VA expands mental health care for discharged veterans

Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, addresses the House Veterans' Affairs Committee's hearing on the Veterans Affairs community care program, on Captiol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, addresses the House Veterans' Affairs Committee's hearing on the Veterans Affairs community care program, on Captiol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2017.

How the Correspondents’ Dinner devolved into a celebrity lovefest

Barack Obama high-fives Jimmy Kimmel alongside Caren Bohan of Reuters, President of the White House Correspondents Association during the White House Correspondents Association Dinner in 2012. For the self-proclaimed nerds who work in the far-from-glitzy worlds of federal government and political journalism, there is one weekend each year when their lives look like something out of a movie.

Western States Remember Internment 75 Years on

States in the American West are marking the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that forced 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans into internment camps. Adults, including the elderly, and children could only bring what they could carry and were transported by bus and train, often with blacked-out windows, They were sent, ostensibly to avoid sabotage and spying, to camps in California, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and other states as far away as Arkansas.

Abolish Presidentsa Dayby Kevin D. WilliamsonMonday is Presidents’…

Oh, it started off with the best of intentions: a national commemoration of George Washington's life on his birthday. George Washington was a natural aristocrat, a man of impeccable probity and great personal courage, whose dignity and humility after kicking King George in the pants set a new standard not for American political leaders but for political leaders per se.

Washington’s top lawyer uses strategic streak to fight Trump

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, center, speaks with Solicitor General Noah Purcell, left, and Civil Rights Unit Chief Colleen Melody in a hallway before a news conference about a federal appeals court's refusal to ... . Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks at a news conference about a federal appeals court's refusal to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2... .

Gorsuch meets with Democrats

In this Jan. 31, 2017 file photo, Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. WASHINGTON -- Republicans and conservative groups stepped up their campaign to secure confirmation of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee as the federal judge courted two Senate Democrats crucial to his winning a seat on the high court.

Republicans decry Trump’s defense of Putin and Russia

Appearing on four Sunday shows, Vice President Mike Pence rejected the notion that Trump had equated Russia to the United States. "What you heard there was a determination to attempt to deal with the world as it is to start afresh with Putin and to start afresh with Russia," Pence said on CBS' "Face the Nation.

Cumulative effect of taxes, regulations hurt small business

This fact may be more apparent in rural towns that often have few or no large businesses to help generate the economic energy that funds schools, safety-net programs and public safety. That's why the Association of Washington Business and its members have expressed concern with Gov. Jay Inslee's budget proposal released in December.

A closer look at Steve Bannon’s reclusive role within Trump administration

It is a mark of Steve Bannon's extraordinary sway in the Trump White House that a man who has spoken so little in public over the past two weeks is getting so much credit - and blame - for what's going on. The conservative media executive's fingerprints are on virtually every significant move taken by President Donald Trump, from Trump's sweeping order to suspend the country's refugee program and block visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries to the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

DeVos may have used official’s remarks without attribution

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., accompanied by the committee's ranking member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, during the committee's executive session to discuss the nomination of Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos.

Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont

A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by President Barack Obama's administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials. While the Russians did not actively use the code to disrupt operations of the utility, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss a security matter, the penetration of the nation's electrical grid is significant because it represents a potentially serious vulnerability.

Political Crystal Ball: Predictions For 2017

"Face the Nation" host John Dickerson will discuss predictions for 2017 with a panel of CBS News correspondents in a segment that will air Sunday . CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues said that he predicts FBI Director James Comey will stay in his job despite the blowback he received from how he handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails and the last-minute discovery of related emails a week before the election.

Trumpa s impending presidency sparks a surge in calls to Planned Parenthood

Emily Kadar, right, and Debra Cooper participate in a rally to condemn President-elect Donald Trump's remar ks about women and abortion on March 31, 2016, in New York. Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., right, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., listen as Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., speaks to members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 1, 2015, regarding the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives.

Trump and foreign policy: UW Jackson School faculty speak out

What will the ramifications of a Donald Trump presidency be on United States foreign policy and its place in the world? Several faculty members in the University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies reviewed their areas of expertise - China, Russia, Europe, the Middle East and immigration - in light of this new geopolitical reality. Their comments are below.