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Video Game Hall of Fame nominees announced Reporter’s Notebook: World Video Game Hall of Fame nominees 01:58 Apple has blocked access to the online game Fortnite on iPhone devices in the United States and the European Union, according to the video game maker.”Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release to the U.S. App Store or to the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union,” the Fortnite X account said early Friday morning. Apple did not immediately reply to a request for comment.Fortnite, which is owned by Epic Games, said that the game will be offline worldwide on…

Cultural Contradictions / May 16, 2025 Many of those who were loudest in denouncing cancel culture then are now curiously silent in the face of Donald Trump’s assaults on free speech. Ad Policy Bari Weiss speaks onstage during a book club event with Peggy Noonan on November 19, 2024. in New York City.(Noam Galai / The Free Press via Getty Images) This article appears in the June 2025 issue, with the headline “Who Crashed the Car?” It’s been five years since Harper’s published “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” a cri de coeur signed by 153 public intellectuals that…

Washington — House Republicans have yet to resolve several major disputes that threaten to derail President Trump’s domestic policy bill as more conservative members and blue-state Republicans dig in on their demands. House Speaker Mike Johnson remains committed to putting the legislation, which would extend tax cuts from Mr. Trump’s first term while temporarily enacting new ones, on the floor before Memorial Day. The tax measures, as well as increased spending on the military and border security, would be offset partly by cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and clean energy subsidies. But first, it will have to get through the House Budget…

San Francisco — San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, known to many as a tourist attraction, harbors a small fleet of fishing boats that might otherwise be catching crabs this time of year.However, migrating endangered humpback whales are now swimming in the same waters outside the Golden Gate strait where crabs are, and long lines of rope that fishermen traditionally use to pull up crab cages have entangled too many humpbacks. Since 2007, at least 922 humpback whales have been maimed or killed by these ropes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Fisherman Brand Little is able to keep bringing up his…

Emory University Hospital Midtown is seen on Thursday in Atlanta. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption toggle caption Brynn Anderson/AP ATLANTA — A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her family says a hospital told them was required under the state’s strict anti-abortion law. With her due date still more than three months away, it could be one of the longest such pregnancies. Her family is upset that Georgia’s law that restricts abortion once cardiac activity…

An undocumented immigrant who resides in Florida is facing a more than $1.82 million fine for failing to leave the country after receiving a removal order 20 years ago, CBS News has learned. According to the notice sent May 9 by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s civil fines department and provided to CBS News, the 41-year-old Florida woman and mother of three, who CBS News has chosen not to name, was charged $500 for every day she has remained in the U.S. since the removal order was issued in April 2005, running up a total of $1,821,350.  CBS News has reached…

Former FBI Director James Comey has provoked an outcry from the Trump administration after he briefly posted a photo to Instagram that federal officials alleged was a call for violence against President Trump — a claim Comey pushed back on.The image shared by Comey — a longtime Trump foe — showed seashells in sand arranged to form the numbers “86 47,” according to screenshots shared by Trump administration officials. He did not make his meaning clear, but administration officials and some of his supporters interpreted the numbers as referring to Mr. Trump’s status as the 47th president and the slang term…

President Trump visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque with Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on May 15, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, and RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Trump visited a mosque on Thursday — his first publicly known visit to a Muslim house of worship during his time in office. His visit to the United Arab Emirates’ Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque was just one stop on a larger diplomatic tour through the Middle East, the first major foreign trip of his second…

Increasingly, when lawyers take divisive political issues to court, they seek out federal jurisdictions where they hope to find judges sympathetic to their worldview. This phenomenon, known as venue shopping, has been employed by both sides of the political aisle, according to a new CBS News analysis of federal court data for cases seeking nationwide impact. The analysis suggests that conservatives suing the Biden administration frequently tried to have their cases heard in tiny federal courts in Texas. The lawsuits often landed in courts with just a single judge, helping ensure the first ruling would come from Republican appointees. That the…

A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her family says a hospital told them was required under the state’s strict anti-abortion law.With her due date still more than three months away, it could be one of the longest such pregnancies. Her family is upset that Georgia’s law, which restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected, doesn’t allow relatives to have a say in whether a pregnant woman is kept on life support.Georgia’s “heartbeat law” is…