Scoop: Trump likely to make leadership changes involving 2 more top roles at Justice Dept, per sources. The changes will affect Harmeet Dhillon, asst AG for Civil Rights Division -- a promotion -- as well as Stanley Woodward, No. 3 official at DOJ -- demotion for him www.cbsnews.com/news/white-h...

Scoop: Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

Hundreds of US Special Ops military personnel, including Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, now in Middle East, as well as Marines and Army paratroopers, sources tell @cbsnews.com. We reported on some of the preparations March 20. The deployments give Trump options in Iran including with Strait of Hormuz.

BREAKING via @cbsnews.com: About a dozen U.S. service members were injured in an attack on Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia, according to multiple U.S. officials. A small number sustained very serious injuries; others were considered seriously injured. @JimLaPorta @ellee_watson and me.

New: The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier will deploy to U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility, the major combatant command overseeing American military operations against Iran, sources told @JimLaPorta @ellee_watson and me. @cbsnews.com

🚨News: The Iranian response to the U.S. peace proposal is expected later today, sources familiar with the matter told @margbrennan and me. President Trump and top White House officials have been told that Iran's counter-proposal would likely arrive Friday via interlocutors. @cbsnews.com

News: An agreement that would allow the federal government to use voter registration data for immigration and criminal investigations is close to being done, sources told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

BREAKING: A Trump official refers New York AG Letitia James for prosecution after a previous case was dismissed.

Scoop: White House rejected an offer from Elon Musk to cover TSA workers' pay. Suggestion was taken seriously by Trump officials, but they believe partial shutdown is likely to end soon. And there could be legal challenges for Musk to fund the pay, even indirectly, because of his govt contracts.

NEWS: Trump has been strategizing methods to secure or extract Iran's nuclear materials, sources told @cbsnews.com. The timing of any such an operation – if he were to order it – remained unclear Friday night. But planning has centered on JSOC, an elite military unit www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...

NEWS: Pentagon officials have made detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran, multiple sources told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

Scoop: FBI and IRS agents are forming a new initiative to investigate nonprofit organizations over suspected possible links to domestic terrorism, sources briefed on the matter told @SarahNLynch and me. @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-irs...

Multiple US and state law enforcement and intel officials told @cbsnews.com there is no credible intelligence underpinning the bulletin distributed on the unverified possibility that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast. "This is not actionable," one said.

NEWS: An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed US service members in the early hours of war was more severe than previously known. 30+ remained in hospitals yday. About 20 arrived at Landstuhl Tuesday with injuries the military designated “urgent." @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/strike-...

CBS News Investigation: Hospice fraud in California https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/212981/ CBS News Investigation: Hospice fraud in California – CBS News Watch CBS News California vowed to stamp out…

Streets around the White House are temporarily shut down with police tape and a surge of law enforcement officials due to a suspicious vehicle, CBS News reports. The driver of the car has been detained and was being questioned by US Secret Service.

Iran came up when Trump met with @FIFAWorldCup's Gianni Infantino and White House FIFA task force's @AndrewHGiuliani on Tuesday evening. Trump told Infantino it's ok for Iran's team to play in the tournament in the U.S. @cbsnews.com

Trust breaking between Pentagon and Anthropic over use of their AI model. Hegseth gave them til week's end to grant full access to Claude. Anthropic wants to place guardrails. Hegseth said when govt buys Boeing planes, the company has no say in how they're used www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

US played role in Mexico-led operation that killed drug kingpin El Mencho--a Pentagon joint task force regularly works with the Mexican military, CBS reports. The killing triggered violence in Puerto Vallarta and other areas, with reports the cartels are burning road blocks and vehicles @cbsnews.com

CBS looked at prosecutions of people threatening high-ranking govt officials--number charged in 2025 was double number from 2022. 41 cases involved threats against Trump, Biden, Obama. "There has been a very marked decline in civility..." @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/threats...

"This is a problem we want to fix," Karoline Leavitt tells me, referring to sewer pipe that collapsed and is dumping sewage into Potomac River. "Because it will be an ecological and environmental disaster if the federal government does not step in to help."

NEWS: Goodbye to the Kennedy-era paint colors on exterior of aircraft executive fleet. New Trump colors will appear on donated Qatari jet and two planes Boeing is converting as AF1. Some blue-and-whites already being repainted in dark navy blue, deep red and gold www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-air...

SCOOP: The unexpected airspace closure in El Paso stemmed from disagreements over anti-drone tests. Pentagon using high-energy laser to practice taking out cartel drones. Earlier this wk, tech used to shoot down what appeared to be foreign drones. Was a party balloon www.cbsnews.com/news/airspac...

Scoop from @cbsnews.com: A 26-year-old man from Maryland is facing attempted murder charges after he showed up at OMB director Russ Vought's home wearing a surgical mask and gloves. He was arrested Jan. 22 by Arlington County Police. www.cbsnews.com/news/marylan...

Scoop: White House anti-fraud task force targeting abuse in California and other states will be led by VP Vance. Trump intends to sign an EO in coming days. Andrew Ferguson will be vice chair. @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

Scoop: Drug addiction and an effort to coordinate federal govt response is on Trump agenda. 4:30 pm announcement will be EO on early intervention and grants for recovery. RFK and Kathryn Burgum will chair the effort, called the Great American Recovery Initiative. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...

At an event in DC, Nicki Minaj says she is Trump's "number one fan" and "that's not going to change, and the hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all." Trump joked: "I said, I'm going to let my nails grow, because I love those nails."

NEW from @CBSNews: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has faced internal scrutiny in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, sources familiar with the matter say, but Noem is expected to keep her job. www.cbsnews.com/news/kristi-...

Scoop: Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint bringing charges against Don Lemon in connection with the church protest on Sunday, sources tell @camiloreports @SarahNLynch @MacFarlaneNews and me. @cbsnews.com

Trump has left Davos. Meanwhile, the locals are outside chilling in the sunshine.

SCOOP: Justice Department is investigating Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, for impeding federal immigration agents, sources told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

White House officials say María Corina Machado presented Trump with the real Nobel Peace prize medallion today—not a replica. The Nobel Peace Center says: "A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot." @cbsnews.com

Scoop: The frontrunner to oversee a new national counter-fraud push at the Justice Dept in the wake of revelations of massive public benefits fraud in Minnesota is Colin McDonald, a top official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, sources @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/fraud-c...

Trump confirmed CBS scoop from 2:30 am ET on US land strikes inside Venezuela. US oil companies will spend billions to fix the infrastructure "and start making money for the country," Trump said at Mar-a-Lago. US will essentially control Venezuela until "proper transition" can take place, he said

NEWS: Some U.S. servicemembers suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds and other injuries during Venezuela operation, per sources. All are in stable condition. No U.S. fatalities. via @ellee_watson and @JimLaPorta @cbsnews.com

🚨SCOOP from @cbsnews.com: Venezuela's Maduro was captured by Delta Force, the US military's elite special mission unit, sources tell me.

Scoop: Trump gave the U.S. military the green light to conduct land strikes in Venezuela days ago, U.S. officials told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

🚨BREAKING via @CBSNews: President Trump ordered strikes on sites inside Venezuela including military facilities, U.S. officials said, as the administration early Saturday ratcheted up its campaign against the regime of President Nicolás Maduro. via @JimLaPorta and me

Coming land strikes may be against specific people, and just in Venezuela, Trump says. "It's land strikes on horrible people that are bringing in drugs and killing our people...So it doesn't necessarily have to be in Venezuela--it's people that are bringing in drugs to our country, are targets."

Trump says he's giving a full pardon to Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters, who has been serving a nine-year sentence after she was found guilty on seven counts related to election interference

BREAKING via CBS: Oil tanker US seized was "Skipper," per sources. The operation started around 6am today and involved 2 helicopters with special operations forces--10 Marines and 10 Coast Guard--that launched from a US military vessel. 🚨Trump admin contemplating more missions like this, I'm told.

News: Trump will name the deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department to be the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, per sources. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-d...

Scoop: Trump has hired a new architect for the White House ballroom. The current one, James McCrery, will remain on the team, despite some clashes with the president, sources tell @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...

NEWS: Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect is Brian Cole, 30, of northern Virginia, per sources. Previous scoop on FBI clearing an innocent woman whose name was falsely tied to the case by amateur sleuths: www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jan... Today's breaking news via @cbsnews.com: www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/pip...

Scoop: Military officials on Weds presented Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including land strikes, per sources. Hegseth, Caine at White House yday afternoon for briefings. No final decision made, two of the sources told @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...

Scoop: Some financial industry execs have been invited to dinner at White House tomorrow night with Trump, including Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman and JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, per sources. It comes a couple months after Trump hosted a dinner for tech CEOs on Sept. 4.  @cbsnews.com

Scoop: The secretary of state, treasury sec and White House personnel office director were sitting in a London restaurant during Trump's state visit. "All of a sudden this guy walks in," Rubio recalled. "I'm like, 'Oh my God, that's Mick Jagger.'" Tales from a roast: www.cbsnews.com/news/marco-r...

Scoop: Saudi Arabia is hosting a U.S.-Saudi investment summit Weds. Nov. 19 in DC during MBS's visit to meet with Trump, sources told @cbsnews.com

NEW: The proposal for a 50-year mortgage wasn't fully vetted by top Trump admin officials. One source said President Trump was lukewarm about idea but announced it “to get Pulte to shut up about it.”  www.cbsnews.com/news/50-year...

News: Apple calls out EU officials in a heated letter, arguing regulations have made its platform less safe. "risks to users on our devices will inevitably increase." It's latest complaint from a US co. about alleged overreach from EU's powerful digital laws. via CBS www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-b...