The pandemic has led to a growing number of households experiencing hunger in 2020. The nonprofit Feeding America estimates 54 million people could face food insecurity by the end of the year, including 18 million children. Tamara Sandberg, U.S. food security and nutrition advisor for the nonprofit Save the Children, joined CBSN's Tom Hanson to discuss.
Oneita and Clive Thompson are celebrating freedom after spending 843 days in hiding to avoid deportation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it will no longer seek removal of the couple, who have five children. The Thompsons joined CBSN to share their story.
A man convicted and sentenced to death in the 2002 murder and beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl is set to be released in Pakistan. In April, a court lowered the charges for Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh. CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab has details.
Several aid programs are set to expire in the coming days unless President Trump signs the latest COVID relief bill into law. CBS News White House correspondent Paula Reid spoke to CBSN's Tom Hanson about what's standing in the way of the extension of added unemployment benefits and eviction protections.
"What he is right now is very, very nervous and he is very scared," the president's former personal attorney told CBSN.
