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The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday afternoon that it is eliminating its scientific division, known as the Office of Research and Development.The move to shutter the ORD comes one day after the agency said it was undergoing a reorganization involving several other EPA divisions. ORD conducts critical research to “safeguard human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants,” according to its website. More than 1,500 employees, including scientists and researchers, are dispersed across the country at 11 different locations, but the bulk are based at the EPA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and at a large scientific facility in Research Triangle Park, North…

President Trump says he’s already ended several conflicts around the globe and is working to conclude several more. We look at his approach to foreign policy. AILSA CHANG, HOST: President Trump says he has already ended several conflicts around the globe and that he is working to conclude several more. He’s doing that by applying his love of cutting deals to global relationships. Like, take the war between Russia and Ukraine. Just this week, he threw his support behind a deal for new weapons for Ukrainian defense. But this is what he said when he was asked if the decision…

Americans on space race support Americans on whether the U.S. should return to the moon, travel to Mars 06:57 There is a lot of public favor for the idea of the U.S. returning to the moon, and also for eventually going to Mars. About two-thirds do, while a third does not.  Younger Americans who are not old enough to remember the first moon landing are especially in favor, perhaps looking forward to seeing that exploration in their lifetimes. These views generally cut across ideological and party lines, as well. The first moon landing in 1969 continues to loom large in…

July 18, 2025 She’s running on a populist economic message that puts affordability of care at its heart and mobilized young grassroots organizers. Ad Policy Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson speaks to canvassers in South Seattle, Washington on July 12, 2025(Courtesy of Katie Wilson For Mayor) Zohran Mamdani’s victory wasn’t a fluke. Right now, it is being built upon in Seattle, three time zones from the Big Apple. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has been gliding along a path toward reelection. He has garnered the support of developers and tech oligarchs. All the opinion leaders are along for the ride with…

President Trump on Friday filed a libel lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal’s publisher and its leader, Rupert Murdoch, after the paper published a story on what it called a “bawdy” birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that the paper alleged was signed by Mr. Trump.The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of Florida, seeks at least $10 billion in damages. It alleges the paper’s claims were “false, defamatory, unsubstantiated, and disparaging,” and accuses the Journal of “clear journalistic failures.”The paper claimed the letter, from the early 2000s, featured Mr. Trump’s signature as well as a birthday message and a drawing…

Los Angeles — One construction site in Los Angeles has just about everything needed to build a traditional family home. Everything, that is, except enough workers. “We have probably three people on site, four people on site, and normally, we’d have about double, about eight to 10 people,” general contractor Jason Pietruszka told CBS News. “They’re hiding. People aren’t will to coming to work.” Pietruszka said he only hires builders here in the country legally, but that he also relies on companies that employ highly skilled, undocumented labor. Many of those workers are now no-shows because they are fearful of the ramped-up…

Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar warns that a move to redraw Texas congressional districts will undermine democracy in the Lone Star State and beyond. Ad Policy Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar.(Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) President Trump and his Republican cronies are aware that their “One Big Beautiful Bill” is polling miserably with an electorate that, by most accounts, really hates it when the government guts Medicaid and anti-hunger programs in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires. The unpopularity of the GOP’s signature legislative effort could spell disaster for the party’s efforts to maintain…

Washington — Ten Americans are en route to the U.S. after a prisoner swap involving the U.S., El Salvador and Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday.The Americans were freed from Venezuela in exchange for El Salvador returning 252 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran prison earlier this year, senior administration officials said, alleging the released Venezuelans were members of the gang Tren de Aragua.A former Navy SEAL, Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, is among the Americans released, three sources told CBS News. Castaneda was detained in Venezuela last year while on personal travel. “We have prayed…

The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.  “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.)  Hosted by Jane Pauley An introvert unhappy with the box she found herself in, writer Olga Khazan consciously strived to redesign her personality.  CBS News COVER STORY: The science of redesigning your personalityWriter Olga Khazan was unhappy with the person she was – anxious, obsessed with work, unable to have fun, and constantly worried about things. And when therapy, medications and self-care failed to work for her, Khazan…

House Republicans delivered a major victory to President Trump early Friday, passing Trump’s rescissions bill that claws back $9 billion in funds already approved for public media and foreign aid. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A narrow majority in Congress took another step in ceding their power to the president.MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Constitution gives Congress authority over government spending. But at the president’s request, they overturned spending they’d previously agreed to for foreign aid and public broadcasting. The request was more of a demand. He’d threatened consequences for lawmakers who didn’t go along. Some voted in favor while publicly expressing concern…