Trump announces Boeing contract for F-47 fighter jet
President Trump on Friday announced that the U.S. Air Force is moving ahead with a sixth-generation fighter jet known as the F-47, with Boeing winning the contract.
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President Trump on Friday announced that the U.S. Air Force is moving ahead with a sixth-generation fighter jet known as the F-47, with Boeing winning the contract.
A former Trump Tower Chicago board member is suing the Trump Organization, alleging racketeering, wire fraud and retaliation, including having him arrested in the tower's spa facilities.
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans to build more fighter jets a day after the president signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. Trump also denied a report he briefed Elon Musk on top secret war plans.
President Trump has taken aim at the Department of Education, but shutting down the department entirely would require an act of Congress.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is in Romeoville Thursday to discuss attacks by the Trump Administration on Social Security.
A senior official told CBS News that the order does not address federal student loans or Title I, which provide financial assistance to children from low-income families.
In 2021, President Biden lifted the ban on transgender people in the military. Four years later, the Naval Intelligence analyst could be kicked out.
The directive comes as Trump said he would like to reach a deal to gain more control over Iran's nuclear capabilities. It is unclear how the US would respond if Iran fails to enter direct talks about its nuclear program.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration could be closer to a partial ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine after three long years of fighting.
One professor said this JFK assassination files release is "certainly the most useful" of any so far "because of the redactions being removed."
President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke on the phone Wednesday morning, a day after Mr. Trump’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the U.S. seeks to hammer out a ceasefire agreement three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A temporary ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia could be on the horizon, after a lengthy phone call between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but there are conditions. The progress comes as the Trump administration is in multiple battles with the courts, leading to a rare public rebuke by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
"I suspect that we will get a quick decision from the United States Supreme Court on this one," CBS News Chicago legal analyst Irv Miller said.
Officials in Hamas-ruled Gaza say the new Israeli assault has killed more than 400 people, as Israel accuses Hamas of refusing to extend the ceasefire.
Wisconsin voters are casting the first ballots in a pivotal state Supreme Court race that will determine whether liberal or conservative justices control the highest court in the crucial presidential battleground.
A White House spokesperson said President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone Tuesday morning as the U.S. tries to negotiate a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine agreed to a 30-day ceasefire proposal, but Putin said terms need to be discussed.
A federal judge is holding hearing Monday to determine whether the Trump administration violated his order to stop a flight deporting 261 migrants to El Salvador, some with alleged gang ties.
President Donald Trump ignored a court order to block his invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport thousands of immigrants, and claimed Pres. Joe Biden's pre-emptive pardons of the committee that investigated the January 6 insurrection to be "void" because he used an autopen.
The U.S. wants the Iran-backed rebels to stop their attacks on shipping along a vital maritime corridor.
Trump wants to speed up the deportation of undocumented immigrants linked to a violent Venezuelan gang. To do that he plans on using a more-than 200-year-old law.
President Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants linked to a violent Venezuelan gang, but just hours after issuing the order, a federal judge blocked the move, and a legal expert in Chicago said the battle will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court soon.
The president is threatening a 200% retaliatory tariff on alcohol from Europe. If the EU doesn't remove the one on American whiskey, wine sellers are finding it hard to swallow.
This threat was a response to the EU's 50% tariffs on American whiskey, which are set to go into effect next month.
A federal judge had ordered the Trump administration to immediately rehire tens of thousands of employees at federal agencies, after they were fired last month as part of the administration’s effort to shrink the federal workforce.
Nearly 100 protesters were arrested after staging a sit-in at Trump Tower in New York City to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian activist arrested by ICE agents over the weekend.
