Watch the CBS Reports documentary “Arming Cartels: Inside the Mexican-American Gunrunning Networks” in the video player above. Mexican drug cartels have been smuggling a vast arsenal of even military-grade weapons out of the U.S. with the help of American citizens, a CBS Reports investigation has found. Exclusively-obtained U.S. intelligence documents and interviews with half a dozen…
Washington — A group of House and Senate Democrats is urging top Trump administration officials to use the recent designation of Latin American cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations to take action to curtail the flow of American-made guns across the southern border. The 14 Democratic lawmakers said in a letter to Homeland Security…
Here Comes The Sun: Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and abstract artist Sean Scully – CBS News Watch CBS News Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords sits down with Ben Tracy to talk about her recovery after being shot at a congressional campaign event in 2011. Giffords and her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly, also discuss the…
More than a dozen law enforcement agencies have stopped reselling their used guns or pledged to reconsider the practice after an investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. The investigation, published last year, revealed that more than 52,000 former police guns had resurfaced in robberies, domestic violence incidents,…
Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. She rushed to check on him at a hospital run by Denver Health, the city’s safety-net system, but she was unable to get information from emergency room workers, who complained that she was creating a disturbance. “I was distraught…
US President Donald Trump used a virtual appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to air some grievances while making additional tariff threats. This time it was against European Union nations, as he told them to make their goods in America or face penalties. While Trump has delayed his central campaign promise to…
A convicted felon who allegedly had possession of multiple firearms while in the presence of a child was arrested after fleeing police in Essex on Wednesday with the minor in his vehicle. The incident began unfolding around 9:40 a.m. when officers from the Essex Police Department and the Resident Trooper’s Office were asked to assist…
Elon Musk vowed Tuesday to keep his political action committee going beyond the presidential election, a sign the world’s richest person is building a political machine that goes beyond his support of Republican nominee Donald Trump. “America PAC is going to keep going after this election,” Musk said on an X Spaces Tuesday. Musk said…