FLASH: Nancy Pelosi, former House speaker, to retire from Congress after this term www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-p...

THE DAY AHEAD: Big deadline in James Comey case. …One day after judge blasted prosecutors about case, saying there appears to be an “indict first; investigate second” mentality youtube.com/shorts/k8E3u...

43 days later, Adelita Grijalva has still not been sworn-in In the meantime, constituents looking to the US House website for information to get assistance..... see this message instead =====>

BREAKING: Jury is deliberating in the Sean Dunn criminal case, the so-called "salami sandwich" throwing case

ALERT: DC federal jury gets the case of DC "sandwich thrower" defendant Sean Dunn, a touchstone case amid the Trump clampdown in DC

ALERT: Closing arguments begin shortly in “sandwich guy” trial And yes…. It *is* a crowded court My latest ====> youtube.com/shorts/3LxWY...

ALERT: Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) predicts GOP "double-down" on redistricting after Election Night shellacking for GOP youtu.be/r40vywn-qH8

Looking through the Democrats big wins last night... Take a very close look at Nelson County, Virginia From my conversation with former US Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) ===> youtu.be/a2fuQqaMjGQ

"Thank you for your attention to this matter" Democratic leaders ask Trump for meeting to end shutdown New letter ===>

THE DAY AHEAD: Trial resumes this morning in a packed courtroom. After testimony about: Mustard, onion, stains and …. a kevlar vest youtube.com/shorts/Zj-qA...

New enterprise reports for you … post overnight. You can get alerts here: youtube.com/source/9qJzX...

ALERT: Group of Jan 6 defense lawyers sued for copyright infringement and accused of piracy in their defense filings Breaking video: youtube.com/shorts/9qJzX... More: www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-d...

ALERT: Group of Jan 6 defense lawyers sued for copyright infringement and accused of piracy in their defense filings Breaking video: youtube.com/shorts/9qJzX... More: www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-d...

THE DAY AHEAD: Popularity collapses for the old proverb “May you live in interesting times” The expanded damage of the government shutdown Exclusive for you here ===> youtube.com/shorts/vXqqZ...

"I don't know who he is" Trump on Binance cryptocurrency tycoon he pardoned More background via @cbsnews www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-b...

Attorney General Pam Bondi has submitted this argument in federal court in Virginia, to sustain the criminal case against Letitia James James argued the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed. Bondi says this =====> storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Amid a staggering and marathon government shutdown…. Very telling (and thoughtful) gesture by public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland ===>

Justice Dept has found another attorney to join US Atty Lindsey Halligan in the criminal case against Letitia James It's Henry C. Whitaker, an attorney at Main Justice in DC, who is listed a counselor to Pam Bondi

THE DAY AHEAD: Trial begins in….. salami sandwich-throwing case youtube.com/shorts/DrvE-...

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), vice-chair of Senate Intelligence Committee, tells Face the Nation that the shutdown won't end until Trump gets involved in brokering a deal "My Republican colleagues can't move on anything without a Trump sign-off"

Jeffrey Epstein cultivated celebrity relationships for years. Many continued until his 2019 arrest for sex trafficking, documents show www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

Rep. Nancy Mace cursed and berated Charleston airport police over escort, incident report says www.cbsnews.com/news/rep-nan...

ALERT: Latest on FBI probe in Michigan From our reporters’ notebooks youtube.com/shorts/96-4d...

The US House of Representatives committee calendar for October 2025 It's .... quite something

And there it is... Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week They haven't voted since mid-September

We saved a copy of the original sentencing memo in the Taylor Taranto case Here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you get a moment.. William Hinman's life collapsed when he got hooked on gambling His warning about sports prop betting .... is worth your time First on CBS Baltimore and BLU SKY ====> youtu.be/nHzlsLZFZRA

THE DAY AHEAD: Judge demands answers about disappearance of sentencing memo (After which a reference to Jan 6 and a reference to Trump were erased) youtube.com/shorts/Kn_xE...

ALERT: Judge sentences Taylor Taranto to 21 months prison. He’d served more than that in pre-trial detention. So it’s basically “time-served” He’ll get three years supervised release too

A (particularly) lengthy argument from New York Attorney General Letitia James is forthcoming... when she argues for dismissal of her criminal case for "vindictive prosecution" ===>

Jan 6 vanished from the Justice Dept memo x.com/macfarlanene...

THE DAY AHEAD: The literal erasing of Jan 6 youtube.com/shorts/qFDXw...

SIDE-BY-SIDE The original sentencing memo against Taylor Taranto Then... the new sentencing memo against Taylor Taranto, just submitted by Justice Dept Reference to Jan 6 is eliminated

NEW: Former Trump homeland security aide --- turned vocal Trump critic -- Miles Taylor is organizing effort to support Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), if Schiff is charged by Justice Dept HERE =======> youtu.be/atKPXD3j0Sg

BREAKING NEWS: Justice Dept puts prosecutors on leave, hours after court filing acknowledged severity of Jan 6 riot and the “conspiracy theories” surrounding Jan 6 Here ===> youtube.com/shorts/7Vr2V...

Here's the Justice Dept sentencing memo that was filed hours before the two prosecutors were put on leave Jeanine Pirro's name appears on top.. but it is signed by another prosecutor storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🔥🔥🔥🔥 -- Scott MacFarlane knows more than perhaps anyone about the January 6th prosecutions because he has tenaciously followed and reported on them since January 2021. Facts. That'll do just fine. @macfarlanenews.bsky.social

BREAKING NEWS: Justice Dept puts prosecutors on leave, hours after court filing acknowledged severity of Jan 6 riot and the “conspiracy theories” surrounding Jan 6 Here ===> youtube.com/shorts/7Vr2V...

THE DAY AHEAD: After a loss for Trump Admin in court, federal workers nationwide continue their fight youtube.com/shorts/Zz5i6...

Trump fires board that oversees D.C. construction projects, as he plans major changes to White House www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

Loss in court for Trump Admin California federal court has extended its order barring the administration from firing federal workers because of the government shutdown

NEW: Bipartisan group of current & former members of Congress draft brief for court, arguing prosecutor was unlawfully appointed in the James Comey criminal case "The law does not permit the executive branch to stack successive interim appointments...." List of members ===>

New detention memo submitted by Justice Dept includes images of the alleged poker rigging equipment in the recent illegal poker busts with ties to NBA coach The alleged doctored card shuffler.. and the x-ray device beneath the poker table

John Dickerson is a mentor and a North Star for many, many of us. His next chapter will no doubt be impactful and important

ThE DAY AHEAD: Outside legal groups file briefs with court blistering Trump Admin’s decision to charge James Comey Arguing it’s evidence of democracy “backsliding” youtube.com/shorts/yGvbk...

3 VERY DIFFERENT MESSAGES Trump Admin (USDA) government website blames Senate Democrats for SNAP benefit shortfall Massachusetts and Illinois state government sites blame.... Trump and "Republican federal government shutdown"

More than 100 former top Justice Dept officials, including dozens of former prosecutors, file court brief opposing James Comey's prosecution: "not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President" washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...

TOMORROW: DC police officer Daniel Hodges, a hero of the Jan 6 response at the Capitol, will testify at a Senate subcommittee hearing on "Politically Violent Attacks: A Threat to Our Constitutional Order" Invited witness of Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT)

NEW: Roughly 3,370 flights were delayed across the U.S. on Monday, Day 27 of the government shutdown, as more essential workers failed to show up to work www.cbsnews.com/news/flight-...

THE DAY AHEAD: Congress gets paid. The police who protect them… don’t. youtube.com/shorts/6zFpG...