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President Trump suggested Friday he may try to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, calling the central bank leader a “Total and Complete Moron” for leaving interest rates steady.The president has been lashing out against Powell for months, criticizing the central banker — whom Mr. Trump appointed in his first term — for not lowering interest rates at a faster pace. It’s unclear whether the president is legally allowed to fire Powell before his term ends in May 2026, and Mr. Trump said in April he has “no intention” of doing so.But in a post criticizing Powell on Friday, Mr.…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on during a cabinet meeting with President Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House on April 10. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has issued a preliminary injunction ordering top national security officials who discussed military operations on the encrypted messaging service Signal to notify the acting archivist of the United States of any messages they have that may be at risk of being deleted. But in calling for those records to be preserved, the ruling stopped short…

After years of teasing a new line of self-driving vehicles, billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk is finally making good on his promise with the rollout of Tesla’s robotaxi service. When is the robotaxi event?This Sunday, June 22, Tesla will give a select group of people the chance to ride in its Model Y Robotaxis  in Austin, Texas, where the EV maker moved its headquarters from California in 2021. Tesla did not respond to CBS MoneyWatch’s email seeking information about the launch. However, details shared on social media and past comments from Musk offer some clues as to what it will look like.Where…

Every day, The Nation exposes the administration’s unchecked and reckless abuses of power through clear-eyed, uncompromising independent journalism—the kind of journalism that holds the powerful to account and helps build alternatives to the world we live in now.  We have just the right people to confront this moment. Speaking on Democracy Now!, Nation DC Bureau chief Chris Lehmann translated the complex terms of the budget bill into the plain truth, describing it as “the single largest upward redistribution of wealth effectuated by any piece of legislation in our history.” In the pages of the June print issue and on The…

Washington — Vice President JD Vance arrived in Los Angeles on Friday to tour a federal law enforcement operations center and meet with Marines on the ground, making him the highest-ranking Trump administration official to visit the area since protests broke out over Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. The vice president’s office said he will tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center and a federal mobile command center, as well as meet with leadership and Marines on the ground. He’ll also deliver brief remarks.President Trump federalized thousands of troops from the California National Guard in response to the Los Angeles-area protests…

A brutal heat wave is in the forecast across the eastern United States, and it’s expected to bring several days of record high temperatures at the start of the weekend and into next week. The National Weather Service has called it “the first significant heat wave this season.”Temperatures are expected to soar more than 25-35 degrees above average in the Plains on Friday, CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan said. Potential daily record highs are also forecast for parts of the Rockies and Plains on Friday and Saturday, then temperatures well into the 90s will reach the mid-Atlantic and Northeast and…

Republicans are proposing changes that could result in some children and families losing access to health care, food benefits and financial assistance. Annie Otzen/Moment RF via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Annie Otzen/Moment RF via Getty Images Low-income children and families would be among the groups hit hardest by Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act. While the bill would be a boon to wealthy Americans, it would scale back resources for the nation’s poorest households, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warned in a recent letter to lawmakers. In an effort to pay for an extension of the 2017…

Forum Books We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.After losing a Republican primary in 2010, Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski – bucking party orthodoxy – ran for re-election with a write-in campaign, and won. That victory, thanks to a diverse coalition of Alaskans, instructed her service as a senator in an increasingly partisan Washington, she writes in her new memoir, “Far From Home: An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, D.C.” (to be published June 24 by Forum Books). Read an excerpt below, and don’t miss Norah O’Donnell’s interview with Lisa Murkowski on…

The Louisiana Republican knew better than to vote for public health enemy RFK Jr. He did it anyway. Ad Policy Senators Bill Cassidy (R-A) left, and John Cornyn (R-TX) are seen after the Senate luncheons in the US Capitol on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.(Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Over 10 years ago, a Republican congressman named Bill Cassidy attended a ribbon-cutting at Westdale Middle School in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. The celebration was to honor the renovation of three local school-based health centers, made possible by a federal grant from the US Health and Human…

“Something hard bit me and then tried to tug me away”: 9-year-old speaks after shark attack – CBS News Watch CBS News Leah Lendel is recovering after a shark bit her hand off the coast of Boca Grande. With bait fish in abundance, marine experts say shark encounters may rise, but the odds of attacks remain low. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link