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The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town overwhelmingly won election this week, four years after he says White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve.Incumbent Mayor Patrick Braxton was elected as the mayor of Newbern, winning 66 votes to his opponent’s 26, according to results posted by the town. His victory puts a punctuation mark in the dispute over control of the town government that drew national attention.”The people came out and spoke and voted. Now, there ain’t no doubt what they want for this town,” Braxton said in a telephone…

Jim O’Neill is the new acting director of the CDC. Here, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swears him in as deputy secretary of HHS on June 9. O’Neill will serve in both roles. Amy Rossetti/Department of Health and Human Services via AP hide caption toggle caption Amy Rossetti/Department of Health and Human Services via AP It’s been a week of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For employees at the public health agency headquartered in Atlanta, the first inkling that something was amiss came on Monday when a planned all-staff meeting was cancelled. Here’s how events…

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa has told confidantes she plans to reveal next week that she won’t seek reelection in 2026, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.Ernst’s announcement is scheduled for Thursday, the sources said. Ernst, 55, has served in the U.S. Senate since 2015.Spokespeople for Ernst did not reply to requests for comment. Some Iowa Democrats have already jumped into the race, including state Sen. Zach Wahls, state Rep. Josh Turek, and Des Moines School Board chairwoman Jackie Norris. Ernst has been evasive about whether she would run for a third term in 2026, but in public…

Politics / August 29, 2025 Even the Danes are getting angry. The Danes! Ad Policy Mark Stroh, the US Chargé d’Affaires in Denmark, arrives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen on August 27, 2025. (Thomas Traasdahl / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images) Before Donald Trump, the idea of a diplomatic spat between Denmark and the United States would have sounded outlandish. Even more than many of its European peers, Denmark has historically placed a premium on its alliance with the United States. During the George W. Bush administration, for instance, it was one of only five…

Inflation still outpacing wages, study finds Americans’ paychecks still not keeping up with inflation, study finds 03:52 The Personal Consumption Expenditures index, a key inflation gauge used by the Federal Reserve to make interest-rate decisions, held steady in July according to new data from the Department of Commerce.Prices across the U.S. rose at an annual rate of 2.6% last month, the same as in June and in line with economist forecasts. Core inflation, which excludes the more volatile food and energy categories, rose 2.9% from a year ago, up slightly from June’s 2.8% and the highest since February, according to…

Seattle — Two firefighters who were part of a 44-person crew fighting a wildland blaze on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents during a multiagency criminal investigation into the two contractors they worked for, federal authorities said Thursday.The arrests prompted Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, of Washington State, to call U.S. immigration policy “sick.”The U.S. Bureau of Land Management asked the Border Patrol to help check the workers’ identities Wednesday when crews were working in a remote area, the Border Patrol said in a statement. Border Patrol agents found two workers who were in the U.S.…

Thailand’s suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, center, arrives at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. Sakchai Lalit/AP hide caption toggle caption Sakchai Lalit/AP BANGKOK — Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed Paetongtarn Shinawatra from her position as prime minister, ruling that as the country’s leader she violated constitutional rules on ethics in a phone call with Cambodia’s Senate President Hun Sen. The ruling means she immediately loses her job, which she had held for about a year. Paetongtarn was suspended from her duties on July 1 when the court agreed to hear the case against her, and…

8/28: CBS Evening News Plus – CBS News Watch CBS News Why CDC employees are resigning in protest after director’s ouster; Reporter’s Notebook: Who tells a president the hard truths? Source link

Politics / August 28, 2025 Winning in November isn’t enough. A Mayor Mamdani will need a mass movement behind him to overcome an establishment that wants to crush him. Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani, attends a campaign canvass relaunch event at Prospect Park Brooklyn.(Michael Nigro / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images) The prospect of Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who has said billionaires shouldn’t exist, becoming the mayor of New York City has the ruling class in a tizzy. But Kathryn Wylde, head of one of the city’s most powerful business lobbies, has a message for her rich friends:…

An exemption that allowed low-value parcels shipped to the United States to avoid tariffs ended at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Trump administration officials said.President Trump signed an executive order suspending what’s known as the de minimis exemption late last month. At the time, the White House said that would close what it called a “catastrophic loophole” that shippers use to “evade tariffs and funnel deadly synthetic opioids or below-market products” into the U.S.The exemption applied to parcels valued at $800 or less and let overseas retailers ship inexpensive goods to consumers in the U.S. tax-free. Mr. Trump “is putting an end to the proliferation of shippers worldwide…