Watch CBS News
Israel pounded Gaza with a wave of deadly strikes overnight, killing more than 400, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel's defense minister says "the gates of hell will open in Gaza" if Hamas doesn't release remaining hostages. BBC correspondent Emir Nader has the latest from Jerusalem.
The U.S. is holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in hopes of ending the war in Ukraine. Ukraine has already accepted the terms for a 30-day ceasefire. CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd breaks it down.
A second person involved in last year's pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University was arrested this week by federal immigration agents on Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security said this person, a Palestinian woman from the West Bank, overstayed her student visa. It was not clear where she was a student. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano has more.
Newly-released video shows the moment U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took legal permanent resident and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil into custody from his Columbia University apartment last weekend, while his wife, who is eight months pregnant, was heard crying. On Thursday night, ICE agents also searched two university student residences, but made no arrests. Lilia Luciano reports.
Israel has railed against a U.N. commission accusing its troops of sexual violence in Gaza as an "anti-Semitic, rotten, terrorist-supporting" body.
The Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University's student encampment last year will remain in ICE custody in Louisiana. A Manhattan federal judge did not rule Wednesday on Mahmoud Khalil's request to be moved closer to his home in New York, but did allow Khalil's lawyers to have at least two phone calls a day with their client. CBS News legal reporter Katrina Kaufman was in the courtroom and has the details.
Sarah al-Awady says an Israeli quadcopter shot her in the head, leaving a bullet lodged behind her eye for 4 excruciating months.
A federal judge has blocked the deportation of a Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate whom federal immigration agents arrested in New York on Saturday. Mahmoud Khalil, who helped lead pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia in 2024, has not been formally charged with a crime and is a permanent U.S. resident with a green card. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano reports.
Over the weekend, Columbia University grad Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and is facing deportation. He is a green card holder, but the Trump administration says the arrest stems from his involvement in pro-Palestinian protests at the school last year. Lilia Luciano has details.
The United Kingdom-based activist group Palestine Action said it "rejects Donald Trump's treatment of Gaza as though it were his property to dispose of as he likes."
Egypt unveiled a $53 billion Gaza reconstruction plan with broad backing that would not displace Palestinians. The White House says it ignores reality.
President Trump told lawmakers gathered for a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night that his administration is "reclaiming the Panama Canal." Mr. Trump later expressed his desire to acquire Greenland and recited a letter sent by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following their heated exchange at the Oval Office.
Israeli negotiators will be heading to Cairo to try and maintain the country's ceasefire deal with Hamas. The news comes hours after the final hostage-prisoner exchange that was part of the ceasefire's first phase. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta has more.
At around the same time as the bodies of the hostages were handed over, a Red Cross convoy carrying dozens of released Palestinian prisoners left Israel's Ofer prison.
Israel says it will send negotiators, Hamas says it's ready to talk after Trump's envoy voices optimism that the Gaza ceasefire "will get to stage two."
Hamas said it returned the bodies of four Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. This was the final hostage release under the first phase of the ceasefire. Negotiations have yet to begin on phase two. BBC News correspondent Sebastian Usher reports.
Israel says its military operation in occupied West Bank refugee camps is to "prevent the return of residents and the resurgence of terrorism."
Egypt is promising a viable alternative to Trump's controversial Gaza plan with broad support that would keep Palestinians "in their homeland."
Hamas says it will not only release more Israeli hostages than expected this week, but the terrorist group will also hand over the bodies of 4 slain captives.
Monday marks 500 days of the war in Gaza, and Day 30 of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meeting with Middle Eastern leaders this week to discuss President Trump's proposal for Gaza. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay has more from Tel Aviv.
The 27-year-old was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder for Saturday night's shooting.
Michael Cohen cross-examined in Trump “hush money” trial; Elected officials share personal mental health struggles
The country of Jordan is about 300 miles from the Gaza Strip, but Tuesday in the Oval Office, Jordan's leader King Abdullah was right in the middle of the Gaza Strip's future. President Trump reiterated that the U.S. will take over the territory, the Palestinians aren't coming back and that countries in the region will foot the bill for the operation. Weijia Jiang has been following the developments.
While the truce in Gaza holds, Israel is hitting Hamas in the West Bank, and Palestinians there are deeply concerned they, too, could be forced out. Chris Livesay has more.
President Trump welcomed the king of Jordan to the White House on Tuesday, just one day after threatening to withhold aid to the Middle Eastern nation if it does not take in Palestinian refugees. After, Trump signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to work with Elon Musk's DOGE. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang has more and BBC's Wyre Davies reports on the Middle East.
The plan called for Hamas to return all Israeli hostages and for the Israeli military to begin withdrawing from parts of the Gaza Strip in phases.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, issued the temporary restraining order, which is set to expire on Oct. 18, according to court records.
The statement comes amid clashes between protesters and federal agents in Broadview, Illinois, and other reported ICE activity around the city of Chicago.
In text messages from 2022, former Virginia House Delegate Jay Jones mused about hypothetically shooting then-Republican Speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert.
Mark Sanchez, who is a Fox Sports analyst, was arrested on multiple misdemeanor charges at an Indianapolis hospital, police said.
The 2025 government shutdown stretched into its fourth day on Saturday, with the Senate again failing to advance competing proposals to end the impasse.
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents shot a woman in Broadview, Illinois, after they said they were rammed and boxed in by cars Saturday.
Rite Aid announced on its website that all locations will be closing.
Dr. Steven Milner, a well-respected Oregon veterinarian, was accused of stalking and disguising himself before murdering Kenny Fandrich — the husband of a former employee. Security cameras played a key role in how detectives pieced the case together.