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President Trump displays a signed executive order during Thursday’s signing ceremony in the White House, surrounded by administration and professional athletes including golfer Bryson DeChambeau and WWE Chief Creative Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images For generations of U.S. schoolchildren, phrases like “shuttle run” and “sit-and-reach” likely conjure vivid memories of what was once a staple of American physical education: the Presidential Fitness Test. And thanks to a new executive order, it’s slated to return to gymnasiums nationwide. On Thursday, President Trump signed the order reviving the test, a set of…

President Trump on Friday said he’s ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in the “appropriate regions,” in response to threatening comments made by Russia’s former president. “Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social Friday. “Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope…

Politics / August 1, 2025 In a series of mid-decade redistricting gambits, state legislatures are looking to rig next year’s congressional balloting in advance. Ad Policy Voting rights protesters outside the Supreme Court in 2023 in advance of a gerrymandering ruling.(Evelyn Hockstein / For The Washington Post via Getty Images) Ohio’s Ninth and 13th Congressional Districts are two of the most evenly divided districts in the nation. In 2024, Democrats narrowly won both. Veteran Toledo lawmaker Representative Marcy Kaptur held the competitive Ninth, a slender, snaking district that runs along Ohio’s northwest coast, by less than 1 percentage point. In…

Former Food Network star Paula Deen announced Friday the abrupt closure of the Savannah restaurant that launched her to fame with its menu of fried chicken, banana pudding and other indulgent Southern dishes.Deen ran The Lady & Sons restaurant with her two sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen, for nearly three decades. Loyal fans visiting Savannah continued to line up for Deen’s buffet long after the Food Network canceled her show, “Paula’s Home Cooking,” in 2013. Paula Deen Andy Kropa/Invision/AP But 78-year-old Deen said Friday that The Lady & Sons closed for good along with her second Savannah eatery, The Chicken…

Carolyn Feinstein said she initially thought the message sent to her private email address on a late Friday afternoon was a scheme or a prank. It turned out that she was being fired from her federal job. Once Feinstein read the email, she discovered her work cellphone was no longer operating. Feinstein’s decade of work as a forensic auditor for the Justice Department’s Office of Trustee — which helps oversee bankruptcies — ended on July 18, when her employment was terminated in a three-paragraph message sent by an agency administrator.”This is a big loss to me,” Feinstein told CBS News. “I…

What’s going on with men these days? This guy may know better than anyone. For some of you reading this, Hasan Piker needs no introduction. He is one of the leading voices in progressive political content online, boasting a massive 2.9 million followers on Twitch alone. He’s polarizing, charismatic, and (kind of) a bro. And his fans love him. Just take this Instagram comment for example: “Not to be dramatic, but I’d die for this man lol.” With all the discourse about young men flocking to the political right because of online commentators like Joe Rogan and Theo Von, some…

Two wildfires burning in the western United States – including one that has become a “megafire” on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon – are so hot that they’re spurring the formation of “fire clouds” that can create their own erratic weather systems. In Arizona, the wind-whipped Dragon Bravo Fire that destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge is 9% contained and has charred more than 164 square miles to become the largest fire now burning in the continental U.S. and one of the top 10 largest in recorded Arizona history. Getting around it would be roughly like driving from New…

But even the ad world isn’t immune to the groundswell of climate organizing. Ad Policy Protesters from Fossil Free London demonstrate outside Barclays Canary Wharf offices as part of the action to disrupt the Energy Intelligence Forum (EIF) summit, a gathering between Shell, Total, Equinor, Saudi Aramco, and other oil giants, being held in central London, England on October 19, 2023.(Lucy North / Getty Images) “Mad Men fueling the madness.” Nodding to the hit American TV show, that’s what UN Secretary General António Guterres last year called the advertising agencies that have “aided and abetted” the fossil fuel industry’s climate…

A CBS News investigation has revealed that China is still secretly buying Iranian oil and evading U.S. sanctions by using what’s known as a “dark fleet” to transfer oil from ship to ship in the middle of the sea.Over the years, the U.S. has implemented heavy sanctions on Iranian industries, including trying to stop tankers used to transfer Iranian oil to China, which could help fund Iranian nuclear development programs. On Wednesday, the Treasury Department imposed additional sanctions, which Washington called the most extensive action of its kind since 2018.Recently, a CBS News crew set off from Singapore, one of…

Most of the more than 109,000 arrests carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the first five months of President Trump’s second term took place in border and Southern states, according to a CBS News analysis of government data.States in the southern U.S., as well as those along the border with Mexico, saw the highest levels of ICE arrests between the start of Mr. Trump’s second term on Jan. 20 and June 27, the figures show. That continued a trend that predates the current administration, though ICE arrests have increased sharply across the country since last year. During the…