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Politics / August 29, 2025 And here’s how it can be done. Ad Policy A model of the Statue of Liberty stands on a pedestal in Matewan, West Virginia. (Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images) It was April of 2012 when I pulled into the restaurant parking lot in the tiny town of Lebanon, Virginia. I’d recently begun my campaign in the state’s Ninth Congressional District and the folks at the restaurant were there to see what I was about. I recognized the fellow who greeted me as I got out of the car—a retired coal miner who had been to…

Longtime CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller has died at the age of 73.He died in Washington, D.C., according to a close friend. The cause of death was not disclosed, but he suffered from diabetes and had been in ill health.Knoller was, to put it simply, a legend. For decades, everyone in the White House press corps knew him as the unofficial presidential historian and statistician. His frustration over the lack of a central database of daily presidential actions inspired him to take upon himself the enormous burden of keeping meticulous records of every presidential act, movement, and utterance, single-handedly filling an…

More details are emerging after a shooter opened fire at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis during a Mass attended by young students, killing two children and wounding more than a dozen other people. The shooter died by suicide at the church, which is attached to a school building.Eighteen other children and adults were injured in Wednesday’s shooting, which occurred during a Mass marking the beginning of the school year. Here’s what we know about the shooting.  What happened at Annunciation Catholic Church? Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said in a Thursday news conference that the department received calls of shots fired at 8:27…

The White House is asking Congress to take back nearly $5 billion in appropriated foreign aid funds. The timing of the request makes it hard for Congress to weigh in before the end of the fiscal year. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Last night, the White House informed Congress that it plans to cut almost $5 billion that lawmakers had already approved for foreign aid. The White House used a rare maneuver called a pocket rescission. That’s when the government’s request comes so late that Congress doesn’t have enough time to vote on it before the end of the fiscal year. NPR’s…

More than 500 jobs at the Voice of America and other government-funded international broadcasters will be cut, a Trump administration official said. The move could ratchet up a monthslong legal challenge over the news outlets’ fate.Kari Lake, acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announced the latest round of job cuts in a social media post late Friday.”We are conducting this (reduction in force) at the President’s direction to help reduce the federal bureaucracy, improve agency service and save the American people more of their hard-earned money,” Lake said in a statement. “USAGM will continue to fulfill its…

Campaigning for president, Donald Trump assured workers that he would fight for them. “You’re going to have the American Dream back,” he said at his campaign rallies. “We’re going to be in the golden age.” His spokesperson now boasts that under Trump, workers already enjoy “increased job opportunities, better wages, and more bargaining power.” Trump promises his tariffs will produce a renaissance of American manufacturing. Hs unpopular Republican budget bill—which slashes Medicaid and health care to fund tax breaks for the rich—is peddled as providing “working family tax cuts.”Buried beneath the daily barrage of bluster is a systematic, multifront war…

The office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the U.S. government on Saturday to reverse its decision to revoke his visa, weeks before he is meant to appear at the United Nations’ annual meeting and an international conference about creating a Palestinian state.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio rescinded the visas of Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, the State Department disclosed on Friday. Palestinian representatives assigned to the U.N. mission were granted exceptions.The move is the latest in a series of steps the Trump administration has taken to target…

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told CBS News the Trump administration has not communicated with his state on a reported plan to send military forces to Chicago, calling the idea an “invasion” and arguing President Trump has “other aims” aside from cracking down on crime.Asked about a possible military deployment to America’s third-largest city, which was recently reported by The Washington Post, Pritzker told CBS News: “It’s clear that, in secret, they’re planning this — well, it’s an invasion with U.S. troops, if they, in fact, do that.”Mr. Trump has deployed National Guard forces and federal agents to the streets of…

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe, at the Missouri State Fair this month, has called lawmakers to a special session to draw new voting lines sought by President Trump. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Riedel/AP Following President Trump’s request, Missouri Republicans are poised to redraw their state’s congressional lines to help maintain the GOP majority in the U.S. House. Gov. Mike Kehoe announced a special legislative session to draw a new voting map would start next Wednesday. The state is currently represented in Congress by six Republicans and two Democrats. New maps could redistrict voters in the Kansas City area…

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, survivors can still describe in detail what they faced in the days after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast.In New Orleans, many initially thought they had escaped the worst, that is, until the storm surge overwhelmed the levees, breaking the city’s floodwalls. As the days went on, the situation became worse and worse.Hurricane Katrina led to nearly 1,400 deaths, displaced more than a million people and left hundreds of billions of dollars in damage across the Gulf Coast. While the recovery has varied, some people who made it back to New Orleans have found hope in…