Peanuts celebrates its 75th anniversary – CBS News Watch CBS News When it debuted 75 years ago, the Peanuts comic strip appeared in just seven newspapers. But the characters would soon become as famous as any Hollywood star. “CBS Evening News” co-anchors Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson have more. Source link
Breaking down new report on extremist political violence – CBS News Watch CBS News A new report from the Center for Strategic and International studies looked at 30 years of extremist political violence in America and analyzed what motivated violence from the right and left extremes. CSIS Director Daniel Byman joins to discuss. Source link
Federal officials have approved another generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, a regulatory formality that quickly triggered pushback from anti-abortion groups and politicians aligned with the Trump administration. Drugmaker Evita Solutions announced on its website that the Food and Drug Administration signed off on its low-cost form of the pill, which is approved to…
The White House is asking nine U.S. universities to sign an agreement pledging to uphold the Trump administration’s higher education priorities, or risk losing out on preferred access to federal funding. The demands are outlined in a nine-page document, title the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” that asks schools to freeze their tuition…
Employers across the U.S. cut nearly 950,000 jobs this year through September, the largest number of layoffs since 2020, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Job cuts could surpass more than 1 million in 2025, the group forecast. The layoffs this year, although elevated, remain well below the massive workforce reductions in 2020, when…
Washington — Russell Vought, director of Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is front-and-center in government shutdown news, announcing the federal funding freezes and cuts and telling Republicans Wednesday that federal layoffs will begin in a “day or two,” according to two sources. As OMB director, Vought is responsible for overseeing and implementing the president’s…
Washington — While President Trump billed the federal law enforcement surge in the nation’s capital as an effort to crack down on violent crime, internal government data obtained by CBS News shows nearly 40% of over 3,500 arrests made since the operation began in early August were strictly immigration-related. The federal government statistics indicate that,…
A Navy fireman who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor has been identified 84 years later, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Edward D. Bowden enlisted in the military in 1939, according to a newspaper clipping shared by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He was from New Bern, North Carolina. Bowden…
If Christa Gail Pike’s execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a century ago. After attempted appeals by Pike’s attorneys repeatedly failed, the Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set a date for her to…
Among the fundraisers that have cropped up in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at a Michigan church last weekend, one aims to raise money not for the victims but, instead, for family members of the accused shooter. The organizer, David Butler, says he is not a member of the Grand Blanc Township ward…