supreme Court to block lower court orders that are keeping President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for health care workers from going into effect in about half of the states. The administration asked the justices to allow the “urgently needed health and safety measure …

The mother of abducted American journalist Austin Tice is meeting with national security adviser Jake Sullivan Friday, a person familiar with the meeting told CBS News. Debra Tice claims President Biden has so far been unwilling to meet with her.  Austin Tice, now 40, was abducted in Syria in 2012. …

Oklahoma is suing the Biden administration over its federal coronavirus vaccine mandate for federal employees and the National Guard, the state’s Republican attorney general announced Thursday.  “Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate ensures that many Oklahoma National Guard members will simply quit instead of getting a vaccine, a situation that will irreparably …

A U.S. airstrike in Syria killed a senior leader of al Qaeda Friday, according to U.S. Central Command.  The strike — carried out by an MQ-9 aircraft — took out Abdul Hamid al-Matar, according to a U.S. Central Command spokesman Army Major John Rigsbee.  “The removal of this al Qaeda …

As the race for Virginia governor tightens, the state’s school board meetings have become a political battleground, and the center of the closing argument by Republicans. Huyen MacMichael, a mother in the Virginia exurb of Loudoun County, says the school board meetings there have grown toxic since the pandemic, with …