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The Office of the Special Counsel has launched an investigation into Jack Smith, the former special counsel who investigated President Trump before he returned to office, for alleged illegal political activity.The independent federal agency confirmed to CBS News on Saturday that it has launched an investigation into Smith for potential violations of the Hatch Act, a federal law that “limits certain political activities of federal employees.” The New York Post was first to report on the investigation into Smith.Smith was appointed by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 to take over two investigations into Mr. Trump’s handling of classified…

An appeals court late Friday mostly kept in place restrictions on “roving” immigration raids in the Los Angeles area, agreeing with a lower court judge who found that sweeps conducted by the Trump administration in Southern California appeared to have been predicated on people’s race and other factors, like speaking Spanish.A panel of judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit largely denied a Trump administration request to suspend the lower court ruling, which required federal immigration officials to have reasonable suspicion that someone is in the country illegally before detaining them.The immigration raids at the center…

A screenshot from Sydney Sweeney’s controversial ad that has since been deleted from American Eagle’s social media. American Eagle hide caption toggle caption American Eagle As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we’re also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides the connective tissue for spirited interactions and growing deeper bonds with each other. What are you going to bring up at the dinner table to get the conversation flowing? Did you read that article everybody has been talking about, too? Who or what is it? This week,…

At 42, Tameka Bostick decided she wanted to learn how to swim. Bostick said she tried to sign her teenager up for lessons, too, but her daughter said she wanted her mother to learn to swim first. “‘Ma, you do it first and see how it is, and then I’ll do it,'” Bostick recalled to CBS News right before starting her beginner swim class in Westbury, New York, run by the not-for-profit organization Black People Will Swim. “I did want to learn how to swim, so I was like, ‘You know what? I’ll do it.'”Bostick said she grew up in New…

Environment / August 1, 2025 If the planet is to survive, the future needs to be green. China seems to get that—but the US is blowing it. Ad Policy Donald Trump attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 15, 2025.(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/ AFP via Getty Images) Meteorologists are predicting that there will be some relief in August from the brutal heat wave that has engulfed much of America. But this is just a temporary respite. This year’s scorching weather is only a foretaste of the even more boiling future…

A panel of federal judges on Friday limited President Trump’s effort to close the U.S. asylum system at the southern border, saying his administration can’t unilaterally suspend laws that bar the U.S. from deporting migrants to places where they would face persecution or torture.The ruling centers on a proclamation issued by Mr. Trump just hours after he returned to the White House in January, ordering the closure of the asylum system. U.S. border officials have relied on the order to summarily expel those entering the country illegally, without allowing them to request asylum. Mr. Trump justified the sweeping measure on…

When Amber Meade twisted her ankle and broke a bone in her foot, she expected recovery to be easy. She needed surgery to shave down the damaged bone and make sure the nerves and tendons in her foot were where they should be.The procedure seemed to go smoothly, but in the weeks that followed, she began to feel debilitating pain. A second surgery found that a screw placed in her foot had been pressing on the head of one of her nerves. That screw was moved, and a nerve decompression was performed but the pain didn’t stop. “It would just turn…

President Trump is given a letter from King Charles III, by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb 27. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images There’s a pattern in many of President Trump’s interactions with other world leaders. You might call it “the art of the praise” — and they are serving heaping amounts of flattery. When Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the U.K. paid a visit to the White House in February, he brought a letter tucked in his…

When the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would roll back regulations aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions — especially from motor vehicles — it touted annual savings for Americans of $54 billion. The EPA said eliminating Biden-era policies, which encouraged higher fuel efficiency standards for cars and electric vehicle adoption to limit tailpipe emissions, would enable consumers to “have affordable choices when deciding to buy a car.”But a CBS News review of the agency’s own regulatory impact analysis of the proposal found that gasoline prices would increase, and nearly a half million jobs would be lost by 2035, according to data…

Politics / August 1, 2025 Or, to put it another way: Stop helping Republicans and back people like Zohran Mamdani. Now! Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani takes photos with supporters during a press conference at the Hotel & Gaming Trades Council building on July 02, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images) What’s the Democratic establishment been up to lately? Mostly flailing around. For instance, we recently learned that the Democratic National Committee plans to examine what went wrong in the 2024 election—with the small caveat that this autopsy won’t include any focus on the decisions of…