Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona filed a ...

Judge reprimands defense secretary over attempt to reduce Arizona senator’s military rank and pension A US judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from reducing Senator Mark Kelly’s retired military ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge blocked the Pentagon Thursday from docking Sen. Mark Kelly’s rank and reducing his pay as part of a move by War Secretary Pete Hegseth to censure the Arizona Democrat. DC ...

Members of the House institutions committee on Wednesday raised questions regarding the oversight procedure for people who leave public office and take private sector jobs within two years in light of ...

A federal judge on Tuesday expressed skepticism over the Pentagon's effort to downgrade the pay and rank of Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona after he publicly urged service members not to follow ...

Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow raised concerns about the way in which the Trump administration obtained its arrest warrant for Don Lemon—and the implications of that process. "When governments ...

On Jan. 12, 2026, according to social media posts and reporting by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained special education classroom assistant ...

Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly filed a lawsuit against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Monday — challenging Hegseth’s move to demote Kelly’s military rank after the senator told service members ...

Lawyers for Sen. Mark Kelly filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to block Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s move to cut Kelly’s retirement pay and reduce his rank in response to Kelly’s urging of US ...

North Carolina leaders last year approved new rules for handling criminal suspects who may need psychiatric care — prompting a dispute between hospitals and law enforcement groups over a new ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says he's begun the process of reducing the retirement pay and rank of Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over a video Kelly did telling troops not to follow illegal orders.

Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., said he will challenge the Pentagon’s attempt to downgrade his military rank, calling the move “outrageous” and accusing the Trump administration of trying to silence its ...