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Accompanied by California and Texas lawmakers, California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in support of the Texas Democratic lawmakers for their walkout to block a vote on a congressional redistricting plan sought by President Donald Trump, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Friday Aug. 8, 2025. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption toggle caption Rich Pedroncelli/AP SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democrats in California’s state legislature have released a proposal for a new congressional map that could give their party up to five new seats. It’s a major step forward for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plans and the escalating race between the two major…

Democrats unveiled a proposal Friday that could give California’s dominant political party an additional five U.S. House seats in a bid to win the fight to control Congress next year.The plan calls for an unusually timed reshaping of House district lines to greatly strengthen the Democratic advantage in the state ahead of midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending the party’s fragile House majority. It amounts to a counterpunch to the Texas Republicans’ plan to take five Democratically held seats and redraw them to favor the GOP at the urging of President Trump as he tries to avoid losing control…

Politics / August 15, 2025 Trump compels his followers to endorse obvious lies. It’s accelerating the country’s descent into authoritarianism. Ad Policy Military personnel chat on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on August 14, 2025.(Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images) It was 8 pm, humid, and I was by myself, across the street from where my kids went to elementary school, banging a large metal spoon against a pot. I was alone, because I had gotten the address wrong for a pots-and-pans demonstration against Donald Trump’s military occupation of Washington, DC. What I missed was a cacophonous community…

Erin has strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane as the storm continued on a path over the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters said. Early Friday, it became the first hurricane to develop in the Atlantic this year, and it was expected to continue gaining strength, potentially growing into a major hurricane.Forecasters with the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami have been urging people in the Caribbean islands to monitor Erin’s progress, warning of the potential for heavy rainfall and life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.Erin is not currently forecast to impact the United States, but meteorologists continue to watch it closely.The center…

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin left Alaska Friday without a ceasefire agreement, although both men described the meeting as constructive. In what was billed by the White House as a press conference following their meeting, Mr. Trump and Putin took no questions, ignoring shouted ones from reporters. Putin spoke little of Ukraine, focusing on the bond and heritage between the U.S. and Russia, while Mr. Trump said many points were agreed to, and a few are left, regarding Ukraine. The U.S. president plans to call European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he said. Here is a transcript of what Mr.…

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday after a day of talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Trump has finished his high-stakes summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, and though the two leaders touted progress over ending the war in Ukraine they did not announce any steps toward reaching a ceasefire. After several hours of talks on Friday, the leaders took their positions on a stage behind two lecterns inside…

Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and Mr. Trump’s former rival on the campaign trail, said in a podcast appearance Friday that if Mr. Trump can secure an end to the war in Ukraine without ceding territory to Russia, she would nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize herself. Clinton made the comments on the podcast “Raging Moderates” with Jessica Tarlov. “Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war, where Putin is the aggressor, invading a neighbor country, trying to change the borders — if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it…

In this moment of crisis, we need a unified, progressive opposition to Donald Trump.  We’re starting to see one take shape in the streets and at ballot boxes across the country: from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign focused on affordability, to communities protecting their neighbors from ICE, to the senators opposing arms shipments to Israel.  The Democratic Party has an urgent choice to make: Will it embrace a politics that is principled and popular, or will it continue to insist on losing elections with the out-of-touch elites and consultants that got us here?  At The Nation, we…

The Trump administration has reduced funding for climate research, dismissed federal scientists who worked on the National Climate Assessment, and removed past editions of the report from government websites. Now, critics say, it is taking the next step: rewriting the science itself, according to a lawsuit filed this week by environmental groups.As the Environmental Protection Agency moves to revoke the Endangerment Finding, the 2009 scientific determination that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act, the Department of Energy published a new review of the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on…

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 In her 2015 watercolor “Landscape of Change,” artist-scientist Jill Pelto incorporated data points representing changes in sea level, declines in glacier volume, rising global temperatures, and an increase in the use of fossil fuels.  Jill Pelto COVER STORY: Capturing the melting of glaciers, with data and artFor more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring the shrinking glaciers in the rugged North…