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Hall of Fame Chicago Cubs slugger and second baseman Ryne Sandberg has died, following a battle with prostate cancer. Sandberg died Monday, July 28, the Cubs confirmed. He was 65 years old. “Ryne Sandberg was a hero to a generation of Chicago Cubs fans and will be remembered as one of the all-time greats in nearly 150 years of this historic franchise,” Cubs executive chairman Tom Ricketts said in a statement. “His dedication to and respect for the game, along with his unrelenting integrity, grit, hustle, and competitive fire were hallmarks of his career. He was immensely proud of his…

Rather than deporting millions of migrants, this Republican president opted for the opposite strategy—legalizing them. Ad Policy Ronald Reagan signing the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act(Bettmann / Getty Images) The number of illegal aliens in America had risen to an alarming level, and the Republican president in the White House was determined to take strong action. But rather than deporting millions of migrants, this Republican president opted for the opposite strategy: legalizing them. Ronald Reagan is not known for his compassion toward the less fortunate. This is the president who struck 400,000 families off the aid rolls and made…

Two top Justice Department antitrust officials have been ousted, multiple sources told CBS News. Monday’s firings follow internal tension CBS News previously reported on within the Justice Department’s antitrust division, which investigates companies for anticompetitive behavior and sues to prevent monopolies.The officials, Roger Alford and Bill Rinner, were both top deputies to Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater, who leads the team. Alford was principal deputy assistant attorney general and Rinner served as a deputy assistant attorney general and head of merger enforcement. Both officials served in the antitrust division during President Trump’s first term.It was unclear why they were fired, but…

A previously disclosed hack affecting Tea, a women-only dating advice app, was more extensive than previously thought, the company said Monday. Tea’s investigation of the incident found that app users’ direct messages had been breached, along with some of their photos. “Out of an abundance of caution, we have taken the affected system offline,” Tea said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch.The app, which has become one of Apple’s most downloaded free apps, was compromised in a cyberattack that exposed members’ personal information, including selfies, Tea said Friday. The hackers accessed a data storage system containing information that members had uploaded prior…

A coalition of states is suing the federal government to prevent it from gathering personal data on tens of millions of people who receive food assistance. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images A coalition of 20 states and Washington, D.C. announced a new lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture after the federal agency told states to turn over the detailed, personal information of food assistance applicants and their household members. The USDA has told states they have until July 30 to turn over data about all applicants to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or…

The new trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union will lift tariffs on imports of goods from EU countries to their highest level in decades and hurt the trading bloc’s economic growth, according to some experts.  “It is an asymmetric and unbalanced deal,” economists with investment bank Société Générale said in a report. The EU decided neither to retaliate nor to increase its tariffs, and is even expected to reduce them. The EU agreed to a bad deal rather than risk trade war escalation.” The average tariff on U.S. imports from the EU will surge from 1.2% in 2024…

The doom-obsessed Democratic Party remains as unpopular as ever—but there is another path. Ad Policy Keeping hope alive: If he wins and governs well, Mamdani will join a wave of progressive mayors who are renewing the promise of urban America.(Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images) Current American politics is a dismal race between two sinking ships heading to the bottom of the sea. Donald Trump, never a widely loved figure and only president because he positioned himself as the alternative to an unpopular status quo, has again made himself an intensely despised president in record time. As Gallup reported on…

A former Ohio police officer convicted in the shooting death of Andre Hill, a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed, was given a mandatory sentence of 15 years to life on Monday.Former Columbus police officer Adam Coy shot Hill four times in a garage in December 2020 as the country reckoned with a series of police killings of Black men, women and children. He told jurors that he feared for his life because he thought Hill was holding a silver revolver.”I knew at that point I made a mistake,” Coy told jurors in…

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced he’s running for Senate Monday, in a bid to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, who was up for reelection in 2026 and recently said he’d retire at the end of his term. File: North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper speaks onstage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 22, 2024 in Chicago.  Andrew Harnik / Getty Images In a video post, Cooper, a Democrat, portrayed his campaign as a fight to save the middle class. “Today, for too many Americans, the middle class feels like a…

Republicans won the 2024 election through a strategy that included an enormous number of podcast appearances. Now, Democrats are debating their future election strategy, and a lot of the discussion is taking place on podcasts. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has been talking for months on NPR and elsewhere about a Democratic party that’s more populist–attacking parts of the political system that don’t work for most people, and more loudly pushing back against the Trump administration. Rahm Emanuel, a longtime party leader, went on Megyn Kelly’s podcast and rejected some party orthodoxy on social issues. The authors Ezra Klein and…