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Penguin Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.”Mark Twain” (Penguin Press), the latest book from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant, examines the life of one of America’s greatest and most beloved writers. Read an excerpt below, and don’t miss Robert Costa’s interview with Ron Chernow on “CBS Sunday Morning” July 6!”Mark Twain” by Ron Chernow Prefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now. PreludeThe Pilot HouseFrom the time he was a small boy in Hannibal, Missouri, the Mississippi River had signified…

Two American aid workers with the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation were injured in southern Gaza in an attack at a food distribution site on Saturday. The organization claimed the attack was carried out by Hamas but did not provide further evidence. The GHF said assailants threw grenades at a distribution site in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. The foundation later posted a photo of the fragments of the explosive device and claimed, without providing evidence, that it was detonated by Hamas militants. It said the injuries were not life-threatening, and the two men received medical attention.Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes killed…

The Trump administration said it deported a group of eight men convicted of serious crimes in the United States to the conflict-ridden African country of South Sudan, following a weeks-long legal saga that had kept the deportees in a military base in Djibouti for weeks.Assistant Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the deportation flight carrying the deportees landed in South Sudan just before midnight EST on Friday. A photo provided by the department showed the deportees, with their hands and feet shackled, sitting inside an aircraft, guarded by U.S. service members. Eight men from Asia and Latin America…

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.)  Guest host: Mo Rocca    HEADLINES: Texas flooding        A view of the Statue of Liberty. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images COVER STORY: How Lady Liberty became a beacon for immigrantsThe Statue of Liberty, France’s gift to the United States, was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma Lazarus reimagined Lady Liberty as a “mother of exiles,” welcoming immigrants to…

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport a group of migrants with criminal records held at a U.S. naval base in Djibouti, clarifying the scope of its earlier order that lifted restrictions on removals to countries that are not deportees’ places of origin.Shortly after the ruling, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin announced, “these sickos will be in South Sudan by Independence Day,” calling it a “win for the rule of law.”In a social media post Thursday evening in response to the ruling, Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote, “Yet another…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., along with the House Democratic Caucus, assemble on the Capitol steps to rail against President Trump’s signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on July 2. Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Democrats feel that President Trump’s massive tax-and-spending bill is giving them an opening — and a message — ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The focus is Medicaid, which provides health insurance for tens of millions of lower-income and elderly Americans, and affordability. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in…

Waterbury, Connecticut — There is a controversial law in Connecticut that allows tow truck companies to sell the cars they tow after just 15 days. Critics of the law call it predatory and say private tow truck operators are targeting working class neighborhoods.Paul Boudreau and Greta Blau of Waterbury, Connecticut, had their car towed in 2021. “They said it was because the registration was expired,” Boudreau said. “DMV had just reopened at that point, there was about a six- to 10-week wait to register a car even.”  A few weeks later they found out their car was going to be sold.”And…

The Hamas terrorist group said Friday it has issued a “positive response” to a U.S.-mediated ceasefire proposal in its war with Israel.In a post to Telegram, Hamas said it “submitted a positive response to the mediators’ latest proposal.”It added that it was “fully prepared to immediately enter into a round of negotiations on the mechanism for implementing this framework,” according to a translation of the post. On Tuesday, President Trump announced that Israel had agreed to a proposal for a two-month ceasefire. At the time, neither Israel nor Hamas confirmed Mr. Trump’s statement. “I think it’s been very positive, a good response,”…

Georgia authorities on alert for impaired boating Georgia authorities on alert for impaired boating on popular lake 02:04 A boat explosion Friday evening on popular Lake Lanier in Georgia left at least five people injured, officials said. Fire crews responded to reports of a boat explosion at about 7 p.m. ET to find a boat ablaze with 5-foot-high flames and five people injured at the scene, Hall County Fire Rescue said in a news release. Cell phone video showed black smoke and heavy flames billowing into the air from the boat, as boaters from several other nearby vessels looked on. Four…

As Congress was approving President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on Thursday, the Social Security Administration touted the legislation by stating that it “eliminates federal income taxes on Social Security benefits for most beneficiaries.”That claim, which echoes previous promises by Mr. Trump to remove taxes on Social Security, may have come as welcome news for the millions of older and disabled people who depend on the program for income. So does the bill deliver? Not entirely. In a press release, SSA said that the tax and spending package, which the president is set to sign into law on Friday, “ensures that nearly 90% of…