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France has summoned the U.S. ambassador to Paris after the diplomat, Charles Kushner, wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron alleging the country did not do enough to combat antisemitism.France’s foreign ministry issued a statement Sunday announcing it had summoned Kushner to appear Monday at Quai d’Orsay, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and that his allegations “are unacceptable.””France firmly rejects these allegations,” the statement obtained by CBS News said. “The rise in antisemitic acts in France since October 7, 2023, is a reality we deeply regret and against which the French authorities are fully mobilized, as such acts…

8/24: CBS Weekend News – CBS News Watch CBS News Evacuations ordered in California’s wine country as heatwave fuels wildfire; An anti-aging pill for dogs? Source link

Some National Guard members in Washington, D.C., likely fewer than 50, will be armed starting Sunday night, a military official told CBS News.A spokesperson for the Joint Task Force in the nation’s capital declined to disclose where and when guardsmen will be armed, citing security concerns. “The Secretary of Defense has directed JTF-DC service members to carry their assigned service weapon,” the Joint Task Force in D.C. told CBS News in a statement on Sunday. “Task force personnel operate under the established Rules for the Use of Force, which allow the use of force only as a last resort and solely…

Jerry Adler, who spent decades behind the scenes of storied Broadway productions before pivoting to acting in his 60s, has died at 96. Adler died Saturday, according to a brief family announcement confirmed by the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York. Adler “passed peacefully in his sleep,” Paradigm Talent Agency’s Sarah Shulman said on behalf of his family. No immediate cause was given.Among Adler’s acting credits are “The Sopranos,” on which he played Tony Soprano adviser Hesh Rabkin across all six seasons, and “The Good Wife,” where he played law partner Howard Lyman. But before Adler had ever stepped in front…

Politics / August 22, 2025 The buzzy new publication devoted to “libbing out” reprises the mistakes of the longstanding alliance between neoliberalism and Beltway journalism. Ad Policy Jerusalem Demsas, editor of the newly launched Argument, at a 2024 Atlantic Festival panel(Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images for The Atlantic) This week, a new media venture unveiled itself and staked its claim to a firm defense of liberalism—something that’s apparently in short supply. Under the gently rage-baiting headline, “The left gets a new publication,” Semafor announced that “a group of left-leaning writers and journalists” would be forming an outlet called The Argument.…

Washington — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Sunday that President Trump’s rhetoric on crime is “purely performative” as the president has offered to send troops to Baltimore amid a push to crack down on crime that began in the nation’s capital in recent weeks and could extend to other major cities. “While the President is spending his time from the Oval Office making jabs and attacks at us, there are people actually on the ground doing the work who know what supports would actually work to continue to bring down crime. But it’s falling on deaf ears of the president of…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an agency inside the Department of Homeland Security that is integral to President Donald Trump’s vision of carrying out the mass deportations he promised during the campaign. Deportation officers within a unit called Enforcement and Removal Operations are the ones who are responsible for immigration enforcement. They find and remove people from the United States who aren’t American citizens and, for a variety of reasons, no longer can stay in the country. Source link

On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Maryland Gov. Wes MooreSen. Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New HampshireRep. Mike Lawler, Republican of New York Allianz chief economic adviser Mohamed El-ErianUNICEF executive director Catherine Russell Click here to browse full transcripts from 2025 of “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”   MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m Margaret Brennan in Washington.And this week on Face the Nation: The Trump administration builds up the federal presence in the nation’s capital to crack down on crime, and the president vows to use similar tactics in other U.S. cities. The number of National Guard troops sent…

Politics / August 22, 2025 In ordering a review of the Smithsonian, the White House wants to use its power to remake our culture—or to reinvigorate a strain in the culture that has been dormant for a long time. Ad Policy Visitors walk outside the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery on August 14, 2025.(Alex Wroblewski / AFP) No one knows exactly what will result from Donald Trump’s order of an “internal review of…exhibitions and materials” at the Smithsonian museums. All we know is that the outcome will be ugly. His lament that the institution, “OUT OF…

The following is the transcript of an interview with UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Aug. 24, 2025.MARGARET BRENNAN: We return now to Gaza and that stunning declaration Friday about a monitoring group that Gaza City is experiencing man-made famine, and that those conditions will expand soon. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell joins us now. We want to warn our viewers, there will be some upsetting images in this segment. Executive Director Russell, thank you for joining us. We’ve spoken so many times over the past few years about the catastrophic…