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Typewriters making a comeback, thanks in part to Taylor Swift – CBS News Watch CBS News A relic of the past is making noise again in the digital age. In tonight’s Weekend Journal, CBS News’ Itay Hod shows us how the humble typewriter hasn’t pounded out its last words. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

President Donald Trump arrives to give a commencement address at the University of Alabama, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/AP President Trump — when asked if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution on “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” — said, “I don’t know,” but added that his lawyers “are obviously going to follow what the Supreme Court said.” The response came after a series of questions regarding the right to due process for people living in the United States and the Fifth Amendment.…

A former assistant admissions director at Emmanuel College in Boston was arrested Friday and accused of soliciting an underage applicant for sex, the Justice Department said.Prosecutors charged the director, Jacob Henriques, 29, with one count of attempted sex trafficking of a minor after he used his position to gain access to the personal information of admitted and prospective students, and tried to solicit them for sex, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Massachusetts.In a statement, Emmanuel College said that it fired Mr. Henriques after contacting law enforcement and starting an investigation. “Emmanuel…

5/4: Face the Nation – CBS News Watch CBS News This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger join as President Trump signed an executive order cutting their funding. Plus, Sen. Tammy Duckworth discusses the Trump administration’s national security moves. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link

Politics / April 28, 2025 The group has recruited Donavan McKinney, a 32-year-old Detroiter, to unseat incumbent Representative Shri Thanedar. Ad Policy Donavan McKinney.(Courtesy of the McKinney campaign) Justice Democrats, the progressive group best known for helping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the Squad win elected office, announced on Monday that it is backing its first primary challenger of a sitting Democrat since the 2021–22 cycle: Michigan state Representative Donavan McKinney. Representative McKinney, a 32-year-old lifelong Detroit resident, is running in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District against incumbent Shri Thanedar, a millionaire who has held the seat since 2023. “I…

Sybil Shainwald, a lawyer who for nearly half a century represented women whose health had been irreparably and often catastrophically harmed by poorly tested drugs and medical devices, died on April 9 at her home in Manhattan. She was 96.Her daughter Laurie Shainwald Kleeger announced the death, which was not widely reported.Ms. Shainwald was 48 years old and newly graduated from law school when she was hired at Julien, Schlesinger & Finz, a New York City law firm, and assigned to the team representing Joyce Bichler, a 25-year-old social worker who was the survivor of a rare cancer, clear-cell adenocarcinoma…

President Trump said he would talk to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney about making Canada the 51st state. But the president said he didn’t expect it to get to the point of using military force — though he wouldn’t commit to the same for Greenland. “Something could happen with Greenland, I’ll be honest,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that aired on Sunday.  He said that “we need that for national and international security,” but he added “I don’t see it with Canada. I just don’t see it.”Mr. Trump has repeatedly vowed to secure U.S. control…

President Trump said in an interview that aired on Sunday that he did not know whether every person on American soil was entitled to due process, despite constitutional guarantees, and complained that adhering to that principle would result in an unmanageable slowdown of his mass deportation program.The revealing exchange, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” was prompted by the interviewer Kristen Welker asking Mr. Trump if he agreed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio that citizens and noncitizens in the United States were entitled to due process.“I don’t know,” Mr. Trump replied. “I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.”Ms.…

The public library is one of the biggest civic buildings in Fairhope, Ala. Almost every day across its 40,000 square feet in the heart of downtown, retirees gather for book club in the auditorium, teenagers play chess upstairs, and toddlers learn their letters at story time. Its light-filled reading room features a vaulted ceiling that rises above a stained glass depiction of two owls poring over a book.The library records more than 180,000 annual visits, one of the highest figures in Alabama, in a city of 25,000. It has been called Fairhope’s Taj Mahal.Now, it is also a battleground. Residents…

Washington — Sen. Tammy Duckworth said Sunday that she expects Mike Waltz to have a “brutal hearing” for U.N. ambassador after his surprise departure last week from his post as President Trump’s national security adviser.”He’s not qualified for the job, just by nature of the fact that he participated in this Signal chain,” Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.” Duckworth argued that everyone in the group chat where the timing and targets of an attack on Houthis in Yemen was shared and was revealed in March to have inadvertently included a journalist, should be fired,…