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The scourge of Internet shaming – CBS News Watch CBS News The rise of social media has also brought an increase in Internet shaming – mob justice meted out to shame people on Twitter and Facebook for “bad” behavior. But as David Pogue of Yahoo Finance reports, sometimes the targets of this new form of cyberbullying, or doxxing, are innocent victims of misidentification, such as the college professor wrongly pegged as a racist after a similar-looking man marched with white nationalists in Charlottesville. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not…

Washington — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he is removing every member of a government panel that makes vaccine recommendations. Kennedy said he is “retiring” all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, asserting that it “has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine.” “A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science,” Kennedy, who is a vaccine skeptic, wrote in an opinion piece published by the Wall Street Journal. The members of the committee are independent medical and public health experts who advise and vote on the…

Courtroom ftwitty/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption ftwitty/Getty Images Employment attorney Diane Seltzer has won a closely watched contest to lead the D.C. Bar Association, defeating securities lawyer Brad Bondi in a race with record turnout. Seltzer tallied more than 90 percent of the electronic vote with “no issues or irregularities” in the voting system, D.C. Bar CEO Bob Spagnoletti said in a press call Monday. More than 38,000 people voted in the race, more than five times as many voters in a typical election, he said. “Member engagement in this election was, to say the least, extraordinary,” Spagnoletti said.…

Four executions are expected to take place in the United States this week, with two scheduled Tuesday and one each on Thursday and Friday. The executions were ordered in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina. If all of the procedures are carried out as planned, the inmates’ deaths will bring the national total of executions to 23 so far this year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center which tracks the number. In 2024, there were 25 executions across the U.S.While four inmates being scheduled to die in the same week is not an anomaly in the U.S., their executions present…

Town Called Malice / June 9, 2025 The Trump administration’s rhetoric echoes the same old fantasy of racial purity that animated the 20th-century right. Ad Policy This article appears in the July/August 2025 issue, with the headline “The Civilization Myth.” Afrikaners from South Africa arrived Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP Photo) On an otherwise unremarkable spring day, the Trump administration’s lawless assault on the rights of immigrants was interrupted by a government-chartered plane landing at Dulles International Airport. In a revealing reverse-image set piece, some 50 white Afrikaner immigrants from South Africa had…

Washington — Oklahoma’s attorney general said Monday that the state plans to retry inmate Richard Glossip for the murder of his boss after the Supreme Court earlier this year granted him a new trial, but will not seek the death penalty against him.Gentner Drummond, the state’s top prosecutor, said in a statement that his office does not intend to dismiss the existing first-degree murder charge brought against Glossip for the 1997 killing of Barry Van Treese, the owner of the Oklahoma City motel where Glossip worked.Instead, the attorney general said his office will seek a sentence of life in prison…

As tensions escalate between California and the Trump administration over immigration, another potential battlefront is emerging over taxes. The spat began with reports that the Trump administration is considering cutting funding for California’s university system, the largest higher education system in the nation with about 12% of all U.S. enrolled students. In response, Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote Friday afternoon in a social media post that California provides about $80 billion more in taxes to the federal government than it receives in return. “Maybe it’s time to cut that off, @realDonaldTrump,” Newsom said.What is a donor state?A donor state is one that provides more…

Donald Trump invoked emergency powers more times in his first 100 days in office than any other modern president has done during the same time period. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The United States is currently dealing with multiple emergencies at once, according to President Trump’s administration. There’s a national emergency at the southern border, an energy emergency and an economic emergency, to name a few — and the president has used these to enact some of his most wide-reaching policies, from pushing fossil fuel production to seeking to complete the…

California’s governor indicated late Sunday his office plans to sue the Trump administration after the state’s National Guard was deployed to confront protesters in Los Angeles.”Donald Trump is putting fuel on this fire. Commandeering a state’s National Guard without consulting the Governor of that state is illegal and immoral,” wrote Gavin Newsom on X. “California will be taking him to court.”In a followup on Monday morning, Newsom posted Mr. Trump “illegally acted to federalize the National Guard,” adding “we’re suing him.” National Guard troops were sent to downtown Los Angeles Sunday amid a weekend marked by protests and at-time violent clashes…

Forget the midterms. The fight to bring Trumpism down runs through 2025’s elections. Illustration by Tim Robinson. This article appears in the July/August 2025 issue, with the headline “Turnout or Bust?” Yasmine Taeb lives in the great expanse of suburban counties that spreads out to the south and west of Washington, DC, to form NoVA, the most populous region of Virginia. NoVA (short for “Northern Virginia”) is where counties and cities are named for the dukes and earls of colonial times—Prince William, Fairfax, Culpepper. It’s where the plantations of founding fathers and presidents are now tourist sites and where Civil…