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Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference on tariffs, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in Washington. Mariam Zuhaib/AP hide caption toggle caption Mariam Zuhaib/AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate left Washington Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees, calling it quits after days of contentious bipartisan negotiations and Trump posting on social media that Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer can “GO TO HELL!” Without a deal in hand, Republicans say they may try to change Senate rules when they return in September to speed up…

Washington – The Senate on Saturday approved the nomination of Jeanine Pirro, an ardent loyalist of President Trump and a Fox News fixture, confirming the cable news personality to a top prosecutor post in Washington, D.C.Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, was confirmed in a 50-45 vote. She has been in the job as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on an acting basis since May. Before then, she co-hosted “The Five” on Fox News on weekday evenings, where she frequently interviewed Mr. Trump.The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia is a powerful position with a…

The former Tonight Show host thinks a dose of bothsidesism will punch up the late-night scene. Ad Policy Jay Leno at the 2021 Britweek Luxury Car Rally in Los Angeles(Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Images) Why is it that every time a great late night host loses a job, Jay Leno appears? Back in the 1990s, when David Letterman lost out on hosting The Tonight Show, Leno was there to claim victory. When Conan O’Brien briefly replaced Leno and then got fired from The Tonight Show, Leno was there to take his old job back. This month, CBS fired arch–Trump critic…

This story was originally posted in Aug. 11, 2017. It was updated on Aug. 2, 2025.Shayna Glassman knows her family does not want her to write and visit with David Berkowitz, the infamous “Son of Sam” serial killer. “My family told me, ‘Shayna — don’t pursue this,'” she said.And she certainly knows how her deceased father would feel. “A relative told me, ‘Your dad would be so mad at you,'” Shayna Glassman said.But more than anything, she is painfully aware that she’s Berkowitz’ “type.” “I would have been his prime target,” she told CBS News in 2017. “I’m a young,…

Appeals court mostly keeps restrictions on Southern California ICE patrols – CBS News Watch CBS News Los Angeles officials are praising an appeals court ruling limiting immigration stops, but the decision may only escalate a battle over transparency and control. Elise Preston has the latest information. Source link

Ad Policy Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, US, on Saturday, July 27, 2024. (Brett Carlsen / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire’s Islamophobic attack on Zohran Mamdani, what it tells us about the state of tech’s politics, and how Donald Trump is enriching himself through crypto scams. Jacob Silverman is a journalist and the author of the forthcoming book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. Subscribe to The Nation to support all of our podcasts: thenation.com/podcastsubscribe. Subscribe to The…

The Office of the Special Counsel has launched an investigation into Jack Smith, the former special counsel who investigated President Trump before he returned to office, for alleged illegal political activity.The independent federal agency confirmed to CBS News on Saturday that it has launched an investigation into Smith for potential violations of the Hatch Act, a federal law that “limits certain political activities of federal employees.” The New York Post was first to report on the investigation into Smith.Smith was appointed by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 to take over two investigations into Mr. Trump’s handling of classified…

An appeals court late Friday mostly kept in place restrictions on “roving” immigration raids in the Los Angeles area, agreeing with a lower court judge who found that sweeps conducted by the Trump administration in Southern California appeared to have been predicated on people’s race and other factors, like speaking Spanish.A panel of judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit largely denied a Trump administration request to suspend the lower court ruling, which required federal immigration officials to have reasonable suspicion that someone is in the country illegally before detaining them.The immigration raids at the center…

A screenshot from Sydney Sweeney’s controversial ad that has since been deleted from American Eagle’s social media. American Eagle hide caption toggle caption American Eagle As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we’re also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides the connective tissue for spirited interactions and growing deeper bonds with each other. What are you going to bring up at the dinner table to get the conversation flowing? Did you read that article everybody has been talking about, too? Who or what is it? This week,…

At 42, Tameka Bostick decided she wanted to learn how to swim. Bostick said she tried to sign her teenager up for lessons, too, but her daughter said she wanted her mother to learn to swim first. “‘Ma, you do it first and see how it is, and then I’ll do it,'” Bostick recalled to CBS News right before starting her beginner swim class in Westbury, New York, run by the not-for-profit organization Black People Will Swim. “I did want to learn how to swim, so I was like, ‘You know what? I’ll do it.'”Bostick said she grew up in New…