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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over whether a federal obstruction law can be used to prosecute former President Donald Trump and hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane has more.

The Justice Department says more than 1,387 people have been charged in connection to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. CBS News’ Anne-Marie Green breaks down the charges.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools. The ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law banning transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams. The court said the law cannot lawfully be applied to a 13-year-old girl who has been taking puberty-blocking medication and publicly identified as a girl since she was in the third grade. Sports participation is one of the main fronts in legislative and legal battles in recent years over the role of transgender people in U.S. public life. Most Republican-controlled states have passed restrictions on participation, as well as bans on gender-affirming health care for minors. Several have also restricted which bathrooms and locker rooms transgender people can use, particularly in schools. West Virginia is one of at least 24 states with a law on the books barring transgender women and girls from competing in certain women’s or girls sports competitions. The bans are in effect

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday is taking up the first of two cases that could affect the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his election loss in 2020. Hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot also are at stake. The justices are hearing arguments over the charge of obstruction of an official proceeding. That charge, stemming from a law passed in the aftermath of the Enron financial scandal more than two decades ago, has been brought against 330 people, according to the Justice Department. The court will consider whether it can be used against those who disrupted Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory over Trump. The former president and presumptive nominee for the 2024 Republican nomination is facing two charges in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith in Washington that could be knocked out with a favorable ruling from the nation’s highest court. Next week, the justices will hear arguments over whether Trump has “absolute immunity” from prosecution in the case, a proposition that has so far been rejected by two lower

By COLLIN BINKLEY (AP Education Writer) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s latest plan for student loan cancellation is moving forward as a proposed regulation, offering him a fresh chance to deliver on a campaign promise and energize young voters ahead of the November election. The Education Department on Tuesday filed paperwork for a new regulation that would deliver the cancellation that Biden announced last week. It still has to go through a 30-day public comment period and another review before it can be finalized. It’s a more targeted proposal than the one the U.S. Supreme Court struck down last year. The new plan uses a different legal basis and seeks to cancel or reduce loans for more than 25 million Americans. Conservative opponents, who see it as an unfair burden for taxpayers who didn’t attend college, have threatened to challenge it in court. The Democratic president highlighted the the plan during a trip to Wisconsin last week, saying it would provide “life-changing” relief. He laid out five categories of people who would be eligible for help. The new paperwork filed by the Education Department

MIAMI — As Thairo Estrada rounded third after his first of two home runs this week at Tropicana Field, he gestured to a contingent in Giants orange in the seats behind the visitors’ dugout. There was his wife, Lorena, and his daughter, Arantza, but also a friend, Jhayme, taking advantage of a rare visit from Estrada and his ball club from faraway San Francisco. Catching up a couple days beforehand, the buddies of four years or so had a prescient conversation, the kind that’s a little tougher — modern technology be damned — on opposite coasts. “We had very positive conversations — that’s what I like to do — and he mentioned to me that during one of those three games, I was going to go deep,” Estrada said in Spanish through interpreter Erwin Higueros. “So that’s why I pointed. It’s pretty nice to be able to come over here and have your friends see you play and have my wife and my daughter at the stadium, as well, it makes it really special.” The Giants may be far from home — further than anywhere

Normally parched roads and airport runways in the desert city-state of Dubai were left underwater by an incredibly rare rainstorm.

The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge with federal officials wanting to know if the crew was aware that the cargo ship that rammed the bridge last month had been malfunctioning before it left port. CBS News’ Nicole Sganga has more.

ABBA, Blondie and The Notorious B.I.G. are entering America’s audio canon.

“This is our Notre Dame”: Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange building, which dates back to the 17th century, erupted into flames in what onlookers could only describe as a tragedy. The iconic building’s dragon-tail spire, which legend says protected it from nearby fires for years, collapsed.

CBS News investigates illicit marijuana grow operations tied to Chinese criminal networks in Maine.

Recognized as one of CMT’s “Next Women of Country,” Tanner Adell’s career soared after her appearances on Beyoncé’s latest album. With a 1,500% spike in Spotify listeners and a new single, “Whiskey Blues,” Adell is quickly becoming a standout in the country-pop scene.

Jury selection resumes Tuesday morning in Donald Trump’s “hush money” case. Trump faces 34 felony counts for allegedly falsifying business records in order to hide an alleged affair with former adult film star Stormy Daniels, charges he denies. Those in the courtroom Monday say Trump appeared irritated and bored at times. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa has more.

The matchups for Tuesday’s play-in tournament game between the Warriors and Kings are tantalizing. Steph Curry against De’Aaron Fox. Draymond Green against Domantas Sabonis. Steve Kerr against Mike Brown. But there’s one player for whom the other team cannot account. And he just so happens to play the most important position in the game come the postseason. Warriors wing Jonathan Kuminga’s 2023-24 season has been a roller coaster. There was the pre-report, pre-haircut Kuminga, who was in and out of Kerr’s rotation and averaging 12 points per game, an inauspicious start to the campaign that culminated in a conspicuous absence late in a home loss to the Nuggets and a “loss of faith” in the head coach, as reported by The Athletic on Jan. 5. Since then, Kuminga has been arguably the Warriors’ third most important player (behind Curry and Green), playing nearly 30 minutes per game and averaging 19 points per contest. And while the hype around the 21-year-old has risen alongside the minutes and points, it’s still unclear if the Warriors can trust him as the team heads into this postseason — his

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 1:16PM Family members and fellow law enforcement officers gathered in Merced Monday morning to pay tribute to an officer who died 20 years ago in the line of duty. MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) — On April 15, 2004, Officer Gray was gunned down during a routine traffic stop in Merced. On Monday, dozens of officers gathered outside the Merced police station to remember the fallen officer’s life and commitment to the community. At the time of his death, Officer Gray had been an officer with the police department for about seven years. He left behind a wife and three young children. “He has missed out on every middle school, high school and college graduation of all three of our children,” said his wife, Michelle. She said sometimes, it feels like time is at a standstill when she thinks of her husband’s death. “Our whole world just kind of unraveled and I didn’t understand. I still went in, I sat on the gurney with him for hours before I let them take him away because I knew that I would never see him

His personal best time of 2:09:53 earned him the distinction as fastest American in a field of nearly 30,000 runners. Tuesday, April 16, 2024 1:14PM C.J. Albertson, a Buchanan grad and head coach of the cross country team at Clovis Community College, finished in 7th place at the Boston Marathon. FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — C.J. Albertson, a Buchanan grad and current head coach of the cross country team at Clovis Community College, finished in 7th place at the Boston Marathon. His personal best time of 2:09:53 earned him the distinction as fastest American in a field of nearly 30,000 runners. “On Strava, a running app, I put my ideal Boston splits – kind of jokingly – and it came out to I think 2:09:52,” Albertson told Action News. “I basically ran that exact time.” It’s his fourth time running the Boston Marathon, having set the pace for 20 miles back in 2021 before fading to a 10th place finish. “The course suits me,” he said Monday. “All the downhills kind of beat people up, but I handle them pretty well and so I’m able to

NEW YORK — It’s a moment in history – the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see or even hear what is going on. Instead, most of the nation is getting news of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial secondhand. Starting with preliminary motions and jury selection Monday, reporters in a Manhattan courtroom must convey what is being said to the outside world after the fact. That’s all because New York state law regarding media coverage of court proceedings is one of the most restrictive in the country. Last week’s death of O.J. Simpson, whose murder trial beamed live from a California courtroom captivated a nation three decades ago, was a telling reminder of how New York is behind the times – or, at least, a holdout. WHY WON’T NEW YORK LET ME SEE IT? Regulations limiting media coverage in courtrooms date back nearly a century, when the spectacle of bright flashbulbs and camera operators standing on witness tables during the 1935 trial of the man accused of kidnapping and killing

We are a nation of procrastinators, at least when it comes to taxes. Nearly a quarter of Americans wait until the last two weeks before the deadline to prepare their taxes, according to the IRS, whereas some miss Tax Day altogether. For anyone who is a last-minute filer or missed the April 15 deadline, here’s what to do. File for an extension If the deadline is fast approaching and it looks like it won’t be possible to file those taxes in time, ask for an extension. If the request is received before Tax Day, it pushes the deadline back another six months and buys time to get everything in order. RELATED: Taxes due 2024: IRS expects ‘tens of millions’ of returns to be filed last minute Filing for an extension, before missing the deadline, can be done by submitting Form 4868, Application for Automatic Extension of Time To File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, on IRS.gov. Filing a late return when expecting a refund For those who miss the tax filing deadline and are expecting to receive a refund from the IRS, the situation at

A movie weapons armorer received the maximum sentence of 18 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on a Western movie set, as authorities now turn their focus on prosecution of Baldwin himself. A New Mexico judge on Monday found that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s recklessness amounted to a serious violent offense, while noting few indications of genuine remorse from the defendant since her conviction in March. Prosecutors blame Gutierrez-Reed for unwittingly bringing live ammunition onto the set of “Rust,” where it was expressly prohibited, and for failing to follow basic gun-safety protocols . Attention now turns to Baldwin’s upcoming trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the October 2021 death of Halyna Hutchins at a movie ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe. Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer of the film, was pointing a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal when the gun went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has pleaded not guilty and says he pulled back the hammer – but not the trigger – and the gun fired. Here

A Sudanese-American family is the first to be reunited in the U.S. after a woman and her sons spent nearly a year stuck in Saudi Arabia.

The Senate is tasked with the trial after the House impeached Mayorkas earlier this year. Senate Democrats are expected to move to quickly quash the effort.