More than two-thirds of registered Republican voters said in a new CBS News/You Gov poll that they want the party to show at least some signs of loyalty to former President Trump. The poll, published on Monday, found that 65 percent of registered Republican respondents said that it's important, to varying degrees, for the party...
President Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jointly condemned the riots that broke out in Brazil on Sunday. “Canada, Mexico, and the United States condemn the January 8 attacks on Brazil’s democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power. We stand with Brazil as it safeguards its democratic...
Police in Phoenix have launched an internal investigation into an incident during which officers briefly detained a reporter working for The Wall Street Journal. The reporter, Dion Rabouin, was reporting for a story outside a Chase bank in Phoenix on Nov. 23 when he was approached by officers. Police told Rabouin that he was trespassing,...
President Biden on Monday declared an emergency in California in response to the severe winter storms, flooding and mudslides the state has experienced since last week. The emergency declaration allows for federal assistance to supplement the local response efforts and it authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all...
The polarized environment will continue unless citizens can agree that a society valuing free expression is better than one in which voices are stifled.
More than 7,000 nurses from two New York City hospitals went on strike on Monday morning amid failed bargaining for better contracts. The New York State Nurses Association announced early in the morning that nurses at Mount Sinai Medical Center, on the Upper East Side, and Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, will go on...
Former President Trump on Monday urged Republicans to stake out primary challenges against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other GOP senators who vote with the leader. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump congratulated House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for winning a long, contentious Speakership vote before telling his followers that...
My Nancy Pelosi shirt reads — “Miss Me Now?” The former Speaker worked with a majority just as narrow as the one now in the hands of the Republicans. Like the Republicans, she had a high-energy group of rebels ready to challenge her — though her lefties were a more diverse bunch than the white...
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, says for “many years” he believed that his mother, Princess Diana, had faked her own death. “For a long time, I just refused to accept that she was gone,” the 38-year-old member of the British royal family said in a Sunday interview with Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes.” Diana died...
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has announced plans to raise funds to benefit first responders and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center as he continues to recover after suffering cardiac arrest during his team’s contest against the Cincinnati Bengals last week. “We all won,” Hamlin tweeted on Sunday. “I want to give back an ounce...
A new Gallup poll found that Americans say they are more likely to browse a social media platform's content rather than upload their own posts. The survey found that while most Americans who use social media platforms have accounts associated with them, less than half of those with accounts post their own content. Facebook and...
Congress and the Supreme Court would be well advised to operate within their respective spheres of competence.
President Biden condemned the protesters who stormed government offices in Brazil on Sunday in rioting reminiscent of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, vowing that Brazil's democratic institutions have his administration's "full support." “I condemn the assault on democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power in Brazil,” Biden said in a...
In 2006, the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners declared war on shopping mall teeth whiteners. They sent 47 cease-and-desist letters to operators of kiosks offering teeth whitening services. These kiosks were selling over-the-counter teeth whitening products and offering a chair for people to sit in and apply the products themselves. The dental board also...
The Supreme Court will return on Monday to hear its first oral arguments of 2023, considering cases that could impact attorney-client privilege, labor laws and foreign nations’ legal immunity. The justices will hear seven cases in the two-week sitting, though none involve major Biden administration policies — student loan debt relief and Title 42 will...
Most people would agree that the space race ended in 1969 when U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the lunar surface, but more than 50 years later, the moon is still the focal point as humanity gears up for what could be a new space race. And China could be at the center of...
Democrats are bracing for a challenging gubernatorial election in Kentucky as Gov. Andy Beshear (D) vies for a second term in a state that went overwhelmingly for former President Trump in 2020. The red state Democrat enjoys a high level of support in Kentucky and has won praise from some Republicans over his handling of natural disasters, but members...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the early front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, but lawmakers and strategists warn this can sometimes be the "death knell" for a candidate, pointing to other early presidential front-runners who flamed out despite high expectations. Experts say there are a variety of lessons for DeSantis to learn from those early front-runners...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have garnered headlines in the past few years after stepping back from being senior members of the British royal family in 2020. Many more revelations behind the circumstances of their departure and other rarely publicized details about the royal family are set to be...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced Sunday that his state will stop sending migrants to New York City and Chicago after those cities' Democratic mayors told Polis they were becoming overwhelmed with the number of people arriving in their jurisdictions. "People fleeing violence and oppression in search of a better life for themselves and their...
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) called on the Biden administration and local authorities in Florida on Sunday to send back to Brazil its former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters stormed the country's Congress and Supreme Court. "[Bolsonaro] should be extradited to Brazil," Castro said to CNN's Jim Acosta. "In fact, it was reported that he...
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) called out the Biden administration on Sunday for not inviting him on the president's trip to the border. During an appearance on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Gonzales told moderator Margaret Brennan that he was disappointed with the White House’s decision to not include him on Sunday’s visit. Gonzalez said he asked...
About 4 million children in Pakistan are still living near potentially life-threatening flood waters, more than four months after monsoon rains washed away their villages, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). These children are facing skyrocketing rates of acute respiratory infections, exacerbated by the presence of contaminated and stagnant pools of water, UNICEF...
All eyes are turning to a handful of Senate Democrats in key battleground states to see whether they’ll decide to run again in 2024 after Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) announced her retirement this week. Stabenow’s decision could be the first in a wave of potential retirements that would create GOP pickup opportunities in a tough...
President Biden on Sunday visited a migrant services center and asked workers inside what his administration can do to help amid record-breaking migrants crossing into the U.S. from the southern border with Mexico. “If I could wave the wand, what should I do?” the president asked those at the El Paso County Migrant Services Center....
